Mariam

“for there is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with someone, for someone, a pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echoes.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.”
― Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“The one thing you can’t take away from me is the way I choose to respond to what you do to me. The last of one’s freedoms is to choose one’s attitude in any given circumstance.”
― Viktor E. Frankl

“Painting is the silence of thought and the music of sight.”
― Orhan Pamuk, My Name Is Red