Charaf

“لا تحكم على الطريقة التى يتواصل بها الناس مع الله , فلكل أمرئ طريقته و صلاته الخاصة . ان الله لا يأخذنا بكلمتنا , بل ينظر فى أعماق قلوبنا . و ليست المناسك أو الطقوس هى التى تجعلنا مؤمنين , بل ان كانت قلوبنا صافية ام لا .”
― Elif Shafak The Forty Rules of Love

“But when I want to draw close to someone, and fully commit myself, then my misery is assured. Then I am nothing, and what can I do with nothingness? I must admit that your letter this morning (by the afternoon it had changed) arrived at just the right moment; I was in need of those very words.”
― Franz Kafka, Letters to Felice

“أُحب الشئ ثم أنقلب عليه لئلا يستعبدني.”
― محمود درويش

“The minute you become conscious that you are doing good, that's the minute you have to stop because from then on it's wrong.”
― Paula Fox