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“Hawks aren’t social animals like dogs or horses; they understand neither coercion nor punishment. The only way to tame them is through positive reinforcement with gifts of food. You want the hawk to eat the food you hold – it’s the first step in reclaiming her that will end with you being hunting partners.”
― Helen Macdonald, H is for Hawk

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“He must find things he cannot lose”
― Ernest Hemingway

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“الصوفى منقطع عن الخلق غير متصل بالحق كما قال الله لموسى عليه السلام ( واصطنعتك لنفسى ) قطعه عن كل غير ثم قال لن ترانى”
― عبد الملك الخركوشي, تهذيب الأسرار في أصول التصوف

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“I fell in love with him, and it made no sense for me to fall in love with him. We could not possibly have been more different. But maybe that’s where love grows best—in the deep space that exists between polarities.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, City of Girls

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“Though White had fled from the world of school, he never escaped the models it had given him on how to conduct his life. At school you had to pass tests and ordeals to prove you were brave. You tested your bravery in the playing fields, and through the beatings by masters and prefects. And there were the ceremonies of cruelty of the boys themselves: the initiations and ordeals that were the price of entrance into the school, and later into boys’ secret societies”
― Helen Macdonald, H is for Hawk

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