N.Queen

I left my home in California to visit Egypt and due to an unusual and unexpected chain of events ended up attending the American University in Cairo for the following four years. I have no idea what I'm doing.

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A Travel Blog You Wanna See!

Check out https://www.instagram.com/norahqueen25/ to see some of the coolest places in the world! 

[thelovejournals]

Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.

Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet (via thelovejournals)

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[theliteraryjournals]

Writing isn’t about making money, getting famous, getting dates, getting laid, or making friends. In the end, it’s about enriching the lives of those who will read your work, and enriching your own life, as well. It’s about getting up, getting well, and getting over. Getting happy, okay? Getting happy.

Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft (via theliteraryjournals)

[theliteraryjournals]

The scariest moment is always just before you start.

Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft (via theliteraryjournals)

[theliteraryjournals]

If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.

Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft (via theliteraryjournals)

[theliteraryjournals]

Books are a uniquely portable magic.

Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft (via theliteraryjournals)

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The way you react has been repeated thousands of times, and it has become a routine for you. You are conditioned to be a certain way. And that is the challenge: to change your normal reactions, to change your routine, to take a risk and make different choices.

Don Miguel Angel Ruiz #ThingsItTakesAWhileToUnderstand

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[theglasschild]

I never said it was easy to find your place in this world, but I’m coming to the conclusion that if you seek to please others, you will forever be changing because you will never be yourself, only fragments of someone you could be. You need to belong to yourself, and let others belong to themselves too. You need to be free and detached from things and your surroundings. You need to build your home in your own simple existence, not in friends, lovers, your career or material belongings, because these are things you will lose one day. That’s the natural order of this world. This is called the practice of detachment.

Charlotte Eriksson, Empty Roads & Broken Bottles; in search for The Great Perhaps (via theglasschild)

[theglasschild]

You’ll be old and you never lived, and you kind of feel silly to lie down and die and to never have lived, to have been a job chaser and never have lived.

Gertrude Stein (via theglasschild)

[theglasschild]

it took time to realize that i have to stop giving myself away as if i didn’t belong to myself.

K.Y. Robinson, The Chaos of Longing (via theglasschild)

[theabundanceofintention]

Dylan Garity - “Friend Zone”

as if the only reason to be a good friend or a decent fucking human is if you get something in exchange. The problem is, when I started  thinking of myself as a savior, I ended up thinking of myself  as a savior with a salary You put in your hours as a nice guy and sex is just a living wage but sex is not a transaction. Sex is not a handshake to seal some deal. That girl did not owe me anything.

This is for my friends who think that just because you let someone lay on your shoulder that you are entitled to have them lay under you.

[tea-rabbits]

You knew me pretty well but I never let you see my dark side so it’s perfectly appropriate that I’m careening down the highway screaming at the top of my lungs, praying for the courage to do something reckless.

Chris Pureka - Cynical (via tea-rabbits)