MY SANCTUARY

Salam and hi! I'm Amani. This is the place where I try to seek balance between words and images.

[books-quoted]

I knew it was beautiful, but knowing something is beautiful and caring about it are are two very different things

Let it Snow: three holiday romances (via books-quoted)

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

Not much news. Rather cross–Would like a letter. Would like a garden. Would like Vita. Would like 15 puppies, 3 doves and a little conversation.

Virginia Woolf, from a letter to Vita Sackville-West c. June 1926 (via days-of-reading)

[northbrookpl]

I always wrote. I wrote from when I was 12. That was therapeutic for me in those days. I wrote things to get them out of feeling them, and onto paper. So writing in a way saved me, kept me company. I did the traditional thing with falling in love with words, reading books and underlining lines I liked and words I didn’t know.

Carrie Fisher (via northbrookpl)

[bookmania]

I do not know everything; still many things I understand.

Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time

(via bookmania)

[just-shower-thoughts]

It’s not a Sunday unless you completely waste it and feel really sad around 8PM

[theintrovertnation]

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

If I want the impossible, I want it in its entirety. Entirely alone, dearest, I wanted us to be entirely alone on this earth, entirely alone under the sky…

Franz Kafka, from Letters To Felice  (via painfulbliss)

[merrygreenbroom]

Trying to be happy by accumulating possessions is like trying to satisfy hunger by taping sandwiches all over your body.

George Carlin  (via afghanmami)

[bintmukhtar-deactivated20170103]

Arrow in the heart

Imam Shafi’ee رحمه الله once said:

“There is an ayah in the Qur’an that is like an arrow in the heart of every oppressor and at the same time a source of comfort for the heart of the oppressed.” People asked: “What is it?” He replied:

وَمَا كَانَ رَبُّكَ نَسِيًّا

“And never is your Lord forgetful”

[سورة مريم : 64]

[writerswritecompany]

[the-final-sentence]

But she had disappeared–and was never found.

Lawrence Hill, from The Illegal (via the-final-sentence)

[ramiroo19-deactivated20200102]

O Human! You are only days. Every time a day goes, a piece of you goes.

Hasan al-Basri | az-Zuhd, (p. 225)

[aseaofquotes]

Lucy Keating, Dreamology

[thequotejournals]

Nothing haunts us like the things we don’t say.

Mitch Albom, Have a Little Faith: a True Story. (via wnq-writers)

[amargedom]

sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.

Dr. Seuss (via amargedom)

[simply-quotes-deactivated202002]

Some days I wake up and think, how did I get here? It’s like one day, you just realize you’re not young anymore, and you already made your choices, and now it’s too late to change anything.

Kristin Harmel, The Sweetness of Forgetting (via simply-quotes)

[harknesswife]