((أَيَحْسَبُ الإنْسَانُ أَنْ يُتْرَكَ سُدًى))

[سورة القيامة]

This is the question everybody's asking, because we believe that our existence is too important to be meaningless and "يُترَك سُدىً".

I probably should calm down and stop analyzing everything

Nevermind, we all know I won't

أَجابَ دَمعي وَما الداعي سِوى طَلَلِ
دَعا فَلَبّاهُ قَبلَ الرَكبِ وَالإِبِلِ

ظَلِلتُ بَينَ أُصَيحابي أُكَفكِفُهُ
وَظَلَّ يَسفَحُ بَينَ العُذرِ وَالعَذَلِ

وما صَبابَةُ مشتاقٍ على أمَلٍ
من اللقاءِ كمُشتاقٍ بلا أمَلِ

- أبو الطيب المتنبي

نصيحة لوجه الله تعالى، مدري مو لوجه الله:
حاول تعيش تجربة الشباب بالطعشات والعشرينات من عمرك حتى ما تمر بأزمة منتصف العمر بالأربعينات وتنكلب مراهق وأهلك ما يكونون موجودين حتى يمنعوك من تصرفاتك الغبية

وبتجربة الشباب أقصد، التصرفات الغبية وغير المسؤولة وسوالف الحب والأحلام الجبيرة غير القابلة للتحقيق، بناءً على مبدأ:
Only do the mistakes when you can afford the consequences (and when ur 20, u can afford them mostly)

أو لتسمع نصيحتي لأن غالبًا اني نفسي رح اعتبرها خاطئة بس أعبر العشرينات

I was used to my mind being my best friend; of carrying on endless conversations within my head; of having a built-in source of laughter or analytic thought to rescue me from boring or painful surroundings. I counted upon my mind’s acuity, interest, and loyalty as a matter of course. Now, all of a sudden, my mind had turned on me: it mocked me for my vapid enthusiasms; it laughed at all of my foolish plans; it no longer found anything interesting or enjoyable or worthwhile. It was incapable of concentrated thought and turned time and again to the subject of death: I was going to die, what difference did anything make? Life’s run was only a short and meaningless one, why live? I was totally exhausted and could scarcely pull myself out of bed in the mornings.

- An Unquiet Mind

No good has ever come from feeling guilty. The guilty do not pay attention to the object but only to themselves, and not even to their own interests, which might make sense, but to their anxieties.

- Paul Goodman

Just to be clear, sometimes you have to pay attention to your anxieties, granted they were justified anxieties.

Guilt usually indicates that our actions have deviated from our principles and moralities. It is an alarm light.

Guilt is a noble emotion; the person without it is a monster.

- Willard Gaylin

The most casual reading of biographies indicates that many admirable people, like Abraham Lincoln, often suffered from “deep insecurities and self-doubts,” and that many less-than-admirable people suffered from no self-doubts whatsoever, at least until they were caught or disgraced.

- House of cards: psychology and psychotherapy built on myth

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people are busy leading their lives into the future, whereas psychology, for the most part, is busy tracing them into the past.

- Gordon Allport

The true genius of George R. R. Martin & ASOIAF is that he presents his story in the format of true history. There's a realistic amount of uncertainty in the work, unlike, say, in LOTR.

If a foreign power had attempted to give America the bad education it has today, we would have viewed it as an act of war.

- National Commission on Excellence in Education, in a 1983 report.

لو حاولت قوةٌ أجنبية إعطاءنا هذا النظام التعليمي السيء الذي نمتلكه اليوم في الولايات المتحدة، لاعتبرناه إعلانَ حرب.