Samar Alshareef > Samar's Quotes

“It happens like this.

"One day you meet someone and for some inexplicable reason, you feel more connected to this stranger than anyone else--closer to them than your closest family. Perhaps this person carries within them an angel--one sent to you for some higher purpose; to teach you an important lesson or to keep you safe during a perilous time. What you must do is trust in them--even if they come hand in hand with pain or suffering--the reason for their presence will become clear in due time."

Though here is a word of warning--you may grow to love this person but remember they are not yours to keep. Their purpose isn't to save you but to show you how to save yourself. And once this is fulfilled; the halo lifts and the angel leaves their body as the person exits your life. They will be a stranger to you once more.

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It's so dark right now, I can't see any light around me.
That's because the light is coming from you. You can't see it but everyone else can.”
― Lang Leav, Love & Misadventure

“What was it like to love him? Asked Gratitude.
It was like being exhumed, I answered, and brought to life in a flash of brilliance.

What was it like to be loved in return? Asked Joy.
It was like being seen after a perpetual darkness, I replied. To be heard after a lifetime of silence.

What was it like to lose him? Asked Sorrow. There was a long pause before I responded:

It was like hearing every goodbye ever said to me—said all at once.”
― Lang Leav, Love & Misadventure

“Soul Mates

I don’t know how you are so familiar to me—or why it feels less like I am getting to know you and more as though I am remembering who you are. How every smile, every whisper brings me closer to the impossible conclusion that I have known you before, I have loved you before—in another time, a different place, some other existence.”
― Lang Leav

“Before I fell
in love with words,
with setting skies
and singing birds—
it was you I fell
in love with first.”
― Lang Leav, Love & Misadventure

“Souls"
When two souls fall in love, there is nothing else but the
yearning to be close to the other. The presence that is felt
through a hand held, a voice heard, or a smile seen.

Souls do not have calendars or clocks, nor do they understand
the notion of time or distance. They only know it feels right to
be with one another.

This is the reason why you miss someone so much when they
are not there— even if they are only in the very next room.
Your soul only feels their absence— it doesn’t realize the
separation is temporary.”
― Lang Leav

“I still search for you in crowds,
in empty fields and soaring clouds.
In city lights and passing cars,
on winding roads and wishing stars.”
― Lang Leav, Lullabies (Volume 2)

“I don't think all writers are sad, she said. I think it's the other way around- all sad people write.”
― Lang Leav

“Do you know what it is like,
to lie in bed awake;
with thoughts to haunt
you every night,
of all your past mistakes.

Knowing sleep will set it right -
if you were not to wake.”
― Lang Leav, Love & Misadventure

“But it was now time for her to go away—to find someone who could show her what happiness was.”
― Lang Leav, Love & Misadventure

“Here are the things I want for you -

I want you to be happy. I want someone else to know the warmth of your smile, to feel the way I did when I was in your presence.

I want you to know how happy you once made me and though you really did hurt me, in the end, I was better for it. I don't know if what we had was love, but if it wasn't, I hope to never fall in love. Because of you, I know I am too fragile to bear it.

I want you to remember my lips beneath your fingers and how you told me things you never told another soul. I want you to know that I have kept sacred, everything you had entrusted in me and I always will.

Finally, I want you to know how sorry I am for pushing you away when I had only meant to bring you closer. And if I ever felt like home to you, it was because you were safe with me. - I want you to know that most of all.”
― Lang Leav, Lullabies (Volume 2)

“كلّما شئت أن أفرّ بقلبي من هواها فررت منها إليها”
― عبدالله البردوني

“بعد الحنين
هل تغفرين لو أنّي أبدي الذي حاولت أخفي ؟
سأقول شيئا تافها يكفي الذي قد كان يكفي
ما عاد يسبقني الحنين إليك أوّ ينجرّ خلفي

ما كان جبارا هواك وإنما قوّاه ضعفى
واليوم لا أبكي نواك ولا إقترابي منك يشفي”
― عبد الله البردوني

“تمتصني أمواج هذا الليل في شَرَهٍ صَموت
وتعيد ما بدأت.. وتنوي أن تفوت ولا تفوت
فتثير أوجاعي وترغمني على وجع السكوت
وتقول لي: مت أيها الذاوي... فأنسى أن أموت !!”
― عبد الله البردوني

“حرماني الحرمان إلاّ أنّني أهذي بعاطفة الحياة و أحلم
و المرء إن أشقاه واقع شؤمه بالغبن أسعده الخيال المنعم”
― عبدالله البردوني

“لا تسألي، لم يعد من تعرفين هنا
ولى وخلف من أنقاضه شبحًا”
― عبدالله البردوني

“إن الحس الديني ليس عائقاً للخيال إذا قام على تفلسف ، لأن الحس الديني المتفلسف يجتاز عالم المنظورات إلى ملكوت السموات و الفراديس ، و هذا يمد آفاق التخيل الشعري ، لأن الإيماء إلى عوالم غير مشهودة يجنح رهافة الرؤية”
― عبد الله البردوني, الثقافة والثورة في اليمن