"Far too many people are looking for the right person, instead of trying to be the right person."

Gloria Steinem (via islamicgirl)

"I think it’s very healthy to spend time alone. You need to know how to be alone and not be defined by another person."

Oscar Wilde (via triquetrum)

"You should desire for others what you desire for yourself, and hate for others what you hate for yourself. Do not oppress, as you do not like to be oppressed. Do good to others as you would like good to be done to you. Regard bad for yourself whatever you regard bad for others. Accept that treatment from others which you would like others to accept from you. Do not talk about what you do not know, even though what you know be very little. Do not say to others what you do not like to be said to you."

Imam Ali ibn Abi Talib (a), Nahjul Balagha (via yaseeneducation)

"Stop seeing yourself as a list of problems. I caught myself thinking - this is when I was 34 - ‘I’ll write a book when my life begins’. I caught myself thinking this and I thought ‘What do I mean when my life begins?’ Then I realised what I meant was when I was finally properly thin and very smooth and my hair was naturally brilliant and I had a walk-in wardrobe like the one Carrie Bradshaw has in Sex and the City and my house was tidy and I’d finally gotten round to having a regular manicure and pedicure regime…I don’t know, just kind of perfect. Pretty, I guess, and kind of perfect, and everything was serene and calm. And then I started…this is the argument I’m having in my head, and the cleverer me is going ‘What the fuck are you on about? That’s never going to happen. If it was going to happen it would have happened by now. You’re 34. Your life has already begun. It began in 1975 when you were born. If you’re doing to do something, get on with it now. Stop waiting.’ I think women have this feeling of waiting - when I’ve just lost that bit of weight, then things will happen, then things will be possible. Stop seeing yourself as a list of problems, stop going ‘Everything will be fine when I’ve sorted these things out’, start enjoying your life now."

Caitlin Moran on what advice she would give to young women (via wordsthat-speak)

"You can’t be good to others if you’re not strict with yourself. The more shallow you are with yourself, the harsher you are with others. The more profound you are with yourself, the more generous you are with others."

Tariq Ramadan  (via she-turns-to-be)

"I close my eyes but can’t fall asleep, my body dying for rest while my mind’s wide awake."

Haruki Murakami - Kafka on the Shore (via pakizah)

"The birds have flown to freedom,
the cage lies empty.
Your happy songs bring to me
the scent of heaven.
Please keep singing."

Rumi (via fuckyeahrumi)

"I go through phases. Somedays I feel like the person I’m supposed to be, and then somedays, I turn into no one at all. There is both me and my silhouette. I hope that on the days you find me and all I am are darkened lines, you still are willing to be near me."

(via arabarabarab)

"That is why it is so important to let certain things go. To release them. To cut loose. People need to understand that no one is playing with marked cards; sometimes we win and sometimes we lose. Don’t expect to get anything back, don’t expect recognition for your efforts, don’t expect your genius to be discovered or your love to be understood. Complete the circle. Not out of pride, inability or arrogance, but simply because whatever it is no longer fits in your life. Close the door, change the record, clean the house, get rid of the dust. Stop being who you were and become who you are."

Paulo Coehlo (via wordsthat-speak)

"She’s sitting right in front of me, but at the same time she’s a million miles away."

Haruki Murakami, After Dark (via murmurrs)

"I love you crookedly because my heart’s been unhinged from birth. The doctors gave me strict instructions not to fall in love: my fragile clockwork heart would never survive. But when you gave me a dose of love so powerful - far beyond my wildest dreams - that I felt able to confront anything for you, I decided to put my life in your hands."

Mathias Malzieu, The Boy with the Cuckoo-Clock Heart (via helplesslyamazed)

"May I never miss a sunset or a rainbow because I am looking down."

Sara June Parker (via kari-shma)

"How lovely is the sun after rain, and how lovely is laughter after sorrow"

Tunisian Proverb  (via arabarabarab)

"Your own soul is nourished when you are kind; it is destroyed when you are cruel."

King Solomon (via cosmofilius)

"You cannot say no to life, you have to fight back and beat the odds, you gotta take your stand because nothing is stronger than you, not a single problem of yours."

Shubhanshu Tiwari