Maryam

“آمنٌ مِن كل خيباتِ الأمل
خيرُ الجمال هو الجمالُ المحتمل
والنقصُ أشبه بالكمالِ من الكمال
و رُب قولٍ عندما نقصَ ... اكتمل”
― تميم البرغوثي

“I marveled at the beauty of all life and savored the power and possibilities of my imagination. In these rare moments, I prayed, I danced, and I analyzed. I saw that life was good and bad, beautiful and ugly. I understood that I had to dwell on the good and beautiful in order to keep my imagination, sensitivity, and gratitude intact. I knew it would not be easy to maintain this perspective. I knew I would often twist and turn, bend and crack a little, but I also knew that…I would never completely break.”
― Maria Nhambu, Africa's Child

“This is one more piece of advice I have for you: don't get impatient. Even if things are so tangled up you can't do anything, don't get desperate or blow a fuse and start yanking on one particular thread before it's ready to come undone. You have to realize it's going to be a
long process and that you'll work on things slowly, one at a time.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“إنك إن صبرت جرت عليك المقادير وأنت مأجور، وإن جزعت جرت عليك المقادير وأنت مأزور”
― علي بن أبي طالب