“Something in me is broken but people don't realize it because I always smile to hide it.”
― Souad, quote from Burned Alive
“Although I am able to walk about freely, I am a prisoner in my skin.”
― Souad, quote from Burned Alive
“Sometimes laying in my bed, I would think that I should have died because I deserved to.”
― Souad, quote from Burned Alive
“The only way to help me stop suffering was to help me die.”
― Souad, quote from Burned Alive
“But for a mother who was submissive to the degree my mother was, it was OK to kill girls. For a father like mine, it was normal to chop off his daughters hair with sheep shears, and to beat her with a belt or a cane or tie her up in the stable all night with the cows.”
― Souad, quote from Burned Alive
“You're just an object locked up in the house.”
― Souad, quote from Burned Alive
“I was thirsty, as much as for water as for dying.”
― Souad, quote from Burned Alive
Souad
Born place: Palestinian Territory, Occupied
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“There is no one who does not feel that he is imprisoned in some way. If this is the result of his own free will he must regard his will as not free, or the circular reasoning in this position would be quite apparent. Free will must lead to freedom.”
― quote from A Course in Miracles
“We think we grow old, we grow wise and more tolerant; we just grow more lazy.”
― John Fowles, quote from Daniel Martin
“It struck me that Lee was in many ways our true hero. Lee was the one who did the dirtiest jobs, quietly, without fuss, without going into big emotional scenes. He was so efficient, so reliable, so brave. Whenever we fell short, he made up the gap. I'm not just talking about the red hot moments, when enemy soldiers were shooting at us, when we were within a moment of death. I'm talking about the sourer times too, when we were so tired we could hardly remember to breathe, or we were so bored we'd pick at each other just for something to do, or so distressed we'd wish a soldier would come along and blow us into oblivion with an M16. At all those times Lee stood strong. He was like the Wirrawee grain silo. You could see the grain silo from miles away, tall and reliable. It stood for Wirrawee, and it gave you a safe comforting feeling to know it was there. That was how I'd felt about Lee during the war.”
― John Marsden, quote from The Other Side of Dawn
“Life is a school of the spirit, Aidan,” Ruadh intoned with gentle insistence. “Learning is our soul’s requirement, and suffering our most persuasive teacher.”
― Stephen R. Lawhead, quote from Byzantium
“في نمط الكينونة لا يكون التملك الخاص او الملكية الخاصة إلا أهمية وجدانية ضئيلة, حيث لا تنشأ الحاجة لامتلاك شيء لكي أستمتع به, او حتى لكي استعمله واستفيد منه, ففي نمط الكينونة يمكن لأكثر من شخص وفي الحقيقة يمكن لملايين الناس ان يشتركوا في الاستمتاع بالشيء نفسه, حيث لا توجد حاجة, كما لا يرغب أحد في امتلاكه كشرط للاستمتاع به, ولا يعني هذا منع وقوع صراغ فحسب, وانما يعني ايضا خلق اسمى شكل من اشكال السعادة الانسانية الا وهو المتعة المشتركة فليس أقدر على توجيد البشر دون النيل من ذاتيتهم من المشاركة في الاعجاب بشخص او محبته,او المشاركة في الاقتناع بفكرة, او في الطرب لاغنية او لقطعة موسيقية, او الاعجاب بصورة او رمز, او المشاركة في أداء الشعائر, او الاحساس المشترك بالأسى والحزن. إن متعة المشاركة هي التي تحتفظ بالحيوية في العلاقات بين اثنين وهي الأساس الذي قامت عليه كل الديانات وجميع الحركات السياسية والفلسفية الكبرى.”
― Erich Fromm, quote from To Have or to Be? The Nature of the Psyche
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