“Sometimes, Home Has A Heartbeat.”

“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

❝Beware of the supplication of the oppressed, for indeed there is no barrier between it and Allah.❞ > Sahih Bukhari, Vol:3, Book:43, Hadith:628

When you fall in love with someone, you are falling in love with aspects of God that is visible through them.

What then makes the person so unique ?

It is their willingness to allow the higher lights to channel through their specific shape & form. This is their beauty.

"I disappeared into books when I was very young, disappeared into them like someone running into the woods."

—Rebecca Solnit

“I wasn’t actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

A Palestinian coin older than Israel

A Palestinian coin older than Israel

“Hurt people hurt people. That’s how pain patterns gets passed on, generation after generation after generation. Break the chain today. Meet anger with sympathy, contempt with compassion, cruelty with kindness. Greet grimaces with smiles. Forgive and forget about finding fault. Love is the weapon of the future.”

— Yehuda Berg 

“Having a soft heart in a cruel world is courage, not weakness.”

— Katherine Henson 

“Close your eyes and imagine the best version of you possible. That’s who you really are, let go of any part of you that doesn’t believe it.”

— C. Assaad 

“Do you love him? I don’t know. I believe he is my fate.”

— Anne Carson, excerpt of “TV Men: Akhmatova (Treatment for a Script); AKHMATOVA’S MARRIAGE (1910) HAS LITTLE EFFECT ON HER”, in Men in the Off Hours