Homa

“پیش از تمام شدن سال می آیی
پیش از تمام شدن ماه
پیش از تمام شدن هفته
پیش از تمام شدن این روز
پیش از مرگ این لحظه
پیش از این که به گریه بیفتم
سرانجام می آیی
پیش از اینکه این شعر به پایان رسد
پیش از آن که مرگ از راه رسد
تو پیش از عشق
تو پیش از مرگ
تو از همه زودتر خواهی رسید”
― جبران خلیل جبران

“Assimilate ubiquitously. Doublethink.
To deliberately believe in lies, while knowing they're false.
Examples of this in everyday life: "oh, I need to be pretty to be happy. I need surgery to be pretty. I need to be thin, famous, fashionable.". Our young men today are being told that women are **, **, things to be **, beaten, **, and shamed. This is a marketing holocaust. Twenty-fours hours a day for the rest of our lives, the powers that be are hard at work dumbing us to death.
So to defend ourselves, and fight against assimilating this dullness into our thought processes, we must learn to read. To stimulate our own imagination, to cultivate our own consciousness, our own belief systems. We all need skills to defend, to preserve, our own minds.”
― Henry Barthes

“The good life is not found in dreams of progress,but in coping with tragic contingencies.We have been reared on religions and philosophies that deny the experience of tragedy.Can we imagine a life that is not founded on the consolations of action?Or are we too lax and coarse even to dream of living without them?”
― John Gray

“The practice of Detachment encourages the positive aspects of your life to become dominant, while providing a clear path for the negative aspects to recede.”
― Gary Hopkins