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21 " Should we be guided by our limits or our priorities? "
― , The Bad Muslim Discount
22 " A man can life a good life wherever he finds himself, I think.""But not an easy one. "
23 " The choices we make are ultimately always about ourselves, about who we are, instead of other people, don't you think? I did what I had to do to be who I am. "
24 " The sea speaks to you when you’re born by the ocean. It sings to you. If you stand still, just out of reach of the water for long enough, you begin to sense a small echo of the infinite inside yourself, and in the violent crashing and breaking of waves you begin to feel at peace. It was something I would miss. "
25 " The world is difficult sometimes for restless minds and imaginative hearts. Things go easier for you if you do what you’re told, when you’re told, and never ask any questions. "
26 " Humanity, as a whole, has a lot of practice in dealing with death. Only individuals struggle with it. "
27 " There is no true measure of pain. Each hurt is unique, "
28 " We live on stolen land,' I finally said, 'in a country built on slavery and reliant on the continued economic exploitation of other people. The oppressor always lives in fear of the oppressed. Americans have always been afraid-of those native to this continent, of Black people, or Japanese citizens they interned, and now of Muslims and immigrants. So the real question, I think, is who is next? "
29 " We don’t take from the world what we can’t give back to it. "
30 " damage we do to each other, to the world, survives us. In the time we have, we must consider the consequences of "
31 " There's not a single moment of my life that has not been better because you were with me. And that is all we are. Moments. You and I and everyone. That's what life is. It's just time, and it's ending, Zuha. Everyone is ending. Who really cares what anyone else thinks? We have to steal our happiness in the time we've been given. And you're right. The past is messed up. It's broken. So what? Time doesn't care about that. Time keeps happening and we can do it right moving forward because time's like water, like a river, like the monsoon. Its like the rain. You can't break the rain. "
32 " It’s probably not as hot as hell but it is definitely as bad as the sketchier neighborhoods of purgatory, "