من يرفع عصى التِرحال --- مهما طال يُنزِلها
فإن رُمتَ الحُضورَ اليوم --- فالأيّامُ قدْ حَضَرَت
متى ما تَلقَى مَنْ تَهْوَى --- دَعِ الدنيّا و أهْمِلها

"I say no shirt, no shoes, no salvation"

" Stupid is as stupid does. "

- Forrest Gump😂💚

Aniva lighthouse, Sakhalin, Russia.
date: may 2017
Photo by Yaroslav Shuraev

🌏 46° 01′ 04.15″ N, 143° 24′ 50.34″ E

“There are two ways in which one can own a book. The first is the property right you establish by paying for it, just as you pay for clothes and furniture. But this act of purchase is only the prelude to possession. Full ownership comes only when you have made it a part of yourself, and the best way to make yourself a part of it is by writing in it.” -Mortimer Adler.

“You buy a beefsteak and transfer it from the butcher’s icebox to your own. But you do not own the beefsteak in the most important sense until you consume it and get it in your bloodstream. I am arguing that books, too, must be absorbed in your bloodstream to do you any good.”
-Mortimer Adler.

“Most of us have been taken in by the notion that the speed of reading is a measure of our intelligence. There is so no such thing as the right speed for intelligent reading. Some things should be read quickly and effortlessly, and some should be read slowly and even laboriously. The sign of intelligence in reading is the ability to read different things according to their worth. In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through you—- how many you can make your own.” -Mortimer Adler.

"I can't remember the books I've read more than the meals I've eaten. even so, they've made me"

- Ralph W. Emerson

"It's a truly lucky man who knows what he wants to do in this world, because that man will never work a day in his life."

- Carroll Shelby (Ford v Ferrari)

[Referring to his medal]
Schofield: I swapped it with a French captain.
Blake: You swapped it? For what?
Schofield: Bottle of wine.
Blake: What did you do that for?
Schofield: I was thirsty.
Blake: What a waste. You should’ve taken it home with you. You should’ve given it to your family. Men have died for that.
Blake: If I got a medal, I’d take it back home. Why didn’t you just take it home with you?
Schofield: Look, it’s just a bit of bloody tin. It doesn’t make you special. It doesn’t make any difference to anyone.
Blake: Yes, it does. And it’s not just a bit of tin. It’s got a ribbon on it.
Schofield: I hated going home. I hated it. When I knew I couldn’t stay. When I knew I had to leave, and they might never see me.

-1917

"Vase Market" by Edwin Lord Weeks

" Do you think you were born with a monopoly on the truth? "

- 12 Angry Men