Shayma'a

“The way you are self-sabotaging: Mindlessly scrolling through social media as a way to pass the time. What your subconscious mind might want you to know: This is one of the easiest ways to numb yourself, because it is so accessible and addictive. There is a world-altering difference between using social media in a healthy way versus as a coping mechanism. Mostly, it has to do with how you feel after you’re finished. If you don’t put the phone down feeling inspired or relaxed, you’re probably trying to avoid some kind of discomfort within yourself—the very discomfort that just might be telling you that you need to change.”
― Brianna Wiest, The Mountain Is You: Transforming Self-Sabotage Into Self-Mastery

“There are people like him (so he says) who complicate their inner lives by feeling too much all at once, by living in knots, and who therefore need outer things to be simple. A house, a field, some sheep for example. And there are those who manage somehow, by some miracle of being, to simplify their inner lives so that outer things can be ambitious and limitless. Those people can swap out a house for a spaceship, a field for a universe.”
― Samantha Harvey, Orbital

“الحقيقة أنت لا تساوي ما تعطي.. لا تساوي أي شيء من الذي تعطيه لأنها أشياء أو مشاعر ليس أكثر.. أما أنت فليس من ضمن الخيارات أن يتم مقارنتك بأشياء من الأساس.”
― الشيماء عبد العال, فخ التعلق: خطواتك للتعافي من العلاقات السامة

“من خلال نظرتك لنفسك سينظر لك الآخر.”
― الشيماء عبد العال, فخ التعلق: خطواتك للتعافي من العلاقات السامة