Bassam's Blog

• 2012-03-28

  لا نيأس لأن اليأس محرم في ديننا.
  We never lose hope, because losing hope is forbidden in our religion.

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  الشيخ علي الطنطاوي - رحمه الله

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  Ali Al-Tantawi

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  The heresy of heresies was common sense.

  — George Orwell (1984)

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  Children aren’t coloring books. You don’t get to fill them with your favorite colors.

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  Khaled Hosseini

• 2012-03-25

  I love thee, and ‘tis my love that speaks

  — 

  William Shakespeare (The Merchant of Venice)

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  The Age At Which It Happens

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  One day, you realise that there are some people you’ll never see again. At least, not in the same way.

  Source: officialiwrotethisforyou

• 2012-03-24

  If greatness of purpose, smallness of means, and astounding results are the three criteria of human genius, who could dare to compare any great man in modern history with Muhammad?

  — Alphonse de Lamartine (Histoire de la Turquie, 1854)

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  All You Who Sleep Tonight

  All you who sleep tonight

  Far from the ones you love,
  No hand to left or right
  And emptiness above -

  Know that you aren’t alone.
  The whole world shares your tears,
  Some for two nights or one,
  And some for all their years.

  
  By Vikram Seth

  Source: eating-poetry

• 2012-03-23

  

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  Source: foreign-lands

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  aseaofquotes:

  Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles

  Source: aseaofquotes

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  Treachery and violence are spears pointed at both ends: they wound those who resort to them worse than their enemies.

  — Emily Brontë (Wuthering Heights)