Sameh

“Life goes on. people pass along. nothing stays the same. the lord gives and the lord takes away. thats the way he is...!”
― Terrence Malick

“No one can construct for you the bridge upon which precisely you must cross the stream of life, no one but you yourself alone.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Never will he understand the sufferings of another, who has not experienced them himself, though he have divine Reason and the nature of a genuine devil!”
― G.I. Gurdjieff, Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson

“When my grandmother—may she attain the Kingdom of Heaven—was dying, my mother, as was then the custom, took me to her bedside and, as I kissed her right hand, my dear grandmother placed her dying left hand on my head and said in a whisper, yet very distinctly: “Eldest of my grandsons! Listen and always remember my strict injunction to you: In life never do as others do.” Having said this, she gazed at the bridge of my nose and, evidently noticing my perplexity and my obscure understanding of what she had said, added somewhat angrily and imperiously: “Either do nothing—just go to school—or do something nobody else does Whereupon she immediately, without hesitation and with a perceptible impulse of disdain for all around her, and with commendable self-cognizance, gave up her soul directly into the hands of His Faithfulness, the Archangel Gabriel.”
― G.I. Gurdjieff, Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson