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“True acceptance of an individual as he is, without trying to change him through encouragement or manipulation or coercion, is a very high form of love, and very difficult for most of us to practice.”
― Robin Norwood, Women Who Love Too Much: When You Keep Wishing and Hoping He'll Change

“We are all implicated when we allow other people to be mistreated. An absence of compassion can corrupt the decency of a community, a state, a nation. Fear and anger can make us vindictive and abusive, unjust and unfair, until we all suffer from the absence of mercy and we condemn ourselves as much as we victimize others. The closer we get to mass incarceration and extreme levels of punishment, the more I believe it's necessary to recognize that we all need mercy, we all need justice, and-perhaps-we all need some measure of unmerited grace.”
― Bryan Stevenson, Just Mercy

“i have never understood.
will
probably never understand.
the white mans lust
to eat the world.
to eat the universe. (mars is next)
why he was born with such a rabid
starvation.
why he feigns for power
like
crack rock. doing everything. and anything.
to have it.
no matter how deranged.
why he is in so much pain
he needs to rip the roots of happiness
from the earth
and
burn them into
his smile.
what happened in his relationship with our mother.
that he needs to set a person on fire.
watch them burn.
to
feel powerful.
not every white man
is
born this way,
but,
it stands to remain
there are many
who
are.”
― nayyirah waheed

“يُخَاطِبني السَّفيهُ بِكُلِّ قُبْحٍ .:. فأكرهُ أن أكونَ له مجيباً
يزيدُ سفاهةً فأزيدُ حلماً .:. كعودٍ زادهُ الإحراقُ طيباً
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إِذا نَطَقَ السَفيهُ فَلا تَجِبهُ .:. فَخَيرٌ مِن إِجابَتِهِ السُكوتُ
فَإِن كَلَّمتَهُ فَرَّجتَ عَنهُ .:. وَإِن خَلَّيتَهُ كَمَداً يَموتُ
سكتُّ عن السفيهِ فظنَّ أني .:. عييتُ عن الجواب و ما عييتُ
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ومَنْ لَمْ يَذْقْ مُرّ الَتَعلُّمِ سَاعَةً .:. تَجَرّعَ ذُلّ الجَهْلِ طُولَ حَياتِهِ
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النَّاسُ داءٌ وَدَواءُ النَّاسِ قُرْبُهُمُ .:. وفي اعتزالهمُ قطعُ المودَّاتِ
ولستُ أسلمُ من خلٍّ يخالطني .:. فكيفَ أسلمُ من أهلِ العداواتِ
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وَلَرُبَّ نازِلَةٍ يَضيقُ لَها الفَتى .:. ذَرعاً وَعِندَ اللَهِ مِنها المَخرَجُ
ضَاقَت فَلَمَّا استَحكَمَت حَلَقَاتُهَا .:. فُرِجَت، وَكُنتُ أَظُنُّهَا لاَ تُفرَج
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أنا إن عشت لست أعدم قوتاً .:. وإذا مت لست أعدم قبراً
همتي همة الملوك ونفسي .:. نفس حر ترى المذلة كفراً
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شَكَوْتُ إلَى وَكِيعٍ سُوءَ حِفْظِي .:. فَأرْشَدَنِي إلَى تَرْكِ المعَاصي
وَأخْبَرَنِي بأَنَّ العِلْمَ نُورٌ .:. ونورُ الله لا يهدى لعاصي
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تَعْصِي الإِله وَأنْتَ تُظْهِرُ حُبَّهُ .:. هذا محالٌ في القياس بديعُ
لَوْ كانَ حُبُّكَ صَادِقاً لأَطَعْتَهُ .:. إنَّ الْمُحِبَّ لِمَنْ يُحِبُّ مُطِيعُ
في كلِّ يومٍ يبتديكَ بنعمةٍ .:. منهُ وأنتَ لشكرِ ذاكَ مضيعُ
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― الامام الشافعى