Haneen !

“Alone, I often fall down into nothingness. I must push my foot stealthily lest I should fall off the edge of the world into nothingness. I have to bang my head against some hard door to call myself back to the body.”
― Virginia Woolf, The Waves

“أنت بضربة موفقة واحدة تستطيع أن تغير نظام الحكم، أما الطبائع فيلزمها وقت أطول بكثير!”
― نجيب محفوظ, المرايا

“❞ كلَّما نجح في الفرار، كان بلياردو يفكِّر أن أسوأ ما في النجاة أنها تُفقِد المرء كبرياءه. مرَّة بعد مرَّة، كان يسأل نفسه: أيُّ نجاةٍ وَهْميةٍ يُمثِّلها الهرب، وفي الوقت نفسه، أيُّ شجاعةٍ زائفة، تنطوي عليها مواجهةٌ مع مدينةٍ، لا ترى مَنْ يراها؟ ❝”
― طارق إمام, ماكيت القاهرة

“Over the years, I have come to realize that the greatest trap in our life is not success, popularity, or power, but self-rejection. Success, popularity, and power can indeed present a great temptation, but their seductive quality often comes from the way they are part of the much larger temptation to self-rejection. When we have come to believe in the voices that call us worthless and unlovable, then success, popularity, and power are easily perceived as attractive solutions. The real trap, however, is self-rejection. As soon as someone accuses me or criticizes me, as soon as I am rejected, left alone, or abandoned, I find myself thinking, "Well, that proves once again that I am a nobody." ... [My dark side says,] I am no good... I deserve to be pushed aside, forgotten, rejected, and abandoned. Self-rejection is the greatest enemy of the spiritual life because it contradicts the sacred voice that calls us the "Beloved." Being the Beloved constitutes the core truth of our existence.”
― Henri J.M. Nouwen