Mahmoud Ashour

“We are all of us more complicated than the roles we are assigned in the stories other people tell”
― Tara Westover, Educated

“Of all that breathes and crawls across the earth,
our mother earth breeds nothing feebler than a man.
So long as the gods grant him power, spring in his knees,
he thinks he will never suffer affliction down the years.
But then, when the happy gods bring on the long hard times,
bear them he must, against his will, and steel his heart.
Our lives, our mood and mind as we pass across the earth,
turn as the days turn...
as the father of men and gods make each day dawn.”
― Homer

“We are living progressively sheltered, sterile, temperature-controlled, overfed, underchallenged, safety-netted lives.”
― Michael Easter, The Comfort Crisis: Embrace Discomfort to Reclaim Your Wild, Happy, Healthy Self

“راودني شعور حادّ يتعذّر استعادته الآن على نحو دقيق؛ كان أشبه بشيء يقول إن الحياة كلها ليست سوى مبالغة.”
― عزيز محمد, .الحالة الحرجة للمدعو ك