Noor Rafat:
CLASS OF 2011
Global Connections High SchoolClass of 2011
Seattle, WA
Noor's Story
Noor's schools include Global Connections High School.
Music Noor likes includes محمد محسن - mohamed mohsen, Sara Bareilles, John Legend. Books she likes include Dan Brown, Paulo Coelho, Interesting Things. Movies she likes include Date Night, Black Swan, Now You See Me. TV shows she likes include The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, Cosmos, The Ellen DeGeneres Show.
One of Noor's favorite quotes is:""To err is human...to forgive is divine"
"Life's too short to take too seriously"
"Tanesh Ta3esh Tanta3esh"
"All the world's a stage"
"A great civilization is not conquered from without, until it has destroyed itself from within."
"A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it, or explore an explosive idea without fear it will go off in your face. It is one of the few havens remaining where a man's mind can get both provocation and privacy."
"There are none so blind as those who will not see. The most deluded people are those who choose to ignore what they already know."
"Veritas Odium Parit"
"It has been said that something as small as the flutter of a butterfly's wings can ultimately cause a typhoon halfway around the world." -chaos theory-
"A river cuts through rock, not because of it's strength but it's persistence."
"Veni, vidi, vici"
"When people see good, they expect good. And I don't wanna live up to anyone's expectations."
"We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone."
“Some of the greatest battles will be fought within the silent chambers of your own soul.”
“I’m not insane, I’m voluntarily indifferent to conventional rationality”
— Jared Leto <3
"Not all those who wander are lost."
"You wouldn't worry so much about what others think of you if you realize how seldom they do."
" I am a horse for single harness, not cut out for tandem or team work. I have never belonged wholeheartedly to country or state, to my circle of friends, or even to my own family. These ties have always been accompanied by a vague aloofness, and the wish to withdraw into myself increases with the years. Such isolation is sometime...Expand for more
s bitter, but I do not regret being cut off from the understanding and sympathy of other men. I lose something by it, to be sure, but I am compensated for it in being rendered independent of the customs, opinions, and prejudices of others, and am not tempted to rest my peace of mind upon such shifting foundations. "
♠ Albert Einstein <3
"When we don't know who to hate, we hate ourselves."
"What makes Earth feel like hell is our expectation that it should feel like heaven."
"The lower you fall the higher you'll fly." -Fight Club <3
"Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living."
"More and more it feels like I'm doing a really bad impersonation of myself."
“In the words of the late Francis Crick...You, your joys and your sorrows, your memories and your ambitions, your sense of personal identity and free will, are in fact no more than the behavior of a vast assembly of nerve cells and their associated molecules.”
"The cost of sanity in this society is a certain level of alienation."
Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool that I've ever encountered to help me make the good choices in life. Because almost everything, all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what's truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart. -Steve Jobs
Though my soul may set in darkness, it will rise in perfect light; I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night. -The Old Astronomer to his pupil by Sarah Williams <3
"Sometimes you have to make your own illusion, believe it and get lost in it instead of getting lost in the real world."
"Life is like photography...you develope from the negatives."
"You can't buy inspiration. You can't reason your way to an epiphany. Develop a formula. A roadmap to enlightenment." - Diary
If what people thought of you, what you thought of yourself and who you really are ever met, the three of you wouldn't recognize each other.".
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