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“ليس الشديد بالصرعة؛ إنما الشديد الذي يملك نفسه عند الغضب
The strong person is not the good wrestler. Rather,the strong person is the one who controls himself when he is angry.
(Sahih al-Bukhari, Book 73, #135)”
― Anonymous

“ The biggest enemy of your learning is the gnawing worry that you’re not “doing it right.” Dissertation work tends to encourage that.”
― Matthew B. Miles, Qualitative Data Analysis: A Methods Sourcebook

“the process of writing is always a healing process because the function of creation is always, always, the alleviation of pain—the writer’s, first of all, and then the pain of those who read what she has written. Imagination is compassionate. Writing is a form of making, and making humanizes the world.1”
― Richard Rhodes, How to Write: Advice and Reflections

“When someone you love says goodbye you can stare long and hard at the door they closed and forget to see all the doors God has open in front of you.”
― Shannon Alder