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Intro and outro music: Vitamin String Quartet
“They’re afraid of every loud sound and of darkness ” –Amani, 47 years old mother, Gaza city
"The darker the night, the brighter the stars; The deeper the grief, the closer is God!"
– Fyodor Dostoevsky
“Even if I now saw you only once, I would long for you through worlds, worlds.” ― Izumi Shikibu
“It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson
If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain; If I can ease one life the aching, Or cool one pain, Or help one fainting robin Unto his nest again, I shall not live in vain. –Emily Dickinson
“Emptiness which is conceptually liable to be mistaken for sheer nothingness is in fact the reservoir of infinite possibilities.”
― Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki
This moment is all our own. We should live this way just building up our day, now and forever. –Now Is Forever, by Eiffel 65
There's STILL an apartheid in Palestine, Kashmiris are STILL in lockdown, Yemen is STILL starving, Syrian children STILL have PTSD, people are STILL trafficked in Libya, Afghans are STILL being persecuted, Malians are STILL malnourished, Venezuelans are STILL fleeing their homeland, Iraqis STILL live in fear, the Lebanese are STILL being robbed of their future, Ethiopians are STILL dying from hunger, the Uyghur genocide is real and STILL ongoing ..and that's not the last of it, while our world leaders are STILL greedy. Can you fathom what it’s like to be subjected to such man-made terror?
Dil badast awar ke Hajj e akbar ast, Az hazaaran Ka’ba ek dil behtar ast — The greater Hajj is finding your heart, Better than a thousand Ka’bas is a heart
It is bad enough that people are dying of AIDS, but no one should die of ignorance. – Elizabeth Taylor
The ordinary (and the tomfoolery) behind an otherworldly genius🤩, & how to leave the planet!
A most endearing declaration of innocent love, amidst the Yorkshire moors! Hop on to find out