"If you want something in your life and you aren’t praying tahajjud for it, then in reality you don’t really want it."
— Sh. Yasir Qadhi (I think!)
"It isn’t the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it’s the pebble in your shoe."
— Muhammad Ali
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Somewhere in my marriage contract there needs to be a clause that husband is responsible for killing all bugs.
“It is both humiliating and humbling to discover that a single generation after the events that constructed me as a public personality, I am remembered as a hairdo.”
—Angela Davis
(Source: misskayvee, via its-salah)
"If love has blinded you, don’t get married yet until you can see who you’re marrying."
— Sh. Abdulbary Yahya
"How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young?"
— Paul Sweeney
(Source: heartmindawakening, via youcantairbrushpersonality)
"I don’t know what they are called, the spaces between seconds– but I think of you always in those intervals."
— Salvador Plascencia
(Source: dailystendhalnitesaudade, via vaginaforpresident)
Today, I interviewed a woman who is terminally ill. “So,” I tried to delicately ask, “What is it like to wake up every morning and know that you are dying?” “Well,” she responded, “What is it like to wake up every morning and pretend that you are not?”
"We’re not given happiness. We’re given blessings, and happiness is up to us. Happiness is not a goal, it is a state of mind."
"I want to tell someone something truthful. I feel as if I’ve been treading water for a year. Just to keep afloat. And all the time the tide’s been taking me out to sea."
— Kureishi
(Source: modernmethadone, via soodarknessibecame)
”If a man has an apartment stacked to the ceiling with newspapers we call him crazy. If a woman has a trailer house full of cats we call her nuts. But when people pathologically hoard so much cash that they impoverish the entire nation, we put them on the cover of Fortune magazine and pretend that they are role models.”
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(Source: blog-anglophonic, via sanahlovesyou)
