“I Enjoy Talking To You. Your Mind Appeals To Me.”

“Your body is the house you grew up in. How dare you try to burn it to the ground.”

— Sierra Demulder 

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

In Arabic when we see someone became more beautiful we say “tnawarti” which comes from “Noor” or “Light” in Arabic. It means that someone has made inner effort to come closer to Divine Presence and organically became blessed with Divine Light. It is visible in someones face...

“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 

Kız Kulesi-İstanbul by emrkrm

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

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

— Jonathan Safran Foer 

“I am practicing being kind instead of right.”

— Matthew Quick 

Palestinian woman picking grapes

“I feel myself shutting down, closing off, like I should tell people, ‘No, we don’t use this heart anymore. It’s too fragile.’”

— Courtney C. Stevens