Zainab

“I’m tired, can’t think of anything and want only to lay my face in your lap, feel your hand on my head and remain like that through all eternity.”

“If I know what love is, it is because of you.”

“You will continue to suffer if you have an emotional reaction to everything that is said to you. True power is sitting back and observing everything with logic. If words control you that means everyone else can control you. Breathe and allow things to pass.”

“All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.”

“We held each other tightly, for a long while, and we felt that no cold or weariness or anything on earth could touch us.”

“People don’t settle for people. They resolve to be with them. It takes faith. You draw a circle in the sand and agree to stand in it and believe in it.”

“When one of your dreams come true, you begin to look at the others more carefully.”

“Choose a thought. Pretend that’s already happened. Be excited about it. Watch what happens.”

Listen. Are you breathing just a little, and calling it a life?

“You will find that it is necessary to let things go; simply for the reason that they are heavy. So let them go, let go of them. I tie no weights to my ankles.”

“What we speak becomes the house we live in.” – Hafez”

“My God and my Lord, who do I Have besides You”

“Be more than a member of the human race. Be a mender of the human race.”

“Distance has a great way of showing us the difference between love and attachment.”

“Love is vivid. I never wanted the pale version.”

“Tell me, Atlas. What is heavier: The world or its people’s hearts?”

“Gently, gently make room for happiness at last.”