Atabeysblog - Ata Bey

“It doesn’t matter if it’s a relationship, a lifestyle, or a job. If it doesn’t make you happy let it go.”

— William Chapman 

“Having a soft heart in a cruel world is courage, not weakness.”

— Katherine Henson 

“Whatever happens to you belongs to you. Make it yours. Feed it to yourself even if it feels impossible to swallow. Let it nurture you, because it will.”

— Cheryl Strayed 

“I’ve never been very good at leaving things behind. I tried, but I have always left fragments of myself there too, like seeds awaiting their chance to grow.”

— Joanne Harris

I am homesick for a place I am not sure even exists.

One where my heart is full and my soul understood.

“I’m not much, but I’m all I have.”

— Philip K. Dick 

خدا از تو محافظة كند وخت كه من نطنم

— Khuda az tu muhafezat kunad, wakhte ke ma natanam

‘’I ask God to protect you, whenever I can’t.’’

أعود ..

لأنّها كفني . أعود

لأنّها بدني

أعود لأنها وطني

I return..

Because she is my shroud. I return

Because she is my body.

I return because she is my nation.

- Mahmoud Darwish

“But I tried, didn’t I? Goddamnit, at least I did that.”

— Ken Kesey 

“Just because things hadn’t gone the way I had planned didn’t necessarily mean they had gone wrong.”

— Ann Patchett