Of Things That Matter

Muslim | Female | INFP 

[books-n-quotes]

“I did not like to be touched, but it was a strange dislike. I did not like to be touched because I craved it too much. I wanted to be held very tight so I would not break.”

— Marya Hornbacher, Wasted (via books-n-quotes)

[islamic-art-and-quotes]

Source: halahalahmed, via IslamicArtDB

[lightheartedsuggestion]

Get better at saying no to things you don’t want to do. You don’t have an obligation to please anyone. It’s okay to put yourself first sometimes.

[hirxeth]

Oslo, 31. August (2011) dir. Joachim Trier

[nevver]

Les nocturne, Loïc Le Quéré

[aseaofquotes]

Jenny Han, P.S. I Still Love You

[islamicrays]

““Repel the thought, for if you don’t, it becomes an idea. So repel the idea; for if you don’t it will become a desire. So fight against that (desire), for if you don’t, it will become a determination and a passion. And if you don’t repel that, it will become an action. And if you don’t replace it with its opposite, it will become a constant habit. So at that point, it will be difficult for you to change it.””

— Ibn Al Qayyim

[books-n-quotes]

“Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn’t it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses, you build up a whole suit of armor, so that nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life…You give them a piece of you. They didn’t ask for it. They did something dumb one day, like kiss you or smile at you, and then your life isn’t your own anymore. Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness, so simple a phrase like ‘maybe we should be just friends’ turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart. It hurts. Not just in the imagination. Not just in the mind. It’s a soul-hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain. I hate love.”

— Neil Gaiman, The Sandman (via books-n-quotes)

[bungaditelinga-blog]

In a weird way, yes.

[quotemadness]

“Don’t forget - no one else sees the world the way you do, so no one else can tell the stories that you have to tell.”

— Charles de Lint

[purplebuddhaproject]

“Always remember people who have helped you along the way, and don’t forget to lift someone up.”

— Roy T. Bennett, (via purplebuddhaquotes)

[purplebuddhaproject]

“The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.”

— Confucius, (via purplebuddhaquotes)

[books-n-quotes]

“Things we lose have a way of coming back to us in the end, if not always in the way we expect.”

— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (via books-n-quotes)

[books-n-quotes]

“Sometimes the worst thing that happens to you, the thing you think you can’t survive…it’s the thing that makes you better than you used to be.”

— Jennifer Weiner, Fly Away Home (via books-n-quotes)

[sixpenceee]

The Emperor’s Corridor in the Czech Republic

[purplebuddhaproject]

“I’m a romantic, and we romantics are more sensitive to the way people feel. We love more, and we hurt more. When we’re hurt, we hurt for a long time.”

— Freddy Fender  (via purplebuddhaquotes)

[amomentofnature]

[purplebuddhaproject]

“I tell myself I am searching for something. But more and more, it feels like I am wandering, waiting for something to happen to me, something that will change everything, something that my whole life has been leading up to.”

— Khaled Hosseini (via purplebuddhaquotes)