Quotes from The Almond Tree

“You cannot go back and make a new start, but you can start now and make a new ending”
― Michelle Cohen Corasanti, quote from The Almond Tree

“Hatred is self-punishment. Do you think they're feeling bad because you hate them?”
― Michelle Cohen Corasanti, quote from The Almond Tree

“Good things make choosing difficult.Bad things leave no choice”
― Michelle Cohen Corasanti, quote from The Almond Tree

“Success is not about never falling, but about rising every time you fall”
― Michelle Cohen Corasanti, quote from The Almond Tree

“Courage, I realised, was not the absence of fear: it was the absence of selfishness; putting someone else's interest before one's own.”
― Michelle Cohen Corasanti, quote from The Almond Tree

“He who aims too high will get a sore neck”
― Michelle Cohen Corasanti, quote from The Almond Tree

“Many great men can attribute their success to the fact that they didn't have the advantages other men had”
― Michelle Cohen Corasanti, quote from The Almond Tree

“People hate out of fear and ignorance. If they could just get to know the people they hate, and focus on their common interests, they could overcome that hatred.”
― Michelle Cohen Corasanti, quote from The Almond Tree

“Before you judge a person, try to imagine how you would feel if the same things had happened to you.”
― Michelle Cohen Corasanti, quote from The Almond Tree

“He looked me directly in the eye. 'So you live in America?'
'We do.' I smiled.
He stopped, opened his backpack, pulled out an empty tear gas grenade and handed it to me.
'I believe it was a present from your country.' Majid smiled. 'Tell your friends thanks. We got their grenade.”
― Michelle Cohen Corasanti, quote from The Almond Tree

“Don't allow guilt to enter your heart, because it's a disease, like cancer, that'll eat away at you until there's nothing left.”
― Michelle Cohen Corasanti, quote from The Almond Tree

“The world should have stopped, but it didn't.”
― Michelle Cohen Corasanti, quote from The Almond Tree

“I had no idea words could have so much power and beauty.”
― Michelle Cohen Corasanti, quote from The Almond Tree

“Permission to buy apricots and oranges from my own trees, the ones my great grandfather planted and i kept alive in drought and war”
― Michelle Cohen Corasanti, quote from The Almond Tree

“Throughout history the conquerors have always treated the conquered this way. The bad ones need to believe we're inferior to justify the way they treat us. If they only could realize that we're all the same.”
― Michelle Cohen Corasanti, quote from The Almond Tree

“And it suddenly occured to me that maybe peace was possible.”
― Michelle Cohen Corasanti, quote from The Almond Tree

“Success is not about never failing, but about rising every time you fall.”
― Michelle Cohen Corasanti, quote from The Almond Tree

“Good things make choosing difficult. Bad things leave no choice. [p. 62]”
― Michelle Cohen Corasanti, quote from The Almond Tree

“You cannot go back and make a new start, but you can start now and make a new ending. [p. 115]”
― Michelle Cohen Corasanti, quote from The Almond Tree

“One cannot live on anger, my son.”
― Michelle Cohen Corasanti, quote from The Almond Tree

“The hardest part for us was watching them harvest our Shamouti oranges.Those were our favourites, thick skinned, seedless and juicy.When the wind was strong, the scent of their blossoms in the spring and their fruit in the summer still reached us.”
― Michelle Cohen Corasanti, quote from The Almond Tree

“Wasn't there any balance in the world?”
― Michelle Cohen Corasanti, quote from The Almond Tree

“You cannot go back and make a new start, but you can start now and make a new ending.”
― Michelle Cohen Corasanti, quote from The Almond Tree

“Mut war nicht die Abwesenheit von Angst, sondern die Abwesenheit von Egoismus. Das wurde mir in dem Moment klar. Wenn man die Intressen des anderen über die eigene stellt. Ich hatte Baba falsch eingeschätzt. Er war alles andere als ein Feigling. Wie sollten wir ohne ihn überleben?”
― Michelle Cohen Corasanti, quote from The Almond Tree

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