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1 " Courage, I realised, was not the absence of fear: it was the absence of selfishness; putting someone else's interest before one's own. "
― Michelle Cohen Corasanti , The Almond Tree
2 " One cannot live on anger, my son. "
3 " He who aims too high will get a sore neck "
4 " Hatred is self-punishment. Do you think they're feeling bad because you hate them? "
5 " You cannot go back and make a new start, but you can start now and make a new ending "
6 " Good things make choosing difficult.Bad things leave no choice "
7 " He looked me directly in the eye. 'So you live in America?''We do.' I smiled.He stopped, opened his backpack, pulled out an empty tear gas grenade and handed it to me. 'I believe it was a present from your country.' Majid smiled. 'Tell your friends thanks. We got their grenade. "
8 " Success is not about never falling, but about rising every time you fall "
9 " Many great men can attribute their success to the fact that they didn't have the advantages other men had "
10 " People hate out of fear and ignorance. If they could just get to know the people they hate, and focus on their common interests, they could overcome that hatred. "
11 " Before you judge a person, try to imagine how you would feel if the same things had happened to you. "
12 " Don't allow guilt to enter your heart, because it's a disease, like cancer, that'll eat away at you until there's nothing left. "
13 " The world should have stopped, but it didn't. "
14 " I had no idea words could have so much power and beauty. "
15 " Permission to buy apricots and oranges from my own trees, the ones my great grandfather planted and i kept alive in drought and war "
16 " Throughout history the conquerors have always treated the conquered this way. The bad ones need to believe we're inferior to justify the way they treat us. If they only could realize that we're all the same. "
17 " Success is not about never failing, but about rising every time you fall. "
18 " Good things make choosing difficult. Bad things leave no choice. [p. 62] "
19 " You cannot go back and make a new start, but you can start now and make a new ending. [p. 115] "
20 " The hardest part for us was watching them harvest our Shamouti oranges.Those were our favourites, thick skinned, seedless and juicy.When the wind was strong, the scent of their blossoms in the spring and their fruit in the summer still reached us. "
