“Close Your Eyes And Imagine The Best Version Of You Possible. That’s Who You Really Are, Let Go

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

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

One where my heart is full and my soul understood.

Akka (Acre), Palestine. Pre 1948.

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

— Ann Patchett

—H.G. Wells, The Time Machine

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

— Jonathan Safran Foer 

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

“True love begins when nothing is looked for in return.”

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 

“How wonderful it is, to be silent with someone.”

— Kurt Tucholsky

“But all the magic I have known I’ve had to make myself.”

— Shel Silverstein