Basma

“We are all born happy. Life gets us dirty along the way, but we can clean it up. Happiness is not exuberant or noisy, like pleasure or joy; it’s silent, tranquil, and gentle; it’s a feeling of satisfaction inside that begins with self-love. You need to love yourself as I do, as all those who know you do, especially Alma’s grandson.”
― Isabel Allende, The Japanese Lover

“Which of us is not forever a stranger and alone?”
― Thomas Wolfe, Look Homeward, Angel

“Part of the resistance to Darwin and Wallace derives from our difficulty in imagining the passage of the millennia, much less the aeons. What does seventy million years mean to beings who live only one-millionth as long? We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.”
― Carl Sagan, Cosmos

“I'm too open minded that I don't know what to mind anymore.”
― Ahmed Mostafa