Arsalan Khan

“A great free people owes to itself and to all mankind not to sink into helplessness before the powers of evil. I ask that this people rise to the greatness of its opportunities. I do not ask that it seek the easiest path.”
― Harry Turtledove, American Front

“if you study in order to instruct, and herbalize only to become author or professor, all its attractive charms vanish, and plants, being no longer considered but as instruments of our passions, no more real pleasure can result from the study of them. Our end, then, is not to gain knowledge, but to make others sensible of our acquirements;”
― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Reveries of the Solitary Walker

“so true it is that pleasure does not depend on extravagance, and that joy is as readily purchased by pence as pounds.”
― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Reveries of the Solitary Walker

“Happiness has no particular outward sign to discover itself by; we must be able to view the heart before we can be certain who are truly happy; but contentment is to be read in the eyes, the conversation, the accent, the manner, and seems to communicate itself to him that perceives it.”
― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Reveries of the Solitary Walker