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“Start now. Start where you are. Start with fear. Start with pain. Start with doubt. Start with hands shaking. Start with voice trembling but start. Start and don’t stop. Start where you are, with what you have. Just… start.”

— Ijeoma Umebinyuo

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“I hope you find someone you can’t live without. l really do. And I hope you never have to know what it’s like to have to try and live without them.”

— Kiera Cass, The Selection

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“What I want is for the two of us to meet somewhere by chance one day, like, passing on the street, or getting on the same bus.”

— Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

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“That is my story, simply told. Please do not ask again. I have told you in order to issue a warning. I have been damaged. Damaged people are dangerous. They know they can survive.”

— Josephine Hart, Damage

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“I felt utterly alone, like I was the last person alive on Earth. I can’t describe that feeling of total loneliness. I just wanted to disappear into thin air and not think about anything.”

— Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

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“I still look back on those evenings we spent together as the happiest part of my life, and I wanted it to go on forever.”

— Henry MacAlpine

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“When Ibrahim, the child of Prophet Muhammad ﷺ died, he wept and said: “Verily the eyes shed tears and the heart grieves, and we are saddened over your departure oh Ibrahim. But we will not say except that which is pleasing to our Lord.” Patience is grieving with perspective.”

— Dr. Omar Suleiman

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do you still remember your creator when your mind is foggy from sleep deprivation?

when your siblings are testing your patience? when you’ve been stuck in traffic in the heat of summer for hours? when your friendships are falling apart? when your marriage is shaky? when your health is declining? when your loved ones are dying? when your future looks bleak? when the world is in chaos?

that is what this dunya was made for, that is your test.

“Do the people think that they will be left to say, “We believe” and they will not be tried?“ [29:2]

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Mama didn’t raise a quitter but she did raise an insecure perfectionist who never finishes anythi

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“There’s a brief moment when you first wake up where you have no memories, a blissful blank slate, a happy emptiness, but it doesn’t last long and you remember exactly where you are and what you are trying to forget.”

— Carrie Bradshaw, The Carrie Diaries (via hplyrikz)

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“All you can do in life is to be who you are. Some people will love you for you. Most will love you for what you can do for them, and some won’t like you at all.”

— Rita Mae Brown