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“..but to me my home was my soul” —Nashwa Rezeq, lived in al-Zahra, Gaza

“They’re afraid of every loud sound and of darkness ” –Amani, 47 years old mother, Gaza city

“How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you was?” – Satchel Paige

Appeler un chat un chat.. to call a cat a cat!

"The darker the night, the brighter the stars; The deeper the grief, the closer is God!" – Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Even if I now saw you only once, I would long for you through worlds, worlds.” ― Izumi Shikibu

“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.” ― Mark Twain

Where the science of medicine meets the art of it

“It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.” ― Robert Louis Stevenson

If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain; If I can ease one life the aching, Or cool one pain, Or help one fainting robin Unto his nest again, I shall not live in vain. –Emily Dickinson

“Emptiness which is conceptually liable to be mistaken for sheer nothingness is in fact the reservoir of infinite possibilities.” ― Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki

Because laughter is the best remedy for any malady

There's STILL an apartheid in Palestine, Kashmiris are STILL in lockdown, Yemen is STILL starving, Syrian children STILL have PTSD, people are STILL trafficked in Libya, Afghans are STILL being persecuted, Malians are STILL malnourished, Venezuelans are STILL fleeing their homeland, Iraqis STILL live in fear, the Palestinians and the Lebanese are STILL being robbed of their future, Ethiopians are STILL dying from hunger, the Uyghur genocide is real and STILL ongoing ..and that's not the last of it, while our world leaders are STILL greedy. Can you fathom what it’s like to be subjected to such man-made terror?

“Let everything happen to you, beauty and terror” -Rainer Maria Rilke

This moment is all our own. We should live this way just building up our day, now and forever. –Now Is Forever, by Eiffel 65

Find out how to concoct a wicked love potion!

Dil badast awar ke Hajj e akbar ast, Az hazaaran Ka’ba ek dil behtar ast — The greater Hajj is finding your heart, Better than a thousand Ka’bas is a heart

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It is bad enough that people are dying of AIDS, but no one should die of ignorance. – Elizabeth Taylor

The ordinary (and the tomfoolery) behind an otherworldly genius🤩, & how to leave the planet!