Sophia Mahmoud

“The chief thing is to love others like yourself, that's the chief thing, and that's everything; nothing else is wanted--you will find out at once how to arrange it all. And yet it's an old truth which has been told and retold a billion times--but it has not formed part of our lives!”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Dream of the Ridiculous Man

“We take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.”
― Cynthia Ozick

“It is the storm that propels a ship to its destination.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“by many-sided or fluent argumentation; philosophy teaches us to act, not to speak; it exacts of every man that he should live according to his own standards, that his life should not be out of harmony with his words, and that, further, his inner life should be of one hue and not out of harmony with all his activities.”
― Seneca, Letters from a Stoic