“When You’ve Suffered A Great Deal In Life, Each Additional Pain Is Both Unbearable And Trifling.”

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

— Kurt Tucholsky

When old age can't keep away from the love of Allah...❤️

“Weeping is not the same thing as crying, It takes your whole body to weep, and when it’s over, you feel like you don’t have any bones left to hold you up.”

— Sarah Ockler 

Palestinians inspect the damage of their destroyed homes following attacks from Israel. Beit Hanoun, Gaza, Palestine.   Photograph: Khalil Hamra

“If we are the same person before and after we love, that means we haven’t loved enough.”

— Elif Shafak 

“I’m not much, but I’m all I have.”

— Philip K. Dick 

“I’ve never been very good at leaving things behind. I tried, but I have always left fragments of myself there too, like seeds awaiting their chance to grow.”

— Joanne Harris

“It doesn’t matter if it’s a relationship, a lifestyle, or a job. If it doesn’t make you happy let it go.”

— William Chapman 

“I have a need of silence and of stars. Too much is said too loudly…”

— William Alexander Percy 

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

— Daul Kim, from I Like to Fork Myself