Ifrah Akhtar

“So it’s not a problem of getting people to express themselves but of providing little gaps of solitude and silence in which they might eventually find something to say. Repressive forces don’t stop people expressing themselves but rather force them to express themselves; What a relief to have nothing to say, the right to say nothing, because only then is there a chance of framing the rare, and ever rarer, thing that might be worth saying.”
― Gilles Deleuze, Negotiations 1972-1990

“It is said, in a fire, everyone runs away from it save for the fireman who run towards it. When dealing with students, be the fireman.”
― Patricia Sequeira Belvel, Rethinking Classroom Management: Strategies for Prevention, Intervention, and Problem Solving

“My belief that God is love, that love is everything--our true destiny--sustains me.”
― bell hooks

“The desires of this world are like sea water. The more you drink of them, the more you thirst.”
― Ibn Arabi