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“If you love deeply, you’re going to get hurt badly. But it’s still worth it.”

— C.S. Lewis 

“Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It’s not something you learn in school. But if you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven’t learned anything.”

— Muhammad Ali 

“Your body is the house you grew up in. How dare you try to burn it to the ground.”

— Sierra Demulder 

لك مني كلّ شيء

لك ظل لك ضوء

خاتم العرس، و ما شئت

و حاكورة زيتون و تين

For you I have everything:

Both shade and light

And a wedding ring

And even an orchard of olive and fig trees.

- Mahmoud Darwish

“To me, forgiveness is the cornerstone of healing.”

— Sylvia Fraser 

Palestinians inspect the damage of their destroyed homes following attacks from Israel. Beit Hanoun, Gaza, Palestine.   Photograph: Khalil Hamra

"If a writer falls in love with you, you can never die."

—Mik Everett

“I wasn’t actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Hurt people hurt people. That’s how pain patterns gets passed on, generation after generation after generation. Break the chain today. Meet anger with sympathy, contempt with compassion, cruelty with kindness. Greet grimaces with smiles. Forgive and forget about finding fault. Love is the weapon of the future.”

— Yehuda Berg 

“Nobody loved her and she wouldn’t have liked it if they had, for she considered love a serious disability.”

— Toni Morrison