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Sugar, spice, romanticism, resilience & everything nice Artwork: Anonymous. Pinterest.

One where we obsess over woeful love. V caj. As, in the song ‘This Time’, that he wrote for the movie August Rush (go watch it, you’re welcome), Jonathan Rhys Meyers crooned, I've been sitting, watching life pass from the sidelines Been waiting for a dream to seep in through my blinds I wondered what might happen if I left this all behind Would the wind be at my back? Could I get you off my mind T...

Hazaar gham hain, ghamo ka ilaaj hai umeed –Faiz Artwork: Anonymous. Pinterest.

Do not resign yourselves to the world as we know it. As Faiz Ahmed Faiz said, “Chale chalo ki woh manzil abhi nahin aayi; jhoote hain log jo dete hain aasra tum ko — Keep going, for the destination is yet to come; deceitful are they, the ones who promise you refuge.” Artwork: Renoir, Pierre-auguste. Bouquet De Roses Un Vase. 1906, Oil on canvas.

Mind first! – Don’t be afraid to take it slow to keep it steady. PS aren’t onions, with their gossamer peels and many layers, just so pretty? Artwork: Nott, Belinda. Still life with vegetables. Oil on canvas.

Like the lovely Anne said, we’re so glad we live in a world where there are Octobers 🤎 Artwork: Bishop, Richard Evett. Wild Geese. 1936, Etching.

The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart. –Gautama Buddha Artwork: Anonymous. Pinterest.

“..but to me my home was my soul” —Nashwa Rezeq, lived in al-Zahra, Gaza

“They’re afraid of every loud sound and of darkness ” –Amani, 47 years old mother, Gaza city

“How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you was?” – Satchel Paige

Appeler un chat un chat.. to call a cat a cat!

"The darker the night, the brighter the stars; The deeper the grief, the closer is God!" – Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Even if I now saw youonly once,I would long for youthrough worlds,worlds.” ― Izumi Shikibu

“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.” ― Mark Twain

Where the science of medicine meets the art of it

“It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.” ― Robert Louis Stevenson

If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain; If I can ease one life the aching, Or cool one pain, Or help one fainting robin Unto his nest again, I shall not live in vain. –Emily Dickinson

“Emptiness which is conceptually liable to be mistaken for sheer nothingness is in fact the reservoir of infinite possibilities.”― Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki

Because laughter is the best remedy for any malady

There's STILL an apartheid in Palestine, Kashmiris are STILL in lockdown, Yemen is STILL starving, Syrian children STILL have PTSD, people are STILL trafficked in Libya, Afghans are STILL being persecuted, Malians are STILL malnourished, Venezuelans are STILL fleeing their homeland, Iraqis STILL live in fear, the Palestinians and the Lebanese are STILL being robbed of their future, Ethiopians are...

“Let everything happen to you, beauty and terror” -Rainer Maria Rilke

Find out how to concoct a wicked love potion!

Dil badast awar ke Hajj e akbar ast, Az hazaaran Ka’ba ek dil behtar ast — The greater Hajj is finding your heart, Better than a thousand Ka’bas is a heart

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It is bad enough that people are dying of AIDS, but no one should die of ignorance. – Elizabeth Taylor