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For, if we visited Mars or Venus keeping the same senses, they would clothe in the same aspect as the things of the earth everything that we should be capable of seeing. The only true voyage of discovery, the only fountain of Eternal Youth, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes, to behold the universe through the eyes of another, of a hundred others, to behold the hundred universes that each of them beholds, that each of them is. — Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Times

Emilia Clark in Me before you (2016)🥀

Needless to say, great love is very rare because great individuals are very rare (but surely your mind is telling you right now that you are the exception)

It is not enough to have a noble desire or great ambition; one must be worthy of what he dreams of, and wishes for.

Beware of the average man and the average woman, beware their love. Their love is average, seeks average. — Charles Bukowski

كُن عظيمًا ليختاركَ الحبُّ العظيم، وإلا فَنَصيبُكَ حبٌّ يَسفُّ التراب، ويتمرّغ في الأوحال، فتظَلَّ على ما أنت، أو تهبط به بدلًا مِن أنْ تسمو إلى أبراجٍ لَم تَرَها عين، ولَم تخطُر عجائبُها على قلبِ بشر. — مي زيادة

كتبها بدر شاكر السياب في مدينة الرمادي أثناء عمله مدرسا للغة الانجليزية عام ١٩٤٨م

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Descartes' Error by António R. Damásio / An Aside on Neurochemical Explanations (p.97): The popular antidepressant Prozac, which acts by blocking the reuptake of serotonin and probably increasing its availability, has received wide attention; the notion that low serotonin levels might be correlated with a tendency towards violence has surfaced in the popular press. The problem is that it is not the absence or low amount of serotonin per se that "causes" a certain manifestation. Serotonin is part of an exceedingly complicated mechanism which operates at the level of molecules, synapses, local circuits and systems, and in which sociocultural factors, past and present, also intervene powerfully. A satisfactory explanation can arise only from a more comprehensive view of the entire process, in which the relevant variables of a specific problem, such as depression or social adaptability, are analyzed in detail.

الآباء هم معظم الرجال العاديين الذين حولهم الحُب إلى أبطال، ومغامرين، ورواة قصص، ومغنيين للأغاني، قد نشعر إنهم مرساة تعيقنا، في الوقت الذي يكونون فيه شراعاً توصلنا، هم وحدهم الذين يستطيعون إهدائنا اعظم هبّات الوجود، حينما يؤمنون بنا. - أب عراقيّ يوصل أبنته الى مدرستها في ذي قار أثناء موجة الأمطار والفيضانات.