Kareem Saad

“علمتنى شهرزاد ان اصدق ما يكذبة منطق الانسان ، وان اخوض بحرا من المتناقضات ، وكلما جاء الليل تبين لى انى رجل فقير”
― نجيب محفوظ, ليالي ألف ليلة

“أَعطنا، يا حبّ، فَيْضَكَ كلَّه لنخوض
حرب العاطفيين الشريفةَ، فالمناخ ملائم،
والشمس تشحذ في الصباح سلاحنا،
يا حبُّ لا هدفٌ لنا إلا الهزيمةَ في
حروبك.. فانتصرْ أَنت انتصرْ، واسمعْ
مديحك من ضحاياكَ: انتصر سَلِمَتْ
يداك وَعدْ إلينا خاسرين... وسالما”
― محمود درويش

“Love is a decision, it is a judgment, it is a promise. If love were only a feeling, there would be no basis for the promise to love each other forever. A feeling comes and it may go. How can I judge that it will stay forever, when my act does not involve judgment and decision.”
― Erich Fromm, The Art of Loving

“In the end, people don't view their life as merely the average of all its moments—which, after all, is mostly nothing much plus some sleep. For human beings, life is meaningful because it is a story. A story has a sense of a whole, and its arc is determined by the significant moments, the ones where something happens. Measurements of people's minute-by-minute levels of pleasure and pain miss this fundamental aspect of human existence. A seemingly happy life maybe empty. A seemingly difficult life may be devoted to a great cause. We have purposes larger than ourselves.”
― Atul Gawande, Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End