The pursuit of exotic beauty in such a life would have been like having a ball of tinfoil in your stomach, all that airy metal filling you up with hunger.

your life can change in an instant. that instant can last forever.

Heartbreak could be lived with if it weren't accompanied by regret.

We must imagine our lives well. We must engage our conscience. Conscience is the voice of God in the nature and heart of man.

My mother was always in the center of her own agitation, seeming as though, far away, part of her was being chased along a dirt road by a swarm of bees.

Live simply, laugh joyfully, love tremendously, and leave silently.

It is better to err on the side of feeling.

It is intoxicating joy for the sufferer to look away from his suffering and to forget himself.

Educational success should be measured by how strong your desire is to keep learning.

Beauty isn't about looking perfect. It's about celebrating your individuality.

Call on your Lord when your heart is brittle, that is a time when it's in pieces and the Light of Allah can fill the gaps. That is why Allāh is with the broken hearted.

But memory, after a time, dispenses its own emphasis, making a feuilleton of what we once thought most ponderable, laying its wreath on what we never thought to recall.

If we are not using our brains' capacity for challenge it feels to me as though it atrophies like an unused muscle.

Freedom means you're free to do just whatever pleases you; if, of course that is to say, what you please is what you may.

Education is more valuable than money, in the long run.