17 Quotes & Sayings By Hisham Fawzi

Hisham Fawzi was born in Jerusalem, Palestine. He now lives in the United States. Fawzi has published four novels (three in Arabic and one in English), several short stories, and several works of nonfiction, including his memoirs. His novels have been translated into English, Spanish, French, Hebrew, Russian and Chinese Read more

His latest novel is "Sweet Mango Tree" (Orion Press). Fawzi's fiction is noted for its literary style and for its sensitivity to the Palestinian experience. His nonfiction books include "The Glass Palace" (Verso Books); "A Brief History of Palestine" (Verso Books); "Muslim Nationalism" (Verso Books); "The Prophetic Imagination: An Introduction to Islam" (Oxford University Press); "Imagining Palestine: A Narrative History" (Oxford University Press); and "Real Arab Men" (Palgrave Macmillan).

Anybody have the right to defend himself by carrying a...
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Anybody have the right to defend himself by carrying a gun but nobody have the right to kill others because he is carrying a gun Hisham Fawzi
Knowledge is what makes the human being rich and not...
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Knowledge is what makes the human being rich and not otherwise. Whoever thinks that money determines rich or poor is so wrong or in another way to put it he/she is so shallow Hisham Fawzi
Be true to yourself so you never regret anything you...
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Be true to yourself so you never regret anything you did. Hisham Fawzi
The negativity fuel and the winner rules
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The negativity fuel and the winner rules Hisham Fawzi
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The second you think that you are something is the same second you confirm that you are nothing Hisham Fawzi
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We can regret something that we did , we can regret something that we didn't do; but the only thing that we can not afford to regret is regretting being ourselves Hisham Fawzi
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The Prerequisite of any "Success Story" is the decision to commit in giving up your own soul to the Journey that you are about to start. Hisham Fawzi
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For me, I can not be right in anything unless there is no counter thoughts that contradict my wrong, in this case my thoughts will be right. Hisham Fawzi
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Thanks God that he created me dumb and crazy enough to believe that I can create and invent in other than what i studied in and what they want me to be. Hisham Fawzi
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They said “globalization”! ! ; my reply then was and still is that the only way for "globalization" to cherish and succeed is through a “lifestyle” and not through a “culture” driven societies; and gentlemen, that is not what the world can afford ! ! Hisham Fawzi
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The power of a successful salesman is not putting his hand in the customer's pocket to pull his money out. but rather manipulate the customer's mind to let him put his hand and happily pull the money and give it to you Hisham Fawzi
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Love is not about anything but allowing somebody to fall into your emotions and feelings , it is nothing about trust or anything like that. as a matter of fact you can very much trust somebody but you can not love him/her ! ! we always forget that the real love is about feelings and not mind. you seriously can not fall in love with your brain , you can not , this is what is called beneficial love and not the real one. Hisham Fawzi
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We tend to search for happiness and love forgetting that both can be found when we stop searching for sadness and hate. Hisham Fawzi
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Life is what we make it to be; can be other people’s life or it can be our special one. The difference is that the first we sit and watch and basically we know the ending but the second is defined by us and require lots of work and effort to define the way we want to live by. It is a journey with no end in sight, no distance measured behind, just going. It is a faith similar to the faith to your God but this one is just faith in yourself and your capability to define a path with a vision of the future that you really can not see but rather feel and sense. . Hisham Fawzi
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No dream, no journey planed, no goals to dream for and achieve Hisham Fawzi
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Being in love is not always being happy but being happy is always being in love Hisham Fawzi