3,134 Quotes About Life-and-living

You have to know that I'm leaving because of New York, not you. You know why I don't want to live here. I don't want to hustle 24/7 just to make rent.

Perhaps memory is not merely the preservation of a moment in the mind, but the process of repeatedly returning to it, carefully breaking it up in parts and assembling them again until we can make sense of what we remember.

Knowing and being able to predict everything would make life lose its charm.

But there IS a moral to the story, my dears. It’s this: I hope you’ll always follow your dreams—and settle for nothing less than whatever is the best for you.

هذا المسرح من الظّلال السّوداء, وسط غرفةٍ مضاءة من الّليل. وكان نظري يتيه من واجهة إلى واجهة فأقول لنفسي, وأنا منفعلة بدفء المساء " سوفَ أعيش قريباً كما أريد

People hate it when you play and win by their rules.

This room was our ivory tower, Sihem and mine. No one else was ever admitted here. Sometimes we'de come here to commune with our silence and reactivate our senses, dulled and blunted by the noises of every day. We'd bring a book or put on some music, and then we were off. We read Kafka as well as Khalil Gibran, and listened to Oum Kalthoum and Pavarotti with the same grattitude....

Every answer begins with a question.

If the collective life which results from our individual money-making is not richer, more interesting and more stimulating than that of countries where the individual effort is less intense, then it looks as if there were something wrong about our method.