Nour Qudeimat

“تقولين لي أنك تخافين الحب
لماذا تخافينه يا صغيرتي ؟
أتخافين نور الشمس ؟
أتخافين مدّ البحر ؟
أتخافين طلوع الفجر ؟
أتخافين مجيء الربيع؟
لماذا يا ترى تخافين الحب ؟”
― جبران خليل جبران, Love Letters in the Sand: The Love Poems of Khalil Gibran

“If you want to understand what’s most important to a society, don’t examine its art or literature, simply look at its biggest buildings.” In medieval societies, the biggest buildings were its churches and palaces; using Campbell’s method, we can assume these were feudal cultures that revered their leaders and worshipped God. In modern Western cities, the biggest buildings are the banks—bloody great towers that dominate the docklands—and the shopping centers, which architecturally ape the cathedrals they’ve replaced: domes, spires, eerie celestial calm, fountains for fonts, food courts for pews.”
― Russell Brand, Revolution

“لاشيء يدخل البهجة إلى قلب مريض كالحديث عن آلامه”
― غابرييل غارسيا ماركيز, Love in the Time of Cholera

“In the U.S., the 400 richest people have as much as 185 million people, over 60 percent of the population. As absurd as that is, on a global scale, the richest 85 people have as much as 3.5 billion people, half of humanity!”
― Russell Brand, Revolution