Now, that's the scary thing
“May you find enough inner strength to determine your own worth by yourself, and not be dependent on another’s judgment of your accomplishments.”
—Sandra Sturtz Hauss (via sociolab)
August 2012
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July 2012
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O you who insult the world, who have been deceived by its deceit and cheated by its falsities, do you covet the world and then insult it?
Should you accuse it or should it accuse you? When did it bewilder or deceive you?
Verily the world is an abode of truth for he who is truthful to it, an abode of wellbeing for he who understands it, and an abode of riches for he who collects provision from it [for the next world).
” —Imam Ali ibn Abi Talib (a.s.)
“It’s a most distressing affliction to have a sentimental heart and a skeptical mind.”
—Naguib Mahfouz, Sugar Street (via itsfromabook)
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يا خادم الجسم كم تشقى بخدمته
أتطلب الربح فيما فيه خسران
أقبل على النفس واستكمل فضائلها
فأنت بالنفس لا بالجسم إنسان
” —أبي الفتح البستي (via azzayzafona)
“I looked at everyone and wondered where they came from, and who they missed, and what they were sorry for.”
—Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (via ofbirdsandmoons)
“She had just realized there were two things that prevent us from achieving our dreams: believing them to be impossible or seeing those dreams made possible by some sudden turn of the wheel of fortune, when you least expected it. For at that moment, all our fears suddenly surface: the fear of setting off along a road heading who knows where, the fear of a life full of new challenges, the fear of losing forever everything that is familiar.”
—Paulo Coelho (via kari-shma)
“You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage - pleasantly, smilingly, nonapologetically - to say ‘no’ to other things. And the way to do that is by having a bigger ‘yes’ burning inside. The enemy of the ‘best’ is often the ‘good.’”
—Stephen R Covey (via kari-shma)
“People are often unreasonable and self-centered. Forgive them anyway. If you are kind, people may accuse you of ulterior motives. Be kind anyway. If you are honest, people may cheat you. Be honest anyway. If you find happiness, people may be jealous. Be happy anyway. The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway. Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give your best anyway.”
—Kent M. Keith (via arabarabarab)
“You are not accidental. The world needs you. Without you, something will be missing in existence and nobody can replace it.”
—Osho (via internal-acceptance-movement)
