Esraa

“There's no way to know what makes one thing happen and not another. What leads to what. What destroys what. What causes what to flourish or die or take another course.”
― Cheryl Strayed, Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

“شئ عجيب .. كأن العالم الخارجى ليست له ألوان, وأن هذه الألوان تخرج من عيوننا, فالسعيد يجعل الدنيا حوله سعيدة والشقى يجعلها كذلك. والذى لايستطيع شئ تقف الدنيا كلها فى حلقه, أو تسقط من عينيه, أو تنهار من أذنيه, فالدنيا كلها تخرج منا وتتشكل وتتلون وتقرب وتبعد كما نريد..”
― أنيس منصور

“I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud

I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle on the milky way,
They stretched in never-ending line
Along the margin of a bay:
Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.

The waves beside them danced; but they
Out-did the sparkling waves in glee:
A poet could not but be gay,
In such a jocund company:
I gazed--and gazed--but little thought
What wealth the show to me had brought:

For oft, when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood,
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils.”
― William Wordsworth, I Wander'd Lonely as a Cloud

“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
― William Shakespeare, As You Like It