Merdan Abdullah

“Yê bash ageh ji bashîya xo nîne ji ber hndê yê bashe. Yê xrab yê xirabe çinkî divêt yê bash bît.”
― Jiwar Chelky

“Ne xeletîye tu qesta xodê bikey di tengavî o wan demên zehmet yên bi ser te da dihên, belê xeletî ewe tu wî ji bîr bikey demê tu rizgar di bî o di xûşîya da.”
― Jiwar Chelky

“The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image.”
― Thomas Merton, The Way of Chuang Tzu

“If you want to identify me, ask me not where I live, or what I like to eat, or how I comb my hair, but ask me what I am living for, in detail, ask me what I think is keeping me from living fully for the thing I want to live for.”
― Thomas Merton