Mohammed Khalifa

“لم يمضِ وقتٌ طويلٌ حتى أحسستُ كأن ثلجًا يذوب في دخيلتي، فكأنني مقرورٌ طلعتْ عليه الشمس. ذاك دفءُ الحياة في العشيرة، فقدتُه زمانًا في بلاد "تموت من البرد حيتانها".”
― الطيب صالح, Season of Migration to the North

“Happiness can be found even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light”
― Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

“The worst of all possible snakes is the eternal human proclivity for evil. The worst of all possible snakes is psychological, spiritual, personal, internal. No walls, however tall, will keep that out. Even if the fortress were thick enough, in principle, to keep everything bad whatsoever outside, it would immediately appear again within.”
― Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos

“Clever people have long been aware that happiness is like good health: when you have it, you don't notice it. But as the years go by, oh, the memories, the memories of happiness past!”
― Mikhail Bulgakov, A Young Doctor's Notebook