“All longings the essence for real liberation only,
Freedom from all sides, an ultimate supremacy;
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Source: Devi Mahatmayam in English Rhyme
“Auttakaa!
Yö on pitkä,
koti on kaukana,
kumppani etäällä.”
Source: Runoja kaduilta ja kapakoista
“When we parted, on the Boulevard du Montparnasse, I leaned over to give her a kiss on the cheek. ‘If you do find paradise,’ she said, turning to leave, ‘send me a grape.”
“In the distance,far over there, only the eyes can travel when the body is weary.”
Source: Unconfessed
“The Motto of Champions: If you are hurt, you can suck it up and press on. If injured, you can rebound and return bigger and better...and continue to inspire!”
Source: From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph over Death and Conscious Encounters With the Divine Presence
“كل الحاجات بتفكرني
بعيون حيرتها تحيرني
والذكرى مش بتصبرني
تمر صورتك اتبسم
الابتسامه تعذبني
كل الحاجات حواليا تدور
زي الحيطان بتداري النور
وقلبي من بعد الطيران
ما حيلته الا جناح مكسور
دلوقتي مهما اقول الآه
وانت بعيد مين يسمعني
كل الحاجات الا عيونك ممكن انسى
كل الحاجات من حواليا عارفة وحاسة
ضاع الونس يا قمر غايب
بعدك ماليش اي حبايب
دلوقتي حتى بخاف حزني يبعد عني
كل الحاجات كانت تضحك لما اقابلك
لا عرفت نفسي من قبلك ولا من بعدك
قبلك ماكانليش ولا حاجة
بعدك سنيني محتاجه
ياريت تشوف دمعه صوتي لما أغني”
“The past is devoid of meaning like the present, and a refuge for cowards.”
Source: Maurice
“She didn’t know that my heart was a sandstorm waiting to open her skin in a desert of cuts. She didn’t know the animal that waited in my stomach, silently shredding the walls. For her, my heart wore small white shoes and carried a purse, went to bed early. I wanted to shoot myself into her arms so she understood the need to crash cars with me, to tear up pavement because we were beautiful.”
Source: Valencia
“A person's needs are met, and his appetite subsides. A person's wants are met, and his thirst swells greedily without end.”
Source: Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year
“[T]he radical geographer Iain Boal had prophesied, "The longing for a better world will need to arise at the imagined meeting place of many movements of resistance, as many as there are sites of closure and exclusion. The resistance will be as transnational capitalism.”
Source: Hope in the Dark: The Untold History of People Power