Marwa

“It is the message, not the man, which is important to the Sufis.”
― Idries Shah, The Sufis

“Have I had two roads, I would have chosen their third.”
― Mahmoud Darwish, In the Presence of Absence

“What is stronger in us — passion or habit? Or are all the violent impulses, all the whirl of our desires and turbulent passions, only the consequence of our ardent age, and is it only through youth that they seem deep and shattering?”
― Nikolai Gogol

“The days have taught you not to trust happiness because it hurts when it deceives.”
― Mahmoud Darwish, A River Dies of Thirst: Journals