Darya Saudade

“تو مثل لاله‌ی پیش از طلوع دامنه‌ها
- که سر به صخره گذارد،
غریبی و پاکی
تو را، ز وحشت توفان، به سینه می‌فشرم
عجب سعادت غمناکی!”
― منوچهر آتشی, آواز خاک

“When the people shall have nothing more to eat, they will eat the rich.”
― Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“We cannot be deaf to the question: 'Do I love this world so well that I have to know how it ends?”
― W.H. Auden, The Age of Anxiety: A Baroque Eclogue

“In this way, moral formation is not individual; it is relational. Character is not something you build sitting in a room thinking about the difference between right and wrong and about your own willpower. Character emerges from our commitments. If you want to inculcate character in someone else, teach them how to form commitments—temporary ones in childhood, provisional ones in youth, permanent ones in adulthood. Commitments are the school for moral formation. When your life is defined by fervent commitments, you are on the second mountain.”
― David Brooks, The Second Mountain: The Quest for a Moral Life