fatma barakat

“Everything that happens to you is a form of instruction if you pay attention.”
― Robert Greene, Mastery

“قال الدرويش: كل ما فاتك من الله سوى الله يسير، وكل حظ لك من الله سوى الله قليل”
― أحمد بهجت, الأمير والدرويش: ترانيم صوفية

“Making assumptions and then taking them personally is the beginning of hell in this world. Almost all of our conflicts are based on this, and it’s easy to understand why. Assumptions are nothing more than lies that we are telling ourselves. This creates a big drama for nothing, because we don’t really know if something is true or not. Making assumptions is just looking for drama when there’s no drama happening. And if drama is happening in someone else’s story, so what? It’s not your story; it’s someone else’s story.”
― Miguel Ruiz, The Fifth Agreement: A Practical Guide to Self-Mastery

“Fortune does favor the bold and you'll never know what you're capable of if you don't try.”
― Sheryl Sandberg, Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead