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“It is up to you to sing yourself lullabies when voices of solace are too distant to be heard. Count the stars as they reflect a brilliance you build alone.”

— Noor Shirazie, Into the Wildfire: Battle Scars

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Sometimes my day is crammed full of people and talk and yet I have the feeling of living in utter peace and quiet. And the tree outside my window, in the evenings, is a greater experience than all those people put together.

Etty Hillesum, from a diary entry featured in An Interrupted Life: the Diaries, 1941-1943 and Letters from Westerbork (translated from the Dutch by Arnold J. Pomerans)

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اشرب قهوتك، واعتنق الصمت، ولا تأخذ الناس على محمل الجد.. لا تأخذ الحياة على عاتقك، ولا تبالغ في عاطفتك، ولا تُرضي أحدًا رغمًا عنك.

Drink your coffee, embrace the silence, do not take people seriously, do not take life upon yourself, do not exaggerate your emotions, and do not please anyone against your will.

- Mahmoud Darwish

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*returning to whence I came* wheeeeeeee :)

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expecting me to make sense all the time is a hate crime

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“The doves are cooing in the pine tree and spring will come — will come — will come. You will come home, too — and I can’t wait…”

— Anne Sexton, A Self-Portrait in Letters

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Don't allow others to consume you. If they don't call, go to sleep. If they don't message you, put away your phone & have a good day. If they are distant and refuse to tell you what's wrong, go home and do something fun. You live for yourself first. They are secondary.

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James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room

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needed this :’)

Stop wasting your time with individuals who aren’t really all about you. Stop trying to force connections that aren’t all there, or telling yourself that maybe the reason love isn’t happening for you is because your expectations are too high. It’s not unrealistic to desire a partner that is attentive to your needs and wants, and who puts in the effort to not only get to know you, but keep you happy and feeling secure. Don’t compromise the things you value in a relationship for people who keep missing the mark. Your time could be much better spent. Some day someone is going to walk into your life and make you realize just why you should never settle, and they will be so bold and clear with their love that you’ll never have to think twice.

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fuck israel

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someone please sell me your harry tickets before i start crying

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HELLO IS ANYONE SELLING 2 PIT TICKETS FOR HARRY'S DC SHOW ON SEPT. 18? I AM WILLING TO PAY EXTRA!!!!!

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“I am not concerned with when or where I die; All I care about is for the revolutionaries and their chants to continue filling the earth until there is no more injustice, built on the bodies of the poor and the helpless.“  - Taftanaz, Idlib, Syria 

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Inside a fashionable coffee house, Tehran, 2001. 

Photo by Abbas

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crazy how much there is

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You’re the only home you’ll ever know. Decorate yourself with love and compassion, furnish yourself with inner learning, declutter yourself with reflection, and don’t let the dust of routine pile up on your soul.