Dina Hashash

“Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

“A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.”
― Edward Abbey

“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
― Mark Twain

“The true paradises are the paradises that we have lost.”
― Marcel Proust