You Are the Writer

From the pages of the book

• “I am human, and I think nothing human is alien to me” — Terence
• “The unexamined life is not worth living” — Socrates
• “If you do not busy the soul with what is true, it will busy you with what is false” — Imam al-Shafi‘i
• “The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a Heav’n of Hell, a Hell of Heav’n” — John Milton
• “I think, therefore I am” — René Descartes
• “Learning without thought is labour lost; thought without learning is perilous” — Confucius
• “Have courage to use your own understanding! That is the motto of enlightenment” — Immanuel Kant
• “Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced” — James Baldwin
• “Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in” — Robert Frost
• “Farewell to this world, if there is in it no true friend — faithful to his word, and just” — Imam al-Shafi‘i
• “A friend is a single soul dwelling in two bodies” — Aristotle
• “Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world” — Percy Bysshe Shelley
• “You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give” — Kahlil Gibran
• “There is no wealth like the mind, and no poverty like ignorance” — Ali ibn Abi Talib
• “Life is not what one lived, but what one remembers and how one remembers it in order to recount it” — Gabriel García Márquez
• “In the fields of observation, chance favours only the prepared mind” — Louis Pasteur
• “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes” — Marcel Proust
• “We do not remember days, we remember moments” — Cesare Pavese
• “Tears at times have the weight of speech” — Ovid
• “Fear does not prevent death; it prevents life” — Naguib Mahfouz
• “When my censure comes from one who is lacking, it is proof that I am whole” — Al-Mutanabbi
• “Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless” — Mother Teresa
• “When the mind is complete, words grow few” — Ali ibn Abi Talib
• “We have two ears and one mouth, so that we may listen more and speak less” — Zeno of Citium
• “Speech is the mirror of the soul: as a man speaks, so is he” — Publilius Syrus
• “Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom” — Thomas Jefferson
• “Hearts are the vessels of secrets; lips are their locks, and tongues their keys” — Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz
• “The good of your affairs returns to character; so set the soul right by character, and it will stand upright” — Ahmed Shawqi
• “When you venture after a coveted glory, settle for nothing short of the stars” — Al-Mutanabbi
• “Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one” — Malcolm Forbes
• “As long as you live, keep learning how to live” — Seneca
• “Who strives, finds; who sows, reaps” — Arabic proverb
• “They can because they think they can” — Virgil
• “Whoever shrinks from climbing mountains will live forever among the hollows” — Abu al-Qasim al-Shabbi
• “After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb” — Nelson Mandela
• “A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step” — Lao Tzu
• “One whose beginning burns will find an ending that shines” — Ibn ‘Ata’illah al-Iskandari
• “Earth laughs in flowers” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
• “If you gaze long at a rose, no storm will move you” — Mahmoud Darwish
• “Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass” — Anton Chekhov