Sàra A.

“يقول المعلم : إن كان لابد أن تبكي .. ابك مثل الأطفال. لقد كنت طفلا ذات يوم .. ومن أوائل الأشياء التي تعلمتها في الحياة هو أن تبكي. البكاء جزء من الحياة. إياك أن تنسى أنك حر .. وأن اظهار عواطفك ليس عارا. اصرخ ! انتحب بصوت عال ! اصنع ما يحلو لك من جلبة ! هكذا يبكي الأطفال ويعرفون أسرع طريقة لكي يعودوا إلى هدوئهم .
هل لاحظت كيف يتوقف الأطفال عن البكاء ؟ يتوقفون لأن شيئا ما جذب اهتمامهم ! شئ ما يدعوهم للمغامرة التالية. الأطفال سرعان ما يتوقفون عن البكاء. هكذا سيكون الأمر بالنسبة لك. لكن ذلك لن يحدث إلا إذا بكيت كالأطفال !”
― Paulo Coelho, Maktub

“At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint, or even remember it. It is enough.”
― Toni Morrison

“Once upon a time, powerful wizard, who wanted to destroy an entire kingdom, placed a magic potion in the well from which the inhabitants drank. Whoever drank that water would go mad.

The following morning, the whole population drank from the well and they all went mad, apart from the king and his family, who had a well set aside for them alone, which the magician had not managed to poison. The king was worried and tried to control the population by issuing a series of edicts governing security and public health. The policemen and the inspectors, however, had also drunk the poisoned water, and they thought the king’s decisions were absurd and resolved to take notice of them.

When the inhabitants of the kingdom heard these decrees, they became convinced that the king had gone mad and was now giving nonsensical orders. The marched on the castle and called for his abdication.

In despair the king prepared to step down from the throne, but the queen stopped him, saying: ‘Let us go and drink from the communal well. Then we will be the same as them.’

And that was what they did: The king and queen drank the water of madness and immediately began talking nonsense. Their subjects repented at once; now that the king was displaying such ‘wisdom’, why not allow him to rule the country?

The country continued to live in peace, although its inhabitants behaved very differently from those of its neighbors. And the king was able to govern until the end of his days.”
― Paulo Coelho, Veronika Decides to Die

“We all live in our own world. But if you look up at the starry sky - you'll see that all the different worlds up there combine to form constellations, solar systems, galaxies.”
― Paulo Coelho, Veronika Decides to Die