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“It is easy to mourn the lives we aren't living. Easy to wish we'd developed other other talents, said yes to different offers. Easy to wish we'd worked harder, loved better, handled our finances more astutely, been more popular, stayed in the band, gone to Australia, said yes to the coffee or done more bloody yoga.
It takes no effort to miss the friends we didn't make and the work we didn't do the people we didn't do and the people we didn't marry and the children we didn't have. It is not difficult to see yourself through the lens of other people, and to wish you were all the different kaleidoscopic versions of you they wanted you to be. It is easy to regret, and keep regretting, ad infinitum, until our time runs out.
But it is not lives we regret not living that are the real problem. It is the regret itself. It's the regret that makes us shrivel and wither and feel like our own and other people's worst enemy.
We can't tell if any of those other versions would of been better or worse. Those lives are happening, it is true, but you are happening as well, and that is the happening we have to focus on.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

“تمنيت ان اعفو عنه ولا كن العفو لا ياتي دفعه واحده كهديه مغلفه بشريط احمرانما ياتي تدريجيا بالاضافه الي ذلك لن يمحو العفو اثار الالم اللذي سببه لي سوف يلازمني هذا الالم ما حيت لاكن هذا العفو سيساعدني ان اتسامي عن الماضي اواجه كل ما حذث كان عليه ان اصرفه عن ذهني كلي احرر نفسي منه
" مارينا”
― مارينا نعمت, Prisoner of Tehran

“أظن أن كل كائن بشري يُولد بنصيب محدد من القدرة على الضجر ، ولاشك في أن البعض تكون من نصيبهم حصة أكبر من آخرين ، ولكني أظن أنه علينا أن نكون منتبهين إلى اللحظة التي تأخذ فيها حصتنا بالنفاذ ، علينا أن نلحظ ذلك في الوقت المناسب .. فإذا لم تنتبهي يمكن لكِ أن تنهاري فجأة بطرق شديدة الشؤم .. إنتبهي ! هل عشتِ حصتك من الضجر كاملة ؟”
― Marcela Serrano, Diez mujeres

“تنفّست الصعداء، و توقف قلبها عن الغفران.”
― Jokha Alharthi, Celestial Bodies