Ahmed Kotb

“There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that receives it.”
― Edith Wharton

“When adversity threatens to paralyze us, we need to reassert control by finding a new direction in which to invest psychic energy, a direction that lies outside the reach of external forces. When every aspiration is frustrated, a person still must seek a meaningful goal around which to organize the self. Then, even though that person is objectively a slave, subjectively he is free. Solzhenitsyn”
― Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience

“Until It’s Gone

“Some people don’t know what they have until it’s gone.”

“But what about the ones who do know? The ones who never took a damn thing for granted? Who tried their hardest to hold on, yet could only look on helplessly while they lost the thing they loved the most.”

“Isn’t it so much worse for them?”
― Lang Leav, The Universe of Us (Volume 4)

“I have always liked people who can't adapt themselves to life pragmatically.”
― Andrei Tarkovsky, Sculpting in Time