Dima Ballouk

“But we have other lives, I think, I hope,’ she murmured. 'We live in others, … We live in things.”
― Virginia Woolf, Between the Acts

“هذه هي الصلاة من وجهة نظر المؤمن، مقابلة مع الله، و مناجاة و دعاء، و ما أعظمها لحظات يتيحها الله لنا نخلص فيها من وطأة الحياة و مصاعبها، لكي نلجأ إليه سبحانه .. و ندعوه، و نستهديه و نستلهمه الصواب.”
― حسن توفيق شريف, بني الإسلام على خمس

“Tenderness is not weakness; it is fortitude.”
― Pope Francis

“A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other. A solemn consideration, when I enter a great city by night, that every one of those darkly clustered houses encloses its own secret; that every room in every one of them encloses its own secret; that every beating heart in the hundreds of thousands of breasts there, is, in some of its imaginings, a secret to the heart nearest it!”
― Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities