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“But perhaps the the great work of art has less importance in itself than in the ordeal it demands of a man and the opportunity it provides him of overcoming his phantoms and approaching a little closer to his naked reality.”
― Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays

“Intelligence without the ability to give and receive affection leads to mental and moral breakdown, to neurosis, and possibly even psychosis. And I say that the mind absorbed in and involved in itself as a self-centered end, to the exclusion of human relationships, can only lead to violence and pain.”
― Daniel Keyes

“We may know who we are or we may not
We may be Muslims, Jews or Christians
but until our hearts become the mould for every for every heart
we will only see our differences”
― Rumi, Rumi's Little Book of Love: 150 Poems That Speak to the Heart

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Trauma is an indivisible part of human existence. it takes many forms but spares no one.”
― Mark Epstein, M.D.

“Trauma, if it doesn't destroy us, wakes us up both to our own relational capacities and to the suffering of others. Not only does it makes us hurt, it makes us more human, caring, and wise.”
― Mark Epstein, M.D.

“When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche