"Be 100% Responsible for Your Little Me"

"When we decorated our hands with henna for holidays and weddings, we drew calculus and chemical formulae instead of flowers and butterflies."

"Now, every morning when I open my eyes, I long to see my old room full of my things, my clothes all over the floor and my school prizes on the shelves."

"Words are a homeland."

"I want to find a language that transforms language itself into steel for the spirit--a language to use against these sparkling insects, these jets."

"The stars had only one task: they taught me how to read. They taught me I had a language in heaven and another language on earth."

"We are captives, even if our wheat grows over the fences/ and swallows rise from our broken chains./ We are captives of what we love, what we desire, and what we are."

"If the Olive Trees knew the hands that planted them, Their Oil would become Tears."

"I am from there. I am from here. I am not there and I am not here. I have two names, which meet and part, and I have two languages. I forget which of them I dream in."

There are only two ways to live your life: as though nothing is a miracle, or as though everything is a miracle.

Distinguish between real needs and artificial wants and control the latter.

What lies ahead of you & what lies behind you is nothing compared to what lies within you.

If you're going to be a bear, be a grizzly.

An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.

The only tyrant I accept is the still, small voice within me.

Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. But all other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service which is rendered in a spirit of joy.

If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.

No one can ride on the back of a man unless it is bent.

There would be nothing to frighten you if you refused to be afraid.

Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment. Full effort is full victory.

The only difference between man and man all the world over is one of degree, and not of kind, even as there is between trees of the same species. Where in is the cause for anger, envy or discrimination?

The path is the goal.

Live simply so that others may simply live.

Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.