Who?

So Much World, So Little Time 21, Ethiopia Born, Boston Grown Harvard

[thelovejournals]

Often, when we have a crush, when we lust for a person, we see only a small percentage of who they really are. The rest we make up for ourselves. Rather than listen, or learn, we smother them in who we imagine them to be, what we desire for ourselves, we create little fantasies of people and let them grow in our hearts. And this is where the relationship fails. In time, the fiction we scribble onto a person falls away, the lies we tell ourselves unravel and soon the person standing in front of you is almost unrecognizable, you are now complete strangers in your own love. And what a terrible shame it is. My advice: pay attention to the small details of people, you will learn that the universe is far more spectacular an author than we could ever hope to be.“

Beau Taplin, The Fiction of People (via thelovejournals)

[eyfis]

This is my absolute favorite picture of mohamed ali. Unapologetically black and muslim.

Alhamduliah he passed on jummah. May allah grant him the highest of paradise

[perrfectly]

[wnq-writers]

Everyone says love hurts, but that is not true. Loneliness hurts. Rejection hurts. Losing someone hurts. Envy hurts. Everyone gets these things confused with love, but in reality love is the only thing in this world that covers up all pain and makes someone feel wonderful again. Love is the only thing in this world that does not hurt.

xaddicte-donex (via wnq-writers)

[siilentthoughts]

May we meet again in ten years in another life, when things are right, when our hearts aren’t broken, when our thoughts aren’t a mess, when the ghosts of us aren’t haunting us, when we won’t have to turn our backs on each other and lead another road, when it’s our right time to fix the broken to love again. By then it won’t be the wrong time or a forbidden love, it will be another chance to make things right when we couldn’t before.

R.K (via siilentthoughts)

[wordsnquotes]

The body shuts down when it has too much to bear; goes its own way quietly inside, waiting for a better time, leaving you numb and half alive.

Jeanette Winterson, The Passion (via wordsnquotes)

I feel this

(via makeitcount-21)

[psych2go]

Travel isn’t always pretty. It isn’t always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your heart. But that’s okay. The journey changes you; it should change you. It leaves marks on your memory, on your consciousness, on your heart, and on your body. You take something with you. Hopefully, you leave something good behind.

Anthony Bourdain (via psych-facts)

[zicoisbae]

[dumdiduh]

[bitterangst]

[igadrobisz]

[saudi-aphrodite]

[samuelernesto]

Afeni Shakur & baby Tupac after Panther 21 trial. Photography by Barbara Caress.

[goodreadss]

Loneliness does not come from having no people around you, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to you.

Carl Jung (via goodreadss)

[wordsnquotes]

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, And the Mountains Echoed  (via wordsnquotes)

[amargedom]

“I don’t think people understand how stressful it is to explain what’s going on in your head when you don’t even understand it yourself.”

Sara Keirsten Quin (via amargedom)

[0rgasmgirl]