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“Some periods of our growth are so confusing that we don’t even recognize that growth is what is happening. We may feel hostile or angry or weepy and hysterical, or we may feel depressed. It would never occur to us, unless we stumbled on a book or person who explained it to us, that we were in fact in the process of change, of actually becoming larger, spiritually, than we were before. Whenever we grow, we tend to feel it, as a young seed must feel the weight and inertia of the earth as it seeks to break out of its shell on its way to becoming a plant. Often the feeling is anything but pleasant. But what is most unpleasant is the not knowing what is happening . . . Those long periods when something inside ourselves seems to be waiting, holding its breath, unsure about what the next step should be, eventually become the periods we wait for, for it is in those periods that we realize that we are being prepared for the next phase of our life and that, in all probability, a new level of the personality is about to be revealed.”
― Alice Walker, Living by the Word: Essays

“What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“The less you eat, drink and read books; the less you go to the theatre, the dance hall, the public house; the less you think, love, theorize, sing, paint, fence, etc., the more you save-the greater becomes your treasure which neither moths nor dust will devour-your capital. The less you are, the more you have; the less you express your own life, the greater is your alienated life-the greater is the store of your estranged being.”
― Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels

“سَوطُ الليلِ يُلهِبُ أَضْلُعِي
ويزيدُ من عبثِ الهمومِ بِمفرقِي
أَرهقتُ أحلامي، ذَبَحْتُ قصائدِي
فِي معبدِ الشمسِ التي لَمْ تُشرقِ
وصهرتُ في قلبِ الجحيمِ دفاتري
ودفعتُ في لُججِ المخاطرِ زَورَقِي
كَمْ ماتَ فجرٌ في جدارِ حديقَتِي
حتَّى ظنَنْتُ بأنَّهُ لَم يُخلَقِ”
― محمد الثبيتي, ديوان محمد الثبيتي الأعمال الكاملة