Taoufik Abu

“I should have become an "I" before I became a "we".”
― Irvin Yalom, When Nietzsche Wept

“A person of high, rare mental gifts who is forced into a job which is merely useful is like a valuable vase decorated with the most beautiful painting and then used as a kitchen pot.”
― Irvin D. Yalom, The Schopenhauer Cure

“They say, in life change is the most important thing for you to evolve.
I think it's the pain which makes a person evolve, A species evolve.

Time will throw a thousand happy moments, which will teach you nothing. Real sense of life is understood when you go through that one painful moment.
Which will help you evolve, which will help you change.”
― Akash Lakhotia, World Hypnotized: Making of the Fuhrer

“Again, Nietzsche thumbed through his notes, and then read, “ ‘One must have chaos and frenzy within oneself to give birth to a dancing star.”
― Irvin D. Yalom, When Nietzsche Wept: A Novel Of Obsession