Omar Abdulaziz

“So after conferring with the waiter for about an hour, the two men managed to convince him it would be easier for him if halved the bill or they'd 'report him'. Obviously, it was a bit hazy exactly who would report whom for what, but eventually, with a certain amount of swearing and arm-waving, the waiter gave up and went into the kitchen and wrote them a new bill. In the meantime Rune and Ove, nodded grimly at one another without noticing that their wives, as usual, had taken a taxi home twenty minutes earlier.”
― Fredrik Backman, A Man Called Ove

“There's the church were you became mine. There's the house that became ours.”
― Fredrik Backman, And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer

“How difficult it is for us to attain to reality...We always try to grab it: but it does not like to be grabbed. Only where it overwhelms man does
it surrender itself to him.”
― Muhammad Asad, The Road to Mecca

“When someone is seeking,’ said Siddhartha, ‘it happens quite easily that he only sees the thing that he is seeking; that he is unable to find anything, unable to absorb anything, because he is only thinking of the thing he is seeking, because he has a goal, because he is obsessed with his goal. Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal. You, O worthy one, are perhaps indeed a seeker, for in striving towards your goal, you do not see many things that are under your nose.”
― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha