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Why should I be sad? I have lost someone who didn’t love me. But they lost someone who loved them.

Growth is painful. Change is painful. But nothing is as painful as staying stuck somewhere you don’t belong.

I’ve had so many knives stuck into me, when they hand me a flower I can’t quite make out what it is. It takes time.

He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.

If you hear that someone is speaking ill of you, instead of trying to defend yourself you should say: “He obviously does not know me very well, since there are so many other faults he could have mentioned.

The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself, he becomes wise.

People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.

إذا كان الحب يُعمي عن مساوىء من تُحب، فالبغض يُعمي عن محاسن من تكره.

If love blinds you from seeing the faults of the one you love, then hatred blinds you from seeing the good things in the one you hate.

No, I am not bitter, I am not hateful, and I am not unforgiving. I just don’t like you.

Who in the rainbow can draw the line where the violet tint ends and the orange tint begins? Distinctly we see the difference of the colors, but where exactly does the one first blendingly enter into the other? So with sanity and insanity.

The longer I procrastinate on returning phone calls and emails, the more guilty I feel about it. The guilt I feel causes me to avoid the issue further, which only leads to more guilt and more procrastination. It gets to the point where I don’t email someone for fear of reminding them that they emailed me and thus giving them a reason to be disappointed in me.

In a consumer society there are inevitably two kinds of slaves: the prisoners of addiction and the prisoners of envy.

But because we grew up surrounded by big dramatic story arcs in books and movies, we think our lives are supposed to be filled with huge ups and downs! So people pretend there is drama where there is none.

If you live off a man’s compliments, you’ll die from his criticism.

Most humans are never fully present in the now, because unconsciously they believe that the next moment must be more important than this one. But then you miss your whole life, which is never not now.