Curiouscat

“I am as my servant thinks of me’ is a statement of God which is profoundly instructive. It teaches us that our destiny actually lies with us in how we think and behave. Meaningful existence is a life of hope, contribution and productivity.”
― Mohammed Faris, The Productive Muslim: Where Faith Meets Productivity

“I looked and looked at her, and I knew, as clearly as I know that I will die, that I loved her more than anything I had ever seen or imagined on earth. She was only the dead-leaf echo of the nymphet from long ago - but I loved her, this Lolita, pale and polluted and big with another man's child. She could fade and wither - I didn't care. I would still go mad with tenderness at the mere sight of her face.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

“Words without experience are meaningless.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita