Mahmoud Rateb

“The one who plants trees, knowing that he will never sit in their shade, has at least started to understand the meaning of life.”
― Rabindranath Tagore

“نعم.. مآسينا كثيرة ومشكلات أمتنا مزمنة، و الأمر ليس قضية تفاؤل أو روح أمل، بل ببساطة التحدي الذي نواجهه كبشر دوما هو كيف نحتفظ بإنسانيتنا.. رغم كل شئ، ونعيش الحياة بفطرة سوية وإيمان و عرفان.. وعنفوان.”
― هبة رءوف عزت

“In order to “win a man to your cause,” Lincoln explained, you must first reach his heart, “the great high road to his reason.”
― Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln

“These days, loneliness is the new cancer—a shameful, embarrassing thing, brought upon yourself in some obscure way. A fearful, incurable thing, so horrifying that you dare not mention it; other people don’t want to hear the word spoken aloud for fear that they might too be afflicted, or that it might tempt fate into visiting a similar horror upon them.”
― Gail Honeyman, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine