Mohamed Salah

“Consider your origin. You were not formed to live like brutes but to follow virtue and knowledge.”
― Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso

“We all have the potential to fall in love a thousand times in our lifetime. It's easy. The first girl I ever loved was someone I knew in sixth grade. Her name was Missy; we talked about horses. The last girl I love will be someone I haven't even met yet, probably. They all count. But there are certain people you love who do something else; they define how you classify what love is supposed to feel like. These are the most important people in your life, and you’ll meet maybe four or five of these people over the span of 80 years. But there’s still one more tier to all this; there is always one person you love who becomes that definition. It usually happens retrospectively, but it happens eventually. This is the person who unknowingly sets the template for what you will always love about other people, even if some of these loveable qualities are self-destructive and unreasonable. The person who defines your understanding of love is not inherently different than anyone else, and they’re often just the person you happen to meet the first time you really, really, want to love someone. But that person still wins. They win, and you lose. Because for the rest of your life, they will control how you feel about everyone else.”
― Chuck Klosterman, Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story

“الشوارع حواديت
حواداية الحب فيها..و حواداية عفاريت
اسمعى يا حلوة لما أضحك
الشارع ده كنا ساكنين فيه زمان
كل يوم يضيق زيادة عن ما كان
أصبح الآن بعد ما كبرنا عليه
زى بطن الأم مالناش فيه مكان

الشارع ده رحنا فيه المدرسة
اللى باقى منه باقى
و اللى مش باقى اتنسى
كنسوه الكناسين بالمكنسة
ييجى دور لحظة أسى
أنا برضه كمان نسيت

الشارع ده أوّله بساتين
و آخره حيطة سد
ليا فيه قصة غرام
ما حكتش عنها لأى حد
من طرف واحد..و كنت سعيد أوى
بس حراس الشوارع حطوا للحدوتة حد

الشارع ده شفتك انتى ماشية فيه
لابسة جيب.. و بلوزة وردى
و عاملة ديل حصان وجيه
اتجاهك فى اتجاهى..مشينا ليه
و الشارع دا زحام و تيه
بس لازم نستميت

و الشوارع حواديت
حواداية الحب فيها
و حواداية عفاريت
و اضحكى يا حلوة لما اسمّعك”
― صلاح جاهين

“The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.”
― Mark Twain