― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
“I think it’s very healthy to spend time alone. You need to know how to be alone and not be defined by another person.”— Oscar Wilde
“It is easy to love people in memory; the hard thing is to love them when they are there in front of you.”— John Updike, My Father’s Tears and Other Stories
“Two souls don’t find each other by simple accident.”— Jorge Luis Borges
“Let’s raise children who won’t have to recover from their childhoods.”— Pam Leo
“I like flaws and feel more comfortable around people who have them. I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions.”— Augusten Burroughs, Magical Thinking
“And you must not, ever, give anyone else the responsibility for your life.”
Mary Oliver
The Company of Wolves (1984) | dir. Neil Jordan
“You don’t know how little you matter until you’re all alone.”— Frank Ocean
Abū Yazīd Al-Basdhāmi رحمه الله said:
“It is not surprising that I love You while I am a poor servant, but it is surprising that You love me while You are The Ever Capable King!”
[Siyar A'lam al-Nubala: 13/86]
«There is no one who is afflicted with distress or grief and says: “O Allah, I am Your slave, son of Your slave, son of Your female slave; my forehead is in Your hand, Your command over me passes and Your decree over me is just. I ask You by every name belonging to You with which You have named Yourself—whether You revealed in Your Book, taught to any of Your creation, or have preserved in the knowledge of the Unseen with You—that You make the Quran the spring of my heart, the light of my breast, a departure for my sorrow, and a release from my anxiety, ” but Allah will take away his distress and grief and replace it with joy.»
— Prophet Muhammad.
Reported by Ahmad (3712)
From Waiting for This Story to End Before I Begin Another by Jan Heller Levi (via hush-syrup)