خدا از تو محافظة كند وخت كه من نطنم

The war will end, 

and leaders will shake hands.

That old woman will keep waiting for her martyred son.

And those children will keep waiting for their hero father.

I don't know who sold our homeland,

but I saw who paid the price.

Mahmoud Darwish

Palestinian women near the village of Battir, Bethlehem.

“There’s nothing wrong with not understanding yourself.”

— Jonathan Safran Foer 

“Happiness is not the absence of problems, it’s the ability to deal with them.”

— Steve Maraboli

“Just because you don’t say much doesn’t mean people don’t notice you. It’s actually the quiet ones who often draw the most attention. There’s this constant whirlwind of motion and sound all around, and then there’s the quiet one, the eye of the storm.”

— Amy Efaw

“The fact is that five years ago I was, as near as possible, a different person to what I am tonight. I, as I am now, didn’t exist at all. Will the same thing happen in the next five years? I hope so.”

— Siegfried Sassoon 

لك مني كلّ شيء

لك ظل لك ضوء

خاتم العرس، و ما شئت

و حاكورة زيتون و تين

For you I have everything:

Both shade and light

And a wedding ring

And even an orchard of olive and fig trees.

- Mahmoud Darwish

—Beau Taplin, Moon Phases

من از خانوادہ ای ھستم که عشق پیشهٔ آنهاست

“I come from a family whose profession is love.”

- Nizar Qabbani

“I wish you’d find the exit out of my head.”

— Virginia Woolf