Raoum Bani

“صديقي..
الذي تحوّلَ إلى عدوِّي فجأة..
بلا سببٍ تحوَّل!
رغم أني لم أكُن سببًا في عداوته!
ولا أعرفُ ما الدّاعي من غضبهِ وتحوّله..
إنك عالقٌ في رأسي على شكلكَ القَديم..
شكلكَ وأنت صَديقي!”
― رشاد حسن, مرآة تبحث عن وجه

“There is no such thing as a great talent without great willpower.”
― Honoré de Balzac

“Surround yourself with the dreamers and the doers, the believers and thinkers, but most of all, surround yourself with those who see the greatness within you, even when you don’t see it yourself.”
― Edmund Lee

“People use drugs, legal and illegal, because their lives are intolerably painful or dull. They hate their work and find no rest in their leisure. They are estranged from their families and their neighbors. It should tell us something that in healthy societies drug use is celebrative, convivial, and occasional, whereas among us it is lonely, shameful, and addictive. We need drugs, apparently, because we have lost each other.”
― Wendell Berry, The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays