Words worth keeping

Listen with curiosity. Speak with honesty. Act with integrity. The greatest problem with communication is we don’t listen to understand. We listen to reply. When we listen with curiosity, we don’t listen with the intent to reply. We listen for what’s behind the words.

Happiness is not the absence of problems, it's the ability to deal with them.

He is half of my soul, as the poets say.

I just want you to know that you’re very special… and the only reason I’m telling you is that I don’t know if anyone else ever has.

The soul is healed by being with children.

مش مهم انك تغير الكون... المهم انك تخلي الكون ما يغيركش

To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,To the last syllable of recorded time;And all our yesterdays have lighted foolsThe way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,And then is heard no more. It is a taleTold by an idiot, full of sound and fury,Signifying nothing.

Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.

Trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.

Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.

The question is not what you look at, but what you see.

We can't be afraid of change. You may feel very secure in the pond that you are in, but if you never venture out of it, you will never know that there is such a thing as an ocean, a sea. Holding onto something that is good for you now, may be the very reason why you don't have something better.

I’ve been fighting to be who I am all my life. What’s the point of being who I am, if I can’t have the person who was worth all the fighting for?

Incredible change happens in your life when you decide to take control of what you do have power over instead of craving control over what you don't.

I want to be in a relationship where you telling me you love me is just a ceremonious validation of what you already show me.