Doha

“Michael had once read to her how God had cast a man and woman out of paradise. Yet, for all their human faults and failures. God had shown them the way back in.”
― Francine Rivers, Redeeming Love

“I was glad of Maudi's companionship at first, but companionship can be a very expensive thing when one has to give up one's privacy for it, my dear. And I always set great store by my privacy”
― Betty E. Spence, The Family At the Yellow House

“أما لو أعِي كلَّ ما أسمَع ... وأحفَظُ من ذاكَ ما أجمعُ
ولم أستَفِدْ غَيْرَ ما قد جمعــتُ ... لَقِيلَ هو العالِم المِصقَع
ولكنَّ نفسي إلى كلّ نو ... عٍ من العلم تسمعُه تنزِعُ
فلا أنا أحفظُ ما قد جمعــتُ ... ولا أنا مِن جَمعه أشبعُ
وأحصَر بالعِيِّ في مجلسي ... وعِلميَ في الكُتْبِ مستودَعُ
فمن يكُ في علمِه هكذا ... يكنْ دهرَهُ القهقَرَى يرجِعُ
إذا لم تكنْ حافظاً واعياً ... فجمعُك للكتبِ لا ينفع”
― محمد بن يسير

“This idea that children won't learn without outside rewards and penalties, or in the debased jargon of the behaviorists, "positive and negative reinforcements," usually becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. If we treat children long enough as if that were true, they will come to believe it is true. So many people have said to me, "If we didn't make children do things, they wouldn't do anything." Even worse, they say, "If I weren't made to do things, I wouldn't do anything."

It is the creed of a slave.”
― John Holt, How Children Fail