Ja'far Majeed

“With or without religion, good people can behave well and bad people can do evil; but for good people to do evil - that takes religion.”
― Steven Weinberg

“سأحلمُ ، لا لأصلح أيَّ معنىً خارجي
بل كي أرمّم داخلي المهجور
من أثر الجفاف العاطفيِّ . .
حفظت قلبي كله عن ظهر قلبٍ
و لم يعد متطفلاً و مدللاً
تكفيه حبة " اسبرين " لكي يلين و يستكين . .”
― محمود درويش

“To him she seemed so beautiful, so seductive, so different from ordinary people, that he could not understand why no one was as disturbed as he by the clicking of her heels on the paving stones, why no one else's heart was wild with the breeze stirred by the sighs of her veils, why everyone did not go mad with the movements of her braid, the flight of her hands, the gold of her laughter. He had not missed a single one of her gestures, not one of the indications of her character, but he did not dare approach her for fear of destroying the spell.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera

“I was happy, I knew that. While experiencing happiness, we have difficulty in being conscious of it. Only when the happiness is past and we look back on it do we suddenly realize - sometimes with astonishment - how happy we had been.”
― Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba the Greek