Omar Bajaber

“...I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire...I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all of your breath trying to conquer it. Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.”
― William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury

“we have to go forth in order to come back, plunge into time in order to be born anew, and roam the world in order to get back to ourselves at last.”
― Tariq Ramadan, The Quest For Meaning

“Idleness is not just a vacation, an indulgence or a vice; it is as indispensable to the brain as vitamin D is to the body, and deprived of it we suffer a mental affliction as disfiguring as rickets … it is, paradoxically, necessary to getting any work done.”
― Cal Newport, Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World

“I ain’t grouchy,’ Teft snapped. ‘I just have a low threshold for stupidity.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Words of Radiance