“To Allah Do We Turn Our Hopes.” — Quran (9:59)

“Hurt people hurt people. That’s how pain patterns gets passed on, generation after generation after generation. Break the chain today. Meet anger with sympathy, contempt with compassion, cruelty with kindness. Greet grimaces with smiles. Forgive and forget about finding fault. Love is the weapon of the future.”

— Yehuda Berg 

“You’re so calm and quiet, you never say. But there are things inside you. I see them sometimes, hiding in your eyes.”

— Tracy Chevalier, Girl with a Pearl Earring (via perfectquote)

“Once you lose someone it is never exactly the same person who comes back.”

— Sharon Olds 

“Don’t lose yourself trying to be everything to everyone.”

— Tony Gaskins 

“There is nothing wrong with staying with someone and trying to make it work. Just be sure you know the difference between determination and desperation.”

— Charles Orlando 

چشم نمیتوند عشق را پنهان کند

— Cheshm nametana ishq-ra penhaan kunad

‘’The eye does not know how to hide love.’’

"We demand closure as though our lives were put together as neatly as novels, but the fact of the matter is they're not. In real life, relationships are messy and poorly written, ending too early or too late, and sometimes in the middle of a sentence."

—Beau Taplin, Neatly As Novels

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

One where my heart is full and my soul understood.

“Scar tissue has no character. It’s not like skin. It doesn’t show age or illness or pallor or tan. It has no pores, no hair, no wrinkles. It’s like a slip cover. It shields and disguises what’s beneath. That’s why we grow it; we have something to hide.”

— Susanna Kaysen 

إنني أسألُ مليون سؤال

وبعينيك أرى صمتَ الحجر

I ask a million questions

But see in your eyes only the silence of stones.

- Mahmoud Darwish