Spring Blooms • Oregon Coast

Seeing those who left, in a dream, is the most painful kind of meetings. رؤية الغائبين في الأحلام أشد أنواع اللقاء وجعا

(via nizariat)

“دل من میخی بر دیوار نیست که کاغذپاره‌های عشق را بر آن بیاویزی My heart is not a nail on the wall Where you can pin your love drafts…”

— Ghada Al-Samman

The female doesn’t want a rich man or a handsome man or even a poet. She wants a man who understands her eyes if she gets sad, and points to his chest and says: ‘Here is your home country.’

 Nizar Qabbani (via mesogeios)

“I have a list in my head of all the feelings I still want to feel before I die. And you have ticked so many things off that list.” - Iain Thomas, I Wrote This For You (via the-book-diaries)

Day Two Hundred Eighty One.

She Quietly asks “How can you love me?” He Answers without pause “How could I not?”

Things to do for your Parents this Ramadan

[And always]

Help cook iftar (or cook for them)

Clean the house

Bake something they love for iftar

Wake up early to make them suhoor

Read Quran to them

Do the laundry and ironing

Surprise them with flowers or a small gift they love

Invite them to your own iftar gatherings

Do the dishes for suhoor & iftar

Write them a card of appreciation

Give them a massage

Be on top of house hold chores

Spend time with them in general - reading, talking, walking, etc.

Pray with them

Give them your company while they do the things they enjoy (even if you don’t enjoy it)

Create a mini “vacation” for them

Ask them about their childhood and upbringing

Work hard in school

Do yard work

Show them love around your friends or in public

Serve them in your home

Compliment your parents often

Hug and kiss them often

Always say thank you

Ask for advice and their opinion on things going on in your life

Tell them about what is going on in your life (with your friends, school, work, etc.)

Always say salam to them

Tell them where you’re going and text them when you think you’ll be home when you’re out

Spend more nights with them

Hold your anger/impatience always

Listen to Islamic lectures with them

Ask if they need anything

Wash their cars

Help with groceries

If they repeat the same story or comment, do not get annoyed - simply listen

Offer to drive them places

Share your favorite ayah or surah with them

Make dua for them often, especially in taraweeh

Ask them to teach you Quran or about hadiths they know of

Answer their requests immediately

Don’t text while you’re with them

Help them with technology or anything else they have questions about

Make sure they have been to the doctors recently

Kiss their hands

Cherish everyone around you. You just never know when they will die. Life is unpredictable.

(via bbreakddancennothhearts)

Hello darkness my old friend, I’ve come to talk with you again.

The sound of silence (via chaotic-emotions)

Falling in love with their eyes

They say that eyes don’t age so when you fall love with someone’s eyes, you’ll be in love with them forever. Maybe that’s why I always fall for people because of their eyes. It’s the way their eyes look. How the light in them shines, how they look so deep that they seem to devour you whole. How they look so sincere and smart and full of potential. Promising, like the beginning of something new and unexpected.

you’re the best part of my day people often say “love is what makes you smile even when you’re tired” and you have proven that you are love