The one thing you can’t take away from me is the way I choose to respond to what you do to me. The last of one’s freedoms is to choose one’s attitude in any given circumstance.
-- Viktor E. Frankl
The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.
--Ernest Hemingway: Men Without Women
"If he is to lose everything, he should not place himself in a position to lose that. He should not place himself in a position to lose. He should find things he cannot lose."
دهر يشيّع سبته أحده ** متتابع ما ينقضي أمده
والحال من سعد يساعدنا ** طورا ونحس معقب نكده
يوم يبكينا وآونة ** يوم يبكينا عليه غده
نبكي على زمن ومن زمن ** فبكاؤنا موصولة مدده
ونرى مكارهنا مخلدة ** والعمر يذهب فانيا عدده
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