Khalil

“It's your road, and yours alone.
others may walk it with you,
but no one can walk it for you.”
― Rumi

“In the 10th century, Baghdad instituted a licensing exam that all doctors had to take before practicing as physicians”
― Firas Alkhateeb, Lost Islamic History: Reclaiming Muslim Civilisation from the Past

“I have lived a thousand lives and I’ve loved a thousand loves. I’ve walked on distant worlds and seen the end of time. Because I read.”
― George R.R. Martin

“How long he stood he did not know, but there was a foolish and yet delicious sense of knowing himself as an animal come from the forest, drawn by the fire. He was a thing of brush and liquid eye, of fur and muzzle and hoof, he was a thing of horn and blood that would smell like autumn if you bled it out on the ground. He stood a long time, listening to the warm crackle of the flames.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451