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أهلاً بكم في عالمي | نازحة من تويتر | 23 | resistance is the purest form of love

[thefreckledarab]

I don't know if I miss you or I miss the person I was when you were in my life. All I know is that no one has managed to fill your place.

[thefreckledarab]

I may have been a mere footnote in your life, but you were an entire chapter in mine

[umtxqwa]

البلاء الذي يُدنيك من الله، خيرٌ من النعمة التي تُبعدك عنه.

The affliction that brings you closer to Allāh, is better than the blessing that distances you from Him.

وعسى أن تكرهوا شيئا وهو خير لكم

“And perhaps you dislike a thing while it is better for you.” [Al-Baqarah: 216]

[thefreckledarab]

إسرائيل ليست أقوى من أميركا، والشعب الفلسطيني ليس أضعف من الشعب الفييتنامي.

'Israel' is not more powerful than the United States, and the Palestinian people are not weaker than the Vietnamese (Viet Cong).

- حكيم الثورة، جورج حبش

- Georges Habash

[thefreckledarab]

لا تصالح، ولو منحوك الذهب

لا تصالح على الدم حتى بدم

لا تصالح، ولو قيل رأس برأسٍ

لا تصالح، ولو توجوك بتاج الإمارة

لا تصالح، ولو قيل ما قيل من كلمات السلام

لا تصالح، ولا تقتسم مع من قتلوك الطعام

لا تصالح لا تصالح لا تصالح

Do not reconcile (with the enemy, ie Israel),

even if they offered you gold;

Do not reconcile over blood even with blood;

Do not reconcile even if they said a head for a head;

Do not reconcile even if they bestow leadership upon you;

Do not reconcile no matter how much they talk to you about peace;

Do not reconcile and do not share food with those who have killed you;

Do not reconcile, do not reconcile, do not reconcile.

[catgirlcaliphate]

Y'all remember "cops aren't supposed to kill guilty people, either", right?

Palestinians who have done something wrong don't deserve to die beneath the rubble of their homes.

Palestinians who have done something wrong don't deserve to be shot with expanding bullets that cause massive tissue damage leading to amputation.

Palestinians who have done something wrong don't deserve to have their flesh burned away with white phosphorous.

Palestinians who have done something wrong don't deserve their fishing boats blown up.

Palestinians who have done something wrong don't deserve to see their husbands and fathers executed in front of them along evacuation routes.

Palestinians who have done something wrong don't deserve an anonymous phone call threatening to destroy their lives and families.

Palestinians who have done something wrong don't deserve to be detained for years without charges.

Palestinians who have done something wrong don't deserve to be tortured, starved, and sexually assaulted in prison.

Palestinians who have done something wrong don't deserve to be deprived of water.

Palestinians who have done something wrong don't deserve their olive trees to be uprooted while they look on.

Palestinians who have done something wrong don't deserve sixteen years of blockade.

Palestinians who have done something wrong don't deserve to be prevented from traveling for lifesaving medical care.

Palestinians who have done something wrong don't deserve this genocide.

[thefreckledarab]

Except Palestinians did not do ANYTHING wrong. They have been living under a settler colonial entity for the past 75 years. They have been fighting for sovereignty over their land for the past ~100 years. Every single thing the Palestinians do is in self-defense. The real aggressor, since 1948, is 'Israel'. They don't deserve a genocide because no person deserves to be ethnically cleansed from the lands of his ancestors, NOT because they did anything wrong because they didn't.

[thefreckledarab]

يقودني إليك شوقٌ لا ينتهي، ويردّني عنك جرحٌ أنت صاحبهُ.

[thefreckledarab]

ينتابني شعور أني قد أنسى نفسي قبل أن أنساك

[thefreckledarab]

ما وحشتك؟

Didn't you miss me?

[w-hy-n0t-deactivated20180409]

“It’s important to keep your feelings and your self worth in different places - because when your feelings get hurt, it shouldn’t change how you view yourself.”

— Unknown  (via briqou)

Oh wow

(via princesspoller)

[thefreckledarab]

Which is why I think it's important to have multiple 'identities' or sources of self-worth, so if you get your feelings hurt in a way that damages one identity, you still have other identities that give you self-worth. These identities are natural, and they derive from the different roles we play in our daily lives. For example, I am a daughter, a sister, a friend, a best friend, a cousin, a student, a citizen, etc. All these are individual sources of self-worth.

[thefreckledarab]

I'm like if daddy's little princess had mommy issues

[thefreckledarab]

My hand doesn’t bend And my heart cannot be belittled And I don’t fall

[thefreckledarab]

What cannot be said, will be wept

Sappho

[meanwhilepoetry]

The way I love you is easy. It isn’t the kind of wild, quick to light and quick to end passion they talk about in movies. There are no dragons to slay or wars to fight in our movie. It is comfort. It is understanding, it is softness of the very best kind. I love the way the river loves the ocean. It’s the kind of feel good movie that starts on a slightly sad note and ends on an inspiring one. Always finding a way to ebb and flow back to it. And the way the sun rises only after kissing the horizon. There is something so quiet and soft about it. We never shout at each other. We never scream. There isn’t any hostility or anger or resentment. When we do speak, it is soft, the way a bird sings the morning awake. Or how you listen to the waves softly sweep to the land at night. There is a sensitivity there, a maturity beyond our years. An old sort of love, the kind of love that makes people envious when they hear of it’s serenity. I suppose explain to them that this is what happens when two old souls find each other is pointless. Why explain something that is too big to define and too beautiful to waste explaining away? Instead, I will stay here with you. In this moments of quiet, in these moments where we do not ask questions, where we do not doubt our belonging, nor do we hurt in any way. Let us enjoy the spring we have created out of the winters we have faced in our lives. Let us take everything about ourselves and accept each other for who we are. And let us not cry and try to change each other. Instead, let us just grow together for as long as we can grow together. And kiss each other goodbye gently and remember each other well, if the time comes for us to part.

Nikita Gill, When Two Old Souls Love Each Other (via meanwhilepoetry)

[meanwhilepoetry]

Examine the depth of the wound first. Then remind yourself no matter how deep it goes, you will be able to heal it, because you have been able to heal every single wound inflicted on your heart and soul before. You will be able to find the light at the end of the wound, because you have found a way before.

Nikita Gill (via meanwhilepoetry)

[softlenaluthor]

If you continue to do what you did, you’re going to continue to get what you got.

one of my therapist’s favorite things to say to me which i’m now trying to repeat in my head like a damn mantra (via smolperalta)

[onlinecounsellingcollege]

Healing is layers. Healing is time. Healing is excruciating. Once you think it’s done, it’s not.

Mary DeMuth (via onlinecounsellingcollege)