People spend their whole lives searching for certainty as though truth were a destination waiting patiently at the end of the road, yet the strange sorrow of existence lies in realizing that every answer merely opens another door into a darker and larger room. The child believes time moves slowly, the old man believes it disappeared in a single breath, and somewhere between those two illusions a human being quietly learns that life was never truly possessed at all. We are only temporary witnesses standing beside a river that carried our ancestors before us and will continue long after our names dissolve into silence. The stars above us burn with ancient fire, civilizations rise believing themselves eternal, hearts love as though separation will never come, yet everything without exception bends toward disappearance. Perhaps wisdom is not found in resisting this truth, but in learning how to look directly at the fragile beauty of passing things without demanding that they remain forever. 🎧@homeofbookquotes
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People are rarely haunted by the things they lost; they are haunted by the possibilities that almost existed, the words never spoken, and the versions of themselves that were never allowed to emerge. 🎧@homeofbookquotes
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The winner of the competition will be awarded certificates of appreciation, including a special certificate recognizing and illustrating their achievement. In addition, the winner’s name will be officially recognized as an Honorable Member among all members of Agora of Scholars, acknowledging their intellectual excellence and contribution to the community. / Additionally, we would like to inform all participants that this is only the selection round of the competition, which will last for 30 days. At the end of this stage, approximately 30 to 50 participants — or more, depending on the quality of submissions — will be selected based on the depth, originality, and quality of their answers.
The selected participants will then advance to the final stage of Lumina, where they will compete against one another in a more challenging and intellectually demanding round to determine the ultimate winner of the competition.
“There is something haunting about the fact that every conversation, every touch, every moment of laughter between people is occurring above an abyss none of them can escape. Beneath ordinary life there is always the silent movement of time carrying everything toward disappearance, yet people continue building friendships, falling in love, creating art, making promises, and dreaming about tomorrow as though the temporary nature of existence were not the very thing giving those moments their unbearable beauty.” 🎧@homeofbookquotes
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guys, something very big is coming, something that is very enjoying and complicated.
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"Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards." — Søren Kierkegaard 🎧@homeofbookquotes
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"كن كالنخلة، يرميها الناس بالحجر فترميهم بأطيب الثمر"
"Be like the palm tree—people throw stones at it, but it gives them the best dates"
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“The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”
― Elie Wiesel 🎧@homeofbookquotes
I’ve never wanted something as badly as I want my life to dramatically change for the better… best… over the next few months. It’s time. It’s my time.
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There's a lot of advice out there to "not be too hard on yourself," but look around...
You see entitlement, bad work ethic, poor treatment of others, rudeness, blame, etc..
More people should clearly be harder on themselves.
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You will be praised for things that don’t matter and criticized for things you cannot change. People will try to pull you into their way of life. They will say, “Don’t be too strict. Don’t take things too seriously.” But I tell you: seriousness now saves you from regret later.
Hold onto truth. Discipline yourself. Respect those around you. Read widely. Honour your family. Stay off the chains of social media. And above all, remember God. If you carry these values, you will walk through life with dignity, no matter how dark the world becomes.
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Happiness is a terrible goal.
It's a byproduct, not a destination.
The more directly you pursue it, the more it retreats.
People who report the most life satisfaction almost never mention happiness.
They talk about meaning, work, and people they love.
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“Whenever you think or you believe or you know, you're a lot of other people: but the moment you feel, you're nobody-but-yourself.” 🎧@homeofbookquotes
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People spend years trying to become unforgettable, only to realize that the deepest human desire was never to be remembered by the world, but to be understood by one person before disappearing from it. 🎧@homeofbookquotes
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Lumina is a competition centered around philosophy, poetry, quotes, and critical thinking, organized by Agora of Scholars. The competition was created to inspire deep reflection, intellectual curiosity, and meaningful expression among students and young thinkers.
Through thought-provoking questions, philosophical discussions, poetic interpretation, and quote analysis, participants are encouraged to think beyond ordinary perspectives and explore ideas with logic, creativity, and insight. Lumina provides a space where wisdom, imagination, and independent thinking come together.
More than just a competition, Lumina is an opportunity to challenge the mind, express unique perspectives, and engage with profound ideas that shape the way we understand ourselves and the world around us.
“Time is the substance I am made of. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river.”
— Jorge Luis Borges 🎧@homeofbookquotes
“Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisioned by the enemy, don't we consider it his duty to escape?. . .If we value the freedom of mind and soul, if we're partisans of liberty, then it's our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can!”
― J.R.R. Tolkien 🎧@homeofbookquotes
“A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.”
― Albert Einstein 🎧@homeofbookquotes
"No tree, it is said, can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell." — Carl Jung 🎧@homeofbookquotes
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“Yes I have done it all. Tested the shallow waters, swam through the dangerous tides, met strangers, seen friends turn strangers, taken risks to achieve my goals, persevered to out do myself each time, rose high, fell hard, learned to climb, learned to dream and in dreaming learned to relate to reality.
I have earned respect, achieved things very young, believed in my potential, questioned it too but through it all I have never stopped to aspire. I am a human and I must adapt to the changing seasons, learn new skills and master them all.
Now as I stand and look up, I see a heap of laurels yet to achieve and chest of mysteries yet to resolve. I am not one in the crowd. I'll forever be the one whom they could never be”
― Adhish Mazumder
"Never take advice from someone in the stands with a biscuit, while you're down in the ring with a sword."- Mike Holland
A lot of people out there eating biscuits & criticizing those on the ground.
Criticizing is the spectator sport of the masses.
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The best people do not “hope” for anything.
They work to make it happen.
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“I know that pain is the most important thing in the universes. Greater than survival, greater than love, greater even than the beauty it brings about. For without pain, there can be no pleasure. Without sadness, there can be no happiness. Without misery there can be no beauty. And without these, life is endless, hopeless, doomed and damned.
Adult. You have become adult.”
― Harlan Ellison, Paingod and Other Delusions 🎧@homeofbookquotes
The more you complain about the meaningless stuff that is fully in your control. The harder your life will be. The less energy you will have. Outcome of that? The unhappier you will be.
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