Nahid Soltanzadeh

“I want to learn how to hold the paradoxical poles of my identity together, to embrace the profoundly opposite truths that my sense of self is deeply dependent on others dancing with me and that I still have a sense of self when no one wants to dance.”
― Parker J. Palmer, The Courage to Teach: Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher's Life

“We all build internal sea walls to keep at bay the sadnesses of life and the often overwhelming forces within our minds. In whatever way we do this--through love, work, family, faith, friends, denial, alcohol, drugs, or medication, we build these walls, stone by stone, over a lifetime. ”
― Kay Redfield Jamison, An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness

“I detest what you write, but I would give my life to make it possible for you to continue to write.”
― Evelyn Beatrice Hall, The Friends of Voltaire

“Sometimes, parents & children become the most common strangers. Eventually, a street appears where they can meet again.”
― Chen Chen, When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities