Isn't connecting people to distant lands and culture one of the strengths of good literature?

If you want to experience eternal illumination, put the past and the future out of your mind and remain within the present moment.

After the Ankara bombings on October 10, people were asked to hold a minute of silence, but many refused. Our society can't even unite in grief to honor the victims. We've lost our empathy. That's maybe the worst.

Whatever happens in your life, no matter how troubling things might seem, do not enter the neighborhood of despair. Even when all doors remain closed, God will open up a new path only for you. Be thankful!

Either grant me the bliss of the ignorant or give me the strength to bear the knowledge.

Perhaps this is why lunatics have a harder time dating, not because they are off the wall but because it is hard to find soemone who is willing to date so many people in one person.

The past lives within the present, and our ancestors breathe through our children.