Anfal Arshad

“I also don’t care if heaven exists or not. But even if it doesn’t exist...I think it’s something that should. It’s more convenient that way. The final destination for those who kept on living despite all of life’s hardships shouldn’t be oblivion. Wouldn’t it be nicer to think that they’re indulging in luxury up in heaven?”
― Kanehito Yamada, Frieren Beyond Journey's End Volume 1-5 Books Collection Set By Kanehito Yamada

“I cannot pretend I am without fear. But my predominant feeling is one of gratitude. I have loved and been loved; I have been given much and I have given something in return; I have read and traveled and thought and written. I have had an intercourse with the world, the special intercourse of writers and readers.

Above all, I have been a sentient being, a thinking animal, on this beautiful planet, and that in itself has been an enormous privilege and adventure.”
― Oliver Sacks, Gratitude

“You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep Spring from coming.”
― Pablo Neruda

“To live on a day-to-day basis is insufficient for human beings; we need to transcend, transport, escape; we need meaning, understanding, and explanation; we need to see over-all patterns in our lives. We need hope, the sense of a future. And we need freedom (or, at least, the illusion of freedom) to get beyond ourselves, whether with telescopes and microscopes and our ever-burgeoning technology, or in states of mind that allow us to travel to other worlds, to rise above our immediate surroundings.

We may seek, too, a relaxing of inhibitions that makes it easier to bond with each other, or transports that make our consciousness of time and mortality easier to bear. We seek a holiday from our inner and outer restrictions, a more intense sense of the here and now, the beauty and value of the world we live in.”
― Oliver Sacks