“Happiness Is Not The Absence Of Problems, It’s The Ability To Deal With Them.”

İstanbul by @omererkamoglu

#istanbul

Adonis, Selected Poems; “Beginnings of the Body, Ends of the Sea” (tr. Khaled Mattawa)

أعود ..

لأنّها كفني . أعود

لأنّها بدني

أعود لأنها وطني

I return..

Because she is my shroud. I return

Because she is my body.

I return because she is my nation.

- Mahmoud Darwish

“We often want it so badly that we ruin it before it begins. Overthinking. Fantasizing. Imagining. Expecting. Worrying. Doubting. Just let it naturally evolve.”

— Anonymous 

“If you love deeply, you’re going to get hurt badly. But it’s still worth it.”

— C.S. Lewis 

“When you’ve suffered a great deal in life, each additional pain is both unbearable and trifling.”

— Yann Martel 

“The fact is that five years ago I was, as near as possible, a different person to what I am tonight. I, as I am now, didn’t exist at all. Will the same thing happen in the next five years? I hope so.”

— Siegfried Sassoon 

—H.G. Wells, The Time Machine

لتكون سعيداً بكل شيء ، يجب عليك أولاً أن تكون سعيداً بلا شيء

“To be happy with everything, you must first be happy with nothing”

چشم نمیتوند عشق را پنهان کند

— Cheshm nametana ishq-ra penhaan kunad

‘’The eye does not know how to hide love.’’