Raina

“These pains you feel are messengers. Listen to them.”
― Rumi, The Essential Rumi

“Saying grace before a meal. Watching our breath. Repeating the ninety-nine names of Allah. Whirling like a dervish. Prayer. They all have one objective: to get us to pause just long enough to realize that life, your life, is a freaking miracle. The least you can do is pay attention.”
― Eric Weiner, Man Seeks God: My Flirtations with the Divine

“At that moment in her life, Elisa was, he realized, almost pathologically attracted not to status or money or good looks but to literary and intellectual potential.”
― Adelle Waldman, The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P.