Striving Soul

Striving Muslimah. "Never have I dealt with anything more difficult than my own soul."

[extreme-cashmere]

“Good deeds will repel evil deeds. That is a remembrance for those who remember.” [11:114]

[quorankareem]

[aidashakur]

"I pray my daughter is stronger than me. I pray she doesn’t accept things i’ve accepted. i pray she knows when to fight for something/someone and when to walk away. I pray she never feels abandoned, unloved, and unappreciated. I pray she knows her worth."

[missinyouiskillingme]

You can try your hardest. You can do everything and say everything, but sometimes people just aren’t worth trying over anymore; they aren’t worth worrying about. It’s important to know when to let go of someone who only brings you down.

[missinyouiskillingme]

It’s important to know when to let go of someone who only brings you down.

[thepersonalquotes]

““You cannot change what you refuse to confront.” - Unknown”

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[serratedpens]

Eden Robinson, “Writing Prompts for the Broken-hearted”

[heavensghost]

from one of my unfinished poems

[noorshirazie]

“When you feed an addiction, you also feed its appetite for more.”

— Noor Shirazie, Into the Wildfire: Battle Scars

[ladyrue]

“My wish is to stay always like this, living quietly in a corner of nature.”

- Claude Monet

[yms1]

show me your outfit before you go out is my love language

[noorshirazie]

a half-remembered dream comes back to life the minute i hear your voice. it transports me to an easier era, when we would laugh like carefree children, lost in playful imagination. while it stings to return to the sweetness of youth, i swell with joy to know that we happened at all. for a brief moment, we were real.

[noorshirazie]

a man sat in front of a blank canvas and was asked to paint something breathtaking. he replied, “i do not know of anything that fits this description.”

i told him, “art consists of nothing more than its creator weeping into something empty and transforming it into the beauty you see.”

he replied, “what does that make us?”

[noorshirazie]

the torturous distance between you and i was nothing compared to the distance i conquered to be reunited with myself.

[genuinelyshallow]

Shireen Abu Aqel was NOT caught in a cross fire.

She was snipped in the HEAD

While wearing a “press” vest and helmet.

On a bright sunny day.

[muhtesemz]

‏تمادينا بالتفكير ونسينا بأن الأقدار مكتوبة

We went too far in thinking and forgot that destinies are written.

- Mahmoud Darwish

[riversofnoor]

Ibn al-Jawzi رحمه الله said:

“Perhaps losing what you wanted will cause you to turn to Allah, and getting it will distract you from Him...”

{Sayd al-Khatir, pp.59-60.}

[sincerethoughtsblog]

jane austen is timeless because the line “i’m 27 years old, i’ve no money and no prospects. i’m already a burden to my parents and i’m frightened” is as relevant today as when she published pride and prejudice in 1813 😭