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reminder to be grateful for what you have & a reminder to repent for what you’ve done.

& a reminder that you are here for a purpose and that purpose is redefined each day (and night) - and you are made with so much strength and resilience - so keep growing and learning and becoming.

just woke up from a divinely 15hrs of sleep, now my head hurts

fluencylevelfrench

Small things to do to be ready for the new year:

Put pictures from your phone on an external drive

Hand in bills to your insurance (if you need to do that)

Put your bills for your taxes for 2024 in one place

Clean your desk/ apartment/ house

Throw away things you don't need anymore-> give them away: maybe: decide on only one place to clean up; e.g. drawer, books, desk etc: don't think you have to clean up everything!

Put dates for the new year into a calendar

Big events/ important events for January? write them down and what you need to do before them

Reflect on this year: What were highlights? What were hard things that made you learn a lesson? What were things you do not want to repeat?

Vorfreude (=the joy of looking forward to something): note down things you're looking forward to/ books you're looking forward to read/ films/shows you're looking forward to watch/ other goals!

[Feel free to add on]

weltenwellen

Hanif Abdurraqib interviewed by Ruth Awad: Joy Is Not Promised to You

kalimatoealhikmah

Shaykh Saalih al-'Usaymi حفظه الله said:

لا تُرهق قلبك بالحزن؛

Don’t exhaust your heart with sadness;

فإنَّه لا يردُّ مفقودًا،

for it does not return a lost one,

ولا يحفظ موجودًا،

nor does it protect a living one.

واملأ قلبك بما يُقوِّيه من الثِّقة بالله،

Fill your heart with that which strengthens it: from putting your trust in Allah,

وتفويض الأمر إليه،

entrusting your affairs to Him,

والاعراض عن الالتفات لغيره،

avoiding turning to anyone but Him,

وحسن الظَّنِّ به،

thinking positively of Him,

واليقين أنَّ الخِيرة فيما اختاره،

and being certain that good is in what He chose.

فتلك سلوة الحزين،

This is the consolation of the sad one,

وسكينة قلوب المؤمنين.

and the tranquility of the hearts of the believers. 🤍

kosmogrl

zlibrary gone... FUCK TIKTOK FUCK BOOKTOK I hope that app burns in hell

dreamingofseastars

library genesis is still up (very similar site) and r/freemediaheckyeah and r/piracy have lots of other alternatives. zlib was the GOAT though. fuck tiktok

(originally commented. putting as a reblog as its important)

kosmogrl

for anyone that wants to know about other sites, I also didn't know so this is a big help!!! thank you!

ichornyra

some sites i use to read online: - https://libgen.li/ - https://www.pdfdrive.com/ - https://libretexts.org/ - https://openlibrary.org/ - https://novel80.com/ - https://www.allfreenovel.com/ - https://bookreadfree.com/ - https://allbookshub.com/ - http://thefreeonlinenovel.com/ - https://www.epub.pub/ - https://www.readingsanctuary.com/ - https://yes-pdf.com/ - https://www.booksfree.org/ if none of the links work if you just search up "(book title) read online free" there's almost always gonna be a pdf link and those are always good to read from too

apoherm-deactivated20231020

“Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better.”

— Albert Camus, Resistance, Rebellion, and Death (via philosophybits)

cynthia-viv-deactivated20240204

"the tired sunsets and the tired people-it takes a lifetime to die and no time at all".

–Charles Bukowski

theorangepdf

getting that august feeling (things that have ended endlessly are ending again)

radical-ghost-town

getting a very weird august. it's been so miserable, it's almost a dark comedy joke

thoughtkick

“Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and they will come forth, later, in uglier ways.”

— Sigmund Freud

#and it shall kill me

nonchalante

reminder to be grateful for what you have & a reminder to repent for what you’ve done.

& a reminder that you are here for a purpose and that purpose is redefined each day (and night) - and you are made with so much strength and resilience - so keep growing and learning and becoming.

#📌 i'd love to pin this in my brain