by the stars

spirituality and positivity

[flowerais-deactivated20211031]

you have to learn to interrupt automatic negative thoughts. it won’t feel natural, but it’s important to be deliberate in changing bad thoughts into compassionate, self-healing ones in order to feel better and happier in the long term.

[stuckinapril]

I promise you things will get so much better when you start processing people’s behavior as information rather than a verdict on your self-worth. If someone doesn’t text back, suddenly pulls away, whatever it may be, the solution isn’t to put on a tap dance for them and try to regain their approval. It’s not to crash out on them and try to force them to react a certain way. It’s just to take a step back, take a deep breath, and assess what this tells you. What’s this saying about them? What’s this saying about you??

[enbaluka-tokyo-drift]

[sud13]

ḥasbunā l-lahu waniʿ'ma l-wakīl “Sufficient for us is Allah, and [He is] the best Disposer of affairs.” Quran (3,173) آل عمران - الآية 173

[writtenduas]

وعن ابن عباس رضي الله عنه قال‏: ‏ قال رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم ‏: ‏ “من لزم الاستغفار ، جعل الله له من كل ضيق مخرجاً ومن كل هم فرجاً، ورزقه من حيث لا يحتسب‏"‏ رواه أبو داود‏‏.‏

Ibn 'Abbas (May Allah be pleased with them) said: The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said, "If anyone constantly seeks pardon (from Allah), Allah will appoint for him a way out of every distress and a relief from every anxiety, and will provide sustenance for him from where he expects not." [Abu Dawud].

Riyad as-Salihin 1873

[sorrrowfull]

[smsomah]

Cormorant fishing in Yangshuo near Guilin, Guangxi, China. Christian Vaisse

Cormorant fishing is an old tradition in which fishermen use trained cormorants to catch fish.

[himekokosu]

Bleeding Heart

[oncce-againn]

If you feel calmer without them, that’s the answer.

[charitydingle]

Kedi 2016, dir. Ceyda Torun

[probablyasocialecologist]

When it comes to Palestine, the sacred laws of journalism are bendable. Optional even. Passive voice is king. Omitting facts is standard. Fabrication is permissible. Journalists become stenographers, and reporters become state secretaries, as they parrot police and military narratives. They tamper with evidence. They muddle, mislead, and misconstrue, manufacturing consent for ethnic cleansing and creating confusion around murders that are clear as day. The courageous industry that boasts of speaking “truth to power” is but a bullhorn for the powerful. We have seen this time and time again. It is almost satirical: anchors reject the data before their eyes to recite lies, and newspapers read like caricatures of themselves. When a 2014 Israeli airstrike on a cafe in Gaza blew eight Palestinians to shreds, the headline from the New York Times was “Missile at Beachside Gaza Cafe Finds Patrons Poised for World Cup.” Whose missile? Whose gunfire? Who is the sniper?

Mohammed el-Kurd, Perfect Victims and the Politics of Appeal

[vasira96]

idk who needs to hear this, but your partner should be making your life better and easier than it is on your own. if your partner is making your life harder, they're constantly stressing you out, if they're not showing up for you? babe you gotta leave, life is so short and we only get one, so don't spend it with someone who makes you feel bad about your life, you deserve so much better than that

[pmamtraveller]

A collection of Moroccan doors

[because--palestine]

Ok, so, I used to be a huge fan of Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis -and so obviously I was fascinated by her persona and what she represented as a feminist figure-. I liked the movie so much that I defended it tooth and nail, about fifteen years ago, during arguments on Facebook with friends and family members because of the controversy around the depiction of god in it; and i ended up blocking and getting blocked by those I disagreed with.

I was however deeply disgusted when, during an interview on Democracy Now! in 2024, she started spewing Zionist propaganda against the resistance calling Hamas ISIS etc. How could such a smart person be so brainwashed and obtuse when it comes to the fight of a people for their basic human rights?

Long story short, she was a disappointment. I wonder if she changed her perception of the Palestinian struggle before she died. What a pity if she didn't.

[funkyfeefee]

Bro wtf I had to check if this was real

[tamamita]

She was a labour/"leftist" zionist btw

[datura-inoxia]

I profoundly dislike this woman, but I think it is disingenuous to present a paraphrase as a quote.

The closest I found to her actually saying that is:

"When peace comes we will perhaps in time be able to forgive the Arabs for killing our sons, but it will be harder for us to forgive them for having forced us to kill their sons. Peace will come when the Arabs will love their children more than they hate us."

Golda Meir - A land of Our Own, an oral autobiography (1973)

[tamamita]

Thanks for the full quote, it actually makes her far worse.

[primulaceas]

John Steinbeck, East of Eden

[lassi]

no kissing emoticon before marriage