Amr Magdi

“for there is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with someone, for someone, a pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echoes.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“Happiness is not something you can chase. It is something you have to allow. This likely will come as a surprise to many people, as the world is so adamant about everything from positive psychology to motivational Pinterest boards. But happiness is not something you can coach yourself into. Happiness is your natural state. That means you will return to it on your own if you allow the other feelings you want to experience to come up, be felt, be processed, and not resisted. The less you resist your unhappiness, the happier you will be. It is often just trying too hard to feel one certain way that sets us up for failure.”
― Brianna Wiest, The Mountain Is You: Transforming Self-Sabotage Into Self-Mastery

“و لكنك عبد لمن أحببت لأنك تحبه و عبد لمن أحبّكَ لأنه يحبك”
― جبران خليل جبران, الأجنحة المتكسرة

“وإذا جاءك الفرح, مرة أخرى, فلا تذكر خيانته السابقة. ادخل الفرح, وانفجر!”
― محمود درويش, يوميات الحزن العادي