The most important choice we can make is to control our thoughts.
“As the man was bundled into an armoured police van, he turned and shouted: ‘Don’t waste your life following others! Be individual! Live your dreams!’
I stood there thinking. He was right. Ours is a society of followers, trapped by an island mentality.”
― The Caliph's House: A Year in Casablanca
I stood there thinking. He was right. Ours is a society of followers, trapped by an island mentality.”
― The Caliph's House: A Year in Casablanca
“We have almost reached a point where if one values democracy, one is denounced as reactionary. I think that this will be one of the attitudes that will be found most fascinating to historians of the future. For one thing, the young people who cultivate this attitude towards democracy are usually those who have never experienced its opposite: people who've lived under tyranny, value democracy.”
― Prisons We Choose to Live Inside
― Prisons We Choose to Live Inside
“I never realized imagining could change reality”
― Daydreams of an Octopus & Other Stories
― Daydreams of an Octopus & Other Stories
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