Mimo Abdallah > Mimo's Quotes

“Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter. It shakes the yellow leaves from the bough of your heart, so that fresh, green leaves can grow in their place. It pulls up the rotten roots, so that new roots hidden beneath have room to grow. Whatever sorrow shakes from your heart, far better things will take their place.”
― Rumi

“مالي أحدق في المرآة ..أسألها..
بأي ثوب من الأثواب..ألقاه
أأدعي أني أصبحت أكرهه ؟
وكيف أكره من في الجفن سكناه؟!
وكيف أهرب منه ؟ إنه قدري
هل يملك النهر تغييراً لمجراه؟!”
― نزار قباني, الرسم بالكلمات

“There is a saying in Tibetan, 'Tragedy should be utilized as a source of strength.'
No matter what sort of difficulties, how painful experience is, if we lose our hope, that's our real disaster.”
― Dalai Lama XIV

“So when you're cold
From the inside out
And don't know what to do,
Remember love and friendship,
And warmth will come to you.”
― Stephen Cosgrove, The Gnome from Nome

“Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul
And sings the tune without the words
And never stops at all.”
― Emily Dickinson