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“Every war and every conflict between human beings has happened because of some disagreement about names. It is such an unnecessary foolishness, because just beyond the arguing there is a long table of companionship set and waiting for us to sit down. What is praised is one, so the praise is one too, many jugs being poured into a huge basin. All religions, all this singing one song. The differences are just illusion and vanity. Sunlight looks a little different on this wall than it does on that wall and a lot different on this other one, but it is still one light. We have borrowed these clothes, these time-and-space personalities, from a light, and when we praise, we are pouring them back in.”
― Jalal ad-Din Rumi

“Since Love has made ruins of my heart
The sun must come and illumine them.
Such generosity has broken me with shame.”
― Jelalludin Rumi

“On the path of Love we are neither masters nor the owners of our lives. We are only a brush in the hand of the Master Painter.”
― Rumi

“Come, come, whoever you are. Wanderer, worshiper, lover of leaving. It doesn't matter. Ours is not a caravan of despair. come, even if you have broken your vows a thousand times. Come, yet again , come , come.”
― Jelaluddin Rumi

“Though in the trade of war I have slain men,
Yet do I hold it very stuff o' the conscience
To do no contrived murder: I lack iniquity
Sometimes to do me service: nine or ten times
I had thought to have yerk'd him here under the ribs.”
― William Shakespeare, Othello

“Yet not for a single moment did I have any doubts about my own integrity and honour as a woman. I knew that my profession had been invented by men, and that men were in control of both our worlds, the one on earth, and the one in heaven. That men force women to sell their bodies at a price, and that the lowest paid body is that of a wife. All women are prostitutes of one kind or another.”
― Nawal El Saadawi, Woman at Point Zero

“All the men I did get to know, every single man of them, has filled me with but one desire: to lift my hand and bring it smashing down on his face.”
― Nawal El Saadawi, Woman at Point Zero

“إننا لا نعرف الصواب إلا من خلال الخطأ، ليس في الخطأ ضعف أو غباء ولكن الاستمرار في الخطأ هو الضعف وهو الغباء.”
― Nawal El Saadawi, مذكرات طبيبة

“There is always something left to love.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude