Atabeysblog - Ata Bey

“It’s not what people do to you, but what they mean, that hurts.”

— E.M. Forster 

“Mental will is a muscle that needs exercise, just like the muscles of the body.”

— Lynn Jennings 

“When words come from the heart of anyone, they find a place in the heart of another.”

— Ali ibn Abi Talib (Radhiallahu Anhu)

This photograph was taken during the first Intifada (1987-1993), it shows a Palestinian boy shot in the heart by Israeli occupation forces. Most of the Palestinians killed during the Intifada were either shot in the heart or the head. via Younes Arar.

Edit: This is a still from ‘Kingdom of Ants’, still a very accurate depiction of reality.

“I don’t know how to be loved. I don’t know how to love.”

— Daul Kim, from I Like to Fork Myself

“It happens to everyone as they grow up. You find out who you are and what you want, and then you realize that people you’ve known forever don’t see things the way you do. So you keep the wonderful memories, but find yourself moving on.”

— Nicholas Sparks 

Adonis, Selected Poems; “Beginnings of the Body, Ends of the Sea” (tr. Khaled Mattawa)

“I wondered which was sadder, leaving someone to cry after you were gone, or not having anyone who would miss you in the first place.”

— William Ritter

“People will kill you over time, and how they’ll kill you is with tiny, harmless phrases, like ‘be realistic.’”

— Dylan Moran 

“I exist in two places, here, and where you are.”

— Margaret Atwood