"The land and everything on it can be taken away, but no one can take away your knowledge or the degrees you earn"

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Source : Susan Abulhawa (2010). “Mornings in Jenin”, p.49, Bloomsbury Publishing

Susan Abulhawa

#Taken Quotes #Land Quotes #Degrees Quotes

“All change brings bad things and good things to replace the bad and good things that were before. It is natural to look back and say it was better beforeâ€”but that does not make it true. Different is not worse. It is just different.”
“Sometimes I could quit paint and take to charring. It must be fine to clean perfectly, to shine and polish and know that it could not be done better. In painting that never occurs.”
“My parents survived the Great Depression and brought me up to live within my means, save some for tomorrow, share and don't be greedy, work hard for the necessities in life knowing that money does not make you better or more important than anyone else. So, extravagance has been bred out of my DNA.”
“How infinitely happier and more grateful is the whole personality or spirit when it finds something nourishing in art or writing or thinking, than the mere mind or intellect is: the kinship you celebrate in these personalities is your own dismembered Orpheus stumbling across another fine organ to rejoin to itself. I put it this way: aristic psyche loves itself enough to chasten itself, to put itself through boot camp for the sake of being competent for life, alive to life.”
“Great teachers will never be able to make up for bad parents, nor should they be expected to.”

Source : Taylor Mali (2012). “What Teachers Make: In Praise of the Greatest Job in the World”, p.17, Penguin
“If you were music I would listen to you ceaselessly Â Â Â Â Â Â And my low spirits would brighten up.”
“I basically go to the gym three times a week to do weight training for one or two hours.”
“But then, life is a constant withering of possibilities. Some are stolen with the lives of people you love. Others are let go, with regret and reluctance and deep, deep sorrow. But there is compensation for lives unlived in the intoxicating joy of knowing that the life you have - right here, right now - if the one you have chosen. There is power in that, and hope.”

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