Sara

“قولوا لها إنني لازلت أهواها

مهما يطول النوى لا أنسى ذِكراها

هي الأمالي من الدنيا هي أملي

هي السعادة ما أحلى وأشهاها

قولوا لها إنني لازلت أهواها

هي التي علّمتني كيف أعشقـُها

هي التي قد سقتني شَهْدَ ريّاها

الشّعر من وحيِها درٌّ مرصّعٌ

والفنّ من سحرها واللحن مغناها

روحٌ من الله سوّاها لنا بشراً

كساها حُسناً وجمّلها وحلاّها

فإن عبدتـُها لاإشراك بالله

لأنّني في هواها أعبدُ الله”
― شعر التراث

“I’ve learned that waiting is the most difficult bit, and I want to get used to the feeling, knowing that you’re with me, even when you’re not by my side.”
― Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes

“Mental illness

People assume you aren’t sick
unless they see the sickness on your skin
like scars forming a map of all the ways you’re hurting.

My heart is a prison of Have you tried?s
Have you tried exercising? Have you tried eating better?
Have you tried not being sad, not being sick?
Have you tried being more like me?
Have you tried shutting up?

Yes, I have tried. Yes, I am still trying,
and yes, I am still sick.

Sometimes monsters are invisible, and
sometimes demons attack you from the inside.
Just because you cannot see the claws and the teeth
does not mean they aren’t ripping through me.
Pain does not need to be seen to be felt.

Telling me there is no problem
won’t solve the problem.

This is not how miracles are born.
This is not how sickness works.”
― Emm Roy, The First Step

“I've come to believe that there exists in the universe something I call "The Physics of The Quest" — a force of nature governed by laws as real as the laws of gravity or momentum. And the rule of Quest Physics maybe goes like this: "If you are brave enough to leave behind everything familiar and comforting (which can be anything from your house to your bitter old resentments) and set out on a truth-seeking journey (either externally or internally), and if you are truly willing to regard everything that happens to you on that journey as a clue, and if you accept everyone you meet along the way as a teacher, and if you are prepared – most of all – to face (and forgive) some very difficult realities about yourself... then truth will not be withheld from you." Or so I've come to believe.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love