Rabia

“Love has nothing to do with keeping those you love around.”
― Muriel Maufroy, Rumi's Daughter

“I deserted the world and sought solitude because I became tired of rendering courtesy to those multitudes who believe that humility is a sort of weakness, and mercy a kind of cowardice, and snobbery a form of strength.”
― Kahlil Gibran, Treasury of Kahlil Gibran (Volume 0)

“But we who live in prison, and in whose lives there is no event but sorrow, have to measure time by throbs of pain, and the record of bitter moments. We have nothing else to think of. Suffering ― curious as it may sound to you ― is the means by which we exist, because it is the only means by which we become conscious of existing; and the remembrance of suffering in the past is necessary to us as the warrant, the evidence, of our continued identity.”
― Oscar Wilde, Complete Works of Oscar Wilde

“The appearance of things change according to the emotions, and thus we see magic and beauty in them, while the magic and beauty are really in ourselves.”
― Kahlil Gibran, Treasured Writings of Kahlil Gibran