“Someone can be madly in love with you and still not be ready. They can love you in a way you have never been loved and still not join you on the bridge. And whatever their reasons you must leave. Because you never ever have to inspire anyone to meet you on the bridge. You never ever have to convince someone to do the work to be ready. There is more extraordinary love, more love that you have never seen, out here in this wide and wild universe. And there is the love that will be ready.”

— Nayyirah Waheed

"If nothing else, we have learned from each other. From the ashes we have grown."

Mahmoud Darwish, Counterpoint (for Edward W. Said) in Almond Blossoms and Beyond (tr. Mohammad Shaheen)

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“I do not miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in small things, even as greater things crumbled. I could not control the world I was in, could not walk away from things or people or moments that hurt, but I took joy in the things that made me happy.” - Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

“If you pour a handful of salt into a cup of water, the water becomes undrinkable. But if you pour the salt into a river, people can continue to draw the water to cook, wash, and drink. The river is immense, and it has the capacity to receive, embrace, and transform. When our hearts are small, our understanding and compassion are limited, and we suffer. We can’t accept or tolerate others and their shortcomings, and we demand that they change. But when our hearts expand, these same things don’t make us suffer anymore. We have a lot of understanding and compassion and can embrace others. We accept others as they are, and then they have a chance to transform.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

Relationships don’t last because of the good times, they last because the hard times were handled with love and care.

Reflect deeply.

-Qasim Rafique

رَّبُّكُمْ أَعْلَمُ بِمَا فِي نُفُوسِكُمْ

  Your Lord is best aware of what is in your hearts.

— Surah Al-Isra [17:25]

“Don’t wait too long. Life takes unexpected turns, and we don’t always have the time we think we have.”

— Sylvain Reynard

““It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool’s paradise.” - Fyodor Dostoyevsky ”

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خلا منكِ طرفي و امتلا منكِ خاطري

كأنكِ من عيني نُقِلْتِ الى قَلبي.

You departed from my sight and entered my thoughts, traveled from my eyes to my heart. -Al-Abbas Ibn e Al-Ahnaf