“May you know the softness that comes from being well-loved.”
— India Ame’ye, Author
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@optimisticmuse
“May you know the softness that comes from being well-loved.”
— India Ame’ye, Author
It’s just as important to pray that you don’t hurt anyone as it is to pray that you don’t get hurt.
“Reading isn’t important because it helps to get you a job. It’s important because it gives you room to exist beyond the reality you’re given. It is how humans merge. How minds connect. Dreams. Empathy. Understanding. Escape.”
— Matt Haig, Notes on a Nervous Planet | @wnq-psychology
not sure if this will make sense to anyone besides me but: the antidote to negativity is not positivity, its warmth
positivity tells a sad person that there is no reason to be sad. warmth asks the sad person if they want to go get some ice cream
“Young one, do not forget prayer. Each time in your prayer, if it be sincere, a new emotion will make itself fleetingly glimpsed, and in it a new thought with which you were previously unfamiliar and which will give you courage again; and you will realize that prayer is an education.”
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
God will answer your prayers. And when he does, he will answer them in ways you could never even imagine. He will blow you away with the perfection of his plans and will leave you utterly speechless in the way He allows things to fall perfectly into place.
God will answer your prayers.
Just be patient.
i love seeing best friends goofing around in public. i love seeing couples laughing together. i love seeing little kids walking hand in hand with their parents. i love seeing dogs running happily back to their owners. i love seeing closeness and positive relationships, and knowing all that love is out there
Are You Following the Crowd?
When ‘Umar bin al-Khattab (رضي الله عنه) was walking in the market, he passed by a man who was supplicating,
اللهم اجعلني من القليل اللهم اجعلني من القليل
“O Allah, make me from the few! O Allah make me from the few!”
So ‘Umar said to him, “Where did you get this du`a’ (supplication) from?” And the man said,
“Allah in His Book says:
وَقَليلٌ مِن عِبادِيَ الشَّكورُ
‘And few of My servants are grateful.’ [Saba’:13]”
So ‘Umar wept and admonished himself, “The people are more knowledgeable than you, O Umar! O Allah make us from Your ‘few’ servants.”
Sometimes when you advise someone to leave a sin, they respond with “But everybody does it, it’s not just me!” But if you look for the words “most people” in the Qur’an, you will find that most people -
ولكن اكثرهم لا يعلمون “And however most people do not know” [7:187];
ولكن أكثرهم لا يشكرون - “and most people do not show gratitude” [2:243]; and
و لكن اكثر الناس لا يؤمنون “And most people do not believe” [11: 17].
And if you look for “most of them”, you will find:
وَأَنَّ أَكثَرَكُم فاسِقونَ - “defiantly disobedient” [5 :59];
و لكن أكثرهم يجهلون - “ ignorant” [6:111]; and
بل أكثرهم لا يعلمون الحق فهم معرضون - “turning away” [21:24].
So be of the “few”, whom Allah says about them:
وَقَليلٌ مِن عِبادِيَ الشَّكورُ - “And *few* of My servants are grateful.” [Saba’:13]; and
وَما آمَنَ مَعَهُ إِلّا قَليلٌ - “But none had believed with him, except a *few*.” [11:40]
في جنات النعيم ثلة من الاولين و قليل من الآخرين - “In the Gardens of Bliss: many from the past and a *few* from later generations.” (Al-Waqi'ah:12-14)
Ibn al-Qayyim (رحمه الله) said, “Go on the path of truth and do not feel lonely because there are few who take that path, and beware of the path of falsehood and do not be deceived by the vastness of the perishers.”
[Kitab al-Zuhd - Ahmad bin Hanbal; and Musannaf of Ibn Abi Shaybah ]
I wish my mother could live her life all over again. But instead of it being filled with all of the hurt and sadness she has felt, I wish she could live the life she has given me; one filled with unending happiness and love. May God bless her always and may I make her the proudest mother in the world. I may say I live for myself but I truly live and push forward for her.
Every step forward counts as a step in the right direction! ✨
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if there’s anything i believe in these days it’s my own resilience. no matter how many setbacks i come across i am still actively dreaming the best version of myself into existence each and every day. i am relentless in pursuing what i want and i am patient enough to wait for my efforts to pay off. i’ll make it. i’ll always make it.
God is the only one who sustains you, whether an army is pursuing you or you are at home in your own bed. God sustains every breath you take.
Tim Keller (via khadlja)
It’s been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.
L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables (via books-n-quotes)
if there’s anything i believe in these days it’s my own resilience. no matter how many setbacks i come across i am still actively dreaming the best version of myself into existence each and every day. i am relentless in pursuing what i want and i am patient enough to wait for my efforts to pay off. i’ll make it. i’ll always make it.
5 things I did that improved my mental health in the last 1 year 1. I realized my worth. It was so hard because it meant letting go of those who didn’t. And those were the people that I loved. It hurt so bad. When the ropes that tied them to me were cut, I got cut too. I bled. It hurt. But then those wounds healed like wounds always do. And Now? I am free. 2. I started taking care of myself and that involved going back to the things I learned as a child. Brush your teeth. Take a shower. Sleep on time. Sleep enough. Drink loads of water. Walk. Let your skin shower in sunlight. I keep a habit tracker. It’s simple. It lets me be conscious of my daily needs and whether or not I am fulfilling them. 3. I learned that you don’t always have to respond. To what people say, to that person texting you after 8 months of complete silence, to negative comments, to accusations. It doesn’t make you a coward. Not in the least. What it really does is, is let you be at peace. But the hard part? I also learned that you don’t always have to respond to ‘I love you’ either. 4. I learned to not be extreme. Yes I don’t want to do anything with them. But do I need to burn their letters? Delete all pictures? Even when I’m not sure how that will make me feel in the long run? No. I learned to store it all away in a place I wouldn’t touch until I wanted to. It’s been a year. I haven’t once touched. It works for all aspects of life. Had a bad day at work? Do you just yell and quit? No. Have 100 bad days at work where they don’t respect you but still continue to be silent and work? No any extreme isn’t good. 5. Food is important. So important. They just don’t say ‘you are what you eat’ to sound silly. Food is literally you putting something in yourself. You gotta be more mindful of what, when and how much you’re putting in. Don’t restrict yourself. But don’t not monitor yourself either.
redvelvetconfetti (via wnq-writers)
Maybe we’re not supposed to be happy, maybe gratitude has nothing to do with joy. Maybe being grateful means recognizing what you have for what it is, appreciating small victories. Admiring the struggle it takes simply to be human. Maybe we’re thankful for the familiar things we know. And maybe we’re thankful for the things we’ll never know. At the end of the day, the fact that we have the courage to still be standing is reason enough to celebrate.
Grey’s Anatomy (via psych-facts)
“You must convince your heart that whatever God has decreed is most appropriate and most beneficial for you.”
Imam Al-Ghazali (via jannahflowers)