Yee Beemon

“He could not understand how a person born in the United States who knew the English language and culture and was educated with at least a high school degree failed to provide for his own subsistence without government assistance.”
― Rafael Polo, Growing Up American

“Poignancy, she told me, is the richest feeling humans experience, one that gives meaning to life—and it happens when you feel happy and sad at the same time. It’s the state you enter when you cry tears of joy—which tend to come during precious moments suffused with their imminent ending. When we tear up at that beloved child splashing in a rain puddle, she explains, we aren’t simply happy: “We’re also appreciating, even if it’s not explicit, that this time of life will end; that good times pass as well as bad ones; that we’re all going to die in the end. I think that being comfortable with this is adaptive. That’s emotional development.”
― Susan Cain, Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole

“لقد أعجب برائحة البحر لدرجة أن اشتهى الحصول عليها ، ولو مرة .. نقية دون شوائب وبكميات وافره تسكره.”
― Patrick Süskind, Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

“If you believe that life is worth living then your belief will create the fact.”
― Arthur Miller