Zineb Fafa

“Si tu veux progresser, accepte de passer pour un ignorant et un idiot dans tout ce qui concerne les choses extérieures ; n'essaie jamais d'avoir l'air instruit. Si certains ont bonne opinion de toi, méfie-toi. Tu dois savoir qu'il n'est pas facile de suivre ce qu'enjoint la nature en s'attachant aux objets extérieurs : si tu poursuis l'un de ces objectifs, il est inévitable que tu négliges l'autre.”
― Epictète

“She scoured the Earth, wandering and ravenous, looking for doors. And she found them. She found them in abandoned churches and the salt-rimed walls of caves, in graveyards and behind fluttering curtains in foreign markets. She found so many her imagining of the world grew lacy and tattered with holes, like a mouse-chewed map.”
― Alix E. Harrow, The Ten Thousand Doors of January

“A hundred years from now, folks will look back at this time period and think, Wow, what an incredible moment it must’ve been to be alive. Syrian refugees, human trafficking, climate change—the whole world is out there waiting to be saved. And you’ll have a grand adventure doing it, even if only in what you consider a small, locally based way. You know, you already have as a teacher.”
― Ray Smith, The Magnolia That Bloomed Unseen

“However, if I were to let my life be taken over by what is urgent, I might very well never get around to what is essential. It's so easy to spend your whole time being preoccupied with urgent matters and never starting to live, really live.”
― Henri J.M. Nouwen, Letters to Marc About Jesus: Living a Spiritual Life in a Material World