June 2012
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my beloved has ninety nine names, nothing ever...
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the greatest name, the all compassionate, the all merciful, the absolute ruler, the pure one, the source of peace, the inspirer of faith, the guardian, the victorious, the compeller, the greatest, the creator, the maker of order, the shaper of beauty, the forgiving, the subduer, the giver of all, the sustainer, the opener, the knower of all, the constricter, the reliever, the...
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May 2012
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Give your daughters difficult names. Give your daughters names that command the...
– Warsan Shire. I love this, because not everybody could pronounce my full name.
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Unless it’s mad, passionate, extraordinary love, it’s a waste of...
– Dream for an Insomniac. You may be cynical, but this expresses my stand on love.
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Repetition
The moment I received a message from you my chest hurts like it had been punched although I have never been punched in the chest but it sure feels like I know what it felt like to be punched in the chest whenever I think of you.
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Be regular and ordinary in your life like a bourgeois, so that you may be...
– Gustave Flaubert.
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Things my mom needs to learn before I am gone
How to use the auto-teller machine.
How to use the petrol pump.
The black coffee she makes is probably the best ever in the world.
There are bad people.
Or perhaps there are no bad people, only people who are mislead.
And evidently, she needs to be less trusting of others and more of ME.
This includes trusting me on my driving skills. After all, I am the one who has been driving her all...
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As Muslims, we often focus so much on Islam’s dos and dont’s that we miss the...
– Yasmin Mogahed in The Essence of Islam: Are We Missing the Point? via
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Twin witches
Her: I know you are going to be OK.
Me: How did you figure that one out?
Her: Because you have poetry.
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I’m really afraid to feel happy, because it never lasts.
– Thank you for sharing my sentiment, Mr Andy Warhol.
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The Mad Girls Love Song - Sylvia Plath
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I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my lids and all is born again. (I think I made you up inside my head.)
The stars go waltzing out in blue and red, And arbitrary blackness gallops in: I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead.
I dreamed that you bewitched me into bed And sung me moon-struck, kissed me quite insane. (I think I made you up inside my...
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What if I slept a little more and forgot about all this nonsense.
– Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis. GPOY.
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That is why it is so important to let certain things go. To release them. To cut...
– Paulo Coelho
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I don’t think winners beat the competition because they work harder. And...
– Seth Godin
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The best designer is an aware designer. The best design solutions are found by...
– Wonderful talk by Craig Mod on how great design is born from nourishing habits. via
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We’re a little weird, and life’s a little weird. And when we find...
– Dr Seuss. Might be hard to find someone to amount to my weirdness…
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I couldn’t live a week without a private library - indeed, I’d part...
– H.P Lovecraft
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How can we expect them to connect Hemingway, vectors, pottery, cells, and...
– Why It’s Time to Eliminate Class Schedules - Education - GOOD
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Be prepared to reinvent yourself, be prepared to go out on a limb occasionally,...
– Hillman Curtis, RIP.
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When you use the word ‘flummox,’ for instance, your tongue is rolling across the...
– B.K. Loren, from “Word Hoard” in Parabola, v.28, no.3, August 2003 (via apoetreflects)
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Woke up and reached for the iPad
When we grow old, we are going to sip mocktails at a port in Monaco where our private yachts reside side by side.
Screw you, the Big C. You are not gonna take any of my loved ones again.
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They buy poetry like gang members
buy guns — for aperture, caliber,
heft and...
– Dorianne Laux, “Savages” (via fleurishes)
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Cities force us to interact with strangers and with the strange. They pry the...
– A conversation with Jonah Lehrer on the cities chapter of his excellent book, Imagine: How Creativity Works via. Strangely also, I always feel more at ease in a new city, town or place - somewhere where I will not be judged based on my past, somewhere I can start all over again.
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List of informative Youtube channels →
Whenever you got bored of cat videos. Which, of course, you will not.
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You will fall out of love. You will fall in love. You will fall out of love. You...
– Fielden Nelson, from “Failure Map”