JameelAhsanZmeel

I am not a teacher
To teach you how to love,
For fish need no teacher
To teach them to swim
And birds need no teacher
To teach them flight.
Swim on your own.
Fly on your own.
Love has no textbooks
And history's greatest lovers were illiterate.

- Nizar Qabbani

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If you are my friend help me to leave you. Or if you are my lover help me so I can be healed of you.
If I knew that the ocean is very deep, I would not have swam.
If I knew how I would end, I would not have began.
I desire you so teach me not to desire. Teach me how to cut the roots of your love from the depths.
Teach me how tears may die in the eyes and love may commit suicide.

- Letter From Under The Sea - NIZAR QABBANI

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“You should never let your fears prevent you from doing what you know is right.”

- Aung San Suu Kyi

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"...Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn't serve the world. There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we're liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others."

- 'A Return To Love' (1992) by Marianne Williamson, quoted by Nelson Mandela in his inaugural speech

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