Youssef Assad (يوسف اسعد)

“ Every path is the right path. Everything could've been anything else. And it would have just as much meaning.”
― Mr. Nobody

“I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. Aristotle”
― Gary Wilson, Your Brain On Porn: Internet Pornography and the Emerging Science of Addiction

“The greatest obstacle to living is expectancy, which hangs upon tomorrow and loses today. You are arranging what is in Fortune's control and abandoning what lies in yours.”
― Seneca, On the Shortness of Life: Life Is Long if You Know How to Use It

“A Buddhist story is that a man came shouting angrily at Buddha, who remained unaffected by him. When questioned by others as to how he remained calm and unaffected, Buddha answered with a question. “If someone gives you a gift and you choose not to receive it, to whom then does the gift belong?” Of course it stays with the giver. So it was with words that were still unjustly dumped onto me sometimes. I stopped taking them on and instead I felt compassion. After all, those words were not coming from a place of happiness.”
― Bronnie Ware, The Top Five Regrets of the Dying: A Life Transformed by the Dearly Departing