Reda Sachtleben > Reda's Quotes

“Despite wanting me to end her life, after a short while, Mrs Sloan fought back with surprising strength for such a small woman. Being close to death changed people, I guess, like drinking alcohol or someone saying your handwriting is beautiful changes you.”
― Eli Wilde, Orchard of Skeletons

“Birth, life, and death― each took place on the hidden side of a leaf.”
― Toni Morrison

“To rush headlong into the comforting darkness of selfhood as a reborn human being, or even as beast, an unhappy ghost, a denizen of hell. Anything rather than the burning brightness of unmitigated Reality.”
― Aldous Huxley, The Doors of Perception

“We are on a perilous margin when we begin to look passively at our future selves, and see our own figures led with dull consent into insipid misdoing and shabby achievement.”
― George Eliot

“Real love" - "This kind of love is emotional in nature but not obsessional. It is a love that unites reason and emotion. It involves an act of the will and requires discipline, and it recognizes the need for personal growth.”
― Gary Chapman, The Five Love Languages: How to Express Heartfelt Commitment to Your Mate

“Any fact becomes important when it's connected to another.”
― Umberto Eco, Foucault’s Pendulum

“إذا تحدثت مع شخص بلغةٍ يفهمها فذلك يحرّك عقله. وإذا تحدثت مع شخصٍ بلغته الأصلية فذلك يحرّك قلبه”
― نيلسون مانديلا