Zara Pluto

“Remember, your destiny has been foretold long ago. You just have to stand up and seize it.”
― Merlin Franco, Saint Richard Parker

“The wars will end and the leaders will shake hands, and that old woman will remain waiting for her martyred son, and that girl will wait for her beloved husband, and the children will wait for their heroic father, I do not know who sold the homeland but I know who paid the price.”
― Mahmoud Darwish

“The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image. If in loving them we do not love what they are, but only their potential likeness to ourselves, then we do not love them.”
― Thomas Merton

“Here’s what Buddha left out, if I may be so bold: before the mind can create the world, the world creates our minds.”
― Gabor Mate, The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture