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"Among the believers are men who have proven true to what they pledged to Allah. Some of them have fulfilled their pledge with their lives, others are waiting their turn. They have never changed their commitment in the least."

— Qur'an, 33:23

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“Before you know kindness as the deepest thing inside,

you must know sorrow as the other deepest thing.

You must wake up with sorrow.

You must speak to it till your voice

catches the thread of all sorrows

and you see the size of the cloth.

Then it is only kindness that makes sense anymore,

only kindness that ties your shoes

and sends you out into the day to gaze at bread,

only kindness that raises its head

from the crowd of the world to say

It is I you have been looking for,

and then goes with you everywhere

like a shadow or a friend.”

— Kindness, Naomi Shihab Nye (1952)

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Katherine Mansfield, from The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield: Volume 5

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The things you think about determine the quality of your mind. Your soul takes on the color of your thoughts.

Marcus Aurelius, Meditations [written between 170 and 180 AD.]

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Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own [originally published 1929]

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“my nurturing Lord, put my heart at rest and make easy for me my task.”

— Qur'ān, 20:25

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The longer I live, the more deeply I learn that love — whether we call it friendship or family or romance — is the work of mirroring and magnifying each other’s light. Gentle work. Steadfast work. Life-saving work in those moments when life and shame and sorrow occlude our own light from our view, but there is still a clear-eyed loving person to beam it back. In our best moments, we are that person for another.

-James Baldwin