Amira Mahmoud

“كنتُ قد فقدتُ هوّيتي، و وجدتُ صعوبة في أن أتذكر من أكون، و كانت الذكريات تطفو على السطح كالبرق الخاطف وقتما تشاء. لكن ما نكون عليه في أعماقنا لا يُمحى. ربما الأمر كذلك فنجد أنفسنا ـ في نهاية المطاف ـ نتعرف على هويتنا من خلال أفعالنا ، فحسب.”
― Giuseppe Catozzella, Non dirmi che hai paura

“It’s lovely loving, isn’t it? In fact, I find it almost better, because being loved sometimes embarrasses me, but loving is a gift.”
― Sheila Hancock

“Some people you will always have about you whom you can trust, and no man these days can boast of more than that. Remember them; forget the others.”
― Hugh Lofting

“if you keep interrupting your evening to check and respond to e-mail, or put aside a few hours after dinner to catch up on an approaching deadline, you’re robbing your directed attention centers of the uninterrupted rest they need for restoration. Even if these work dashes consume only a small amount of time, they prevent you from reaching the levels of deeper relaxation in which attention restoration can occur. Only the confidence that you’re done with work until the next day can convince your brain to downshift to the level where it can begin to recharge for the next day to follow. Put another way, trying to squeeze a little more work out of your evenings might reduce your effectiveness the next day enough that you end up getting less done than if you had instead respected a shutdown.”
― Cal Newport, Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World