“Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.”
- Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago
(via the-book-diaries)
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قبل ان تتعلق بأحد كن مستعداً لغيابه
Before you grow attached to someone, be prepared for their absence.
وَلَقَدْ نَعْلَمُ أَنَّكَ يَضِيقُ صَدْرُكَ بِمَا يَقُولُونَ
We are aware that your heart is strained by what they say.
— Surat Al-Hijr 15:97
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A passion for something absent,
“On nights like this I break my heart again,”— Cecil John Rhodes, from “Disillusion,” published c. September 1923
الأُمُ بِحَارٌ مِن خَيْرٍ
A mother is an ocean of goodness.
The art of having a heart, and ignoring these feelings.