Ali Elmango

“Be tolerant with others and strict with yourself.”
― Marcus Aurelius

“فضحَ الموتُ الدنيا ، فلم يترك لذي لُبٍ فيها فرحًا ، و ما ألزم عبدٌ قلبه الموت إلّا صغرت الدنيا عليه ، و هان عليه جميع ما فيها .”
― الحسن البصري

“أنا حين وُلدت..ولدت وحدي
و حين أموت .. أموت وحدي
و حين أوضع في القبر... أوضع وحدي
و حين أحاسب بين يديه تعالى أُحاسب وحدي
فإن دخلت النار دخلت وحدي ... وإن دخلت الجنة دخلت وحدي
فمالي و الناس؟”
― الحسن البصري

“It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were. And sometimes you didn't want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it’s only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you. That meant something, even if you were too small to understand why. But I think, Mr. Frodo, I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn’t. They kept going, because they were holding on to something. That there is some good in this world, and it's worth fighting for.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien