If you're a giver & you have a big heart, to be truly happy in life, you must learn when to let go. Naturally, you're going to care when you shouldn't, you're going to stay longer than you should, & you're going to give when you have nothing. Know when to stop and let things be.
~Sylvester Mcnutt
"A real sign of progress is when we no longer punish ourselves for our imperfections".
~Yung Pueblo, Inward
— Charles Simic, from “Old Man”, “Master of Disguises: Poems”
I am a mosaic of everyone I have ever known and loved and touched and I find fragments of them in my playlists and how I make my tea. we may not know each other any more but we will stay connected like this. I hope a fragment of me is with you too.
“And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love: these are what we stay alive for.” ― Tom Schulman, Dead Poets Society
“As June runs into warm July I think of little else but you.”
— Wendy Cope, excerpt of “From June to December” (A Summer Villanelle)
أتبكون علي شيئاً مضي؟
اقسمُ لكمّ لو كآن خير لبقي
And do you cry over that which has passed?
I swear to you, if there was any good in it, it would've stayed.
“I saw that you were perfect, and so I loved you. Then I saw that you were not perfect and I loved you even more.”
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this world can be so kind. butterflies will land and stick in your hair, the smell of rain will float through your mind in the middle of the night, the water we swim in is cold and clear, the fruits we eat so sweet. this world can be so, so kind.
hope your days get softer from here on out. hope the hurt lessens and the dark turns to light. you deserve gentleness and good love. I hope it finds you soon.
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الفرق ما بيننا
أنسى السما .
My lover asks me: "What is the difference between me and the sky?" The difference, my love, is that when you laugh, I forget about the sky.
—Nizar Qabbani
The Prophet (ﷺ) said:
“I guarantee a house in Paradise for one who gives up arguing, even if he is right; and a house in the middle of Paradise for one who abandons lying even when joking; and a house in the highest part of Paradise for one who makes his character excellent.”
[Abu Dawud]
schools begun, lets celebrate the knowledge that comes with it.
{dark academia women}
