Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.
If you are going through hell, keep going.
I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.
Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
Fear is a phoenix. You can watch it burn a thousand times and still it will return.
Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.
Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering.
أي علم هذا الذي لم يستطع حتى الآن أن يضع أصوات من نحب في أقراص ، أو زجاجة دواء نتناولها سرًّا ، عندما نصاب بوعكة عاطفية بدون أن يدري صاحبها كم نحن نحتاجه
Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you…
The meek may inherit the earth, but at the moment it belongs to the conceited. Like me.
Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.
Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.
because nerds like us are allowed to be unironically enthusiastic about stuff. Nerds are allowed to love stuff, like jump-up-and-down-in-the-chair-can’t-control-yourself love it. Hank, when people call people nerds, mostly what they’re saying is ‘you like stuff.’ Which is just not a good insult at all. Like, ‘you are too enthusiastic about the miracle of human consciousness’.
It is better, I think, to grab at the stars than to sit flustered because you know you cannot reach them.
If, then, I were asked for the most important advice I could give, that which I considered to be the most useful to the men of our century, I should simply say: in the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
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