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Hadi 🎩

@hadi1370

People sometimes throw themselves into a swamp of negative thoughts and stay there so long that they get used to living in that difficult state. They forget it’s a swamp—and that they’re slowly fading away. It’s really hard to pull someone out of that self-made prison. The best way is for that person to realize it on their own and choose to fight for their freedom.

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Hadi 🎩

@hadi1370

How much should we strive to achieve the things we love in life? Can we even reach them through effort? Are they really worth all that struggle? When we know that it’s the circumstances around us that intensify these struggles—not the things themselves! And the most important question: if we’re spending all this time trying so hard, when will we actually live?!

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Angelika Kollin

@angelikakollin

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Hadi 🎩

@hadi1370

Sometimes we get tired, and perhaps no matter how much we try, we don’t reach a result. Maybe the most “normal” answer to such situations is that our effort itself was what mattered, or that we simply didn’t try hard enough. But in my opinion, the real answer to this problem is that we still haven’t learned to accept that trying and not achieving a result is also a perfectly ordinary event—just like all the other events in our lives. It’s the way we place value on success that makes failure feel so hard; that’s the real issue.

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Hadi 🎩

@hadi1370

Alright, if you died right now, what would you regret? What's that stuff you always wanted to do? Make a list. And then go do one of them. Congratulations! You're now one step closer to death.

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Hadi 🎩

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Like they say, people change their mood every hour, and the world is the same. We see some of its signs: happiness and sadness, peace and anger, jealousy and empathy...

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Hadi 🎩

@hadi1370

Living in the moment, without thinking about the past that's gone or the future that hasn't come... just being present between two nothings. That's probably the highest level a person can reach!

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Hadi 🎩

@hadi1370

Being patient is the best way to live a peaceful life, but man, it's also the hardest thing in the world!

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Hadi 🎩

@hadi1370

Realizing that life is fluid and full of gray areas helps us remember the good scenes even during the tough moments. If we're in a situation we don't like, we shouldn't think about leaving the scene—we should keep playing our part till the very last line of the script!

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Angelika Kollin

@angelikakollin

Life feels like a movie right now, with the occasional still frame to pause and reflect. It’s strange how deeply we belong to some places and how detached we feel from others - much like trees that refuse to sink their roots into soil that feels foreign to the blossoms they produce.

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Hadi 🎩

@hadi1370

"If only a person could carry their homeland, like violets, and take it wherever they go!" Only people who've had to leave their homeland because of bad, dictatorial governments—whether it's them or their parents—really get this feeling.

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Hadi 🎩

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The toughest choice a person has to make is when they don't wanna be like everyone else or the people around them, and they wanna choose a different path to walk. But the hardest choices often lead to the best outcomes...

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Hadi 🎩

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Kurt Vonnegut has this quote saying that the purpose of human life is to love the people around you, so that you can be loved in return. But I wanna say, there are times when you might love the people in your life, but their response to you might not be love. That’s when you have to do the hardest thing in life: love without expecting anything back from others. It’s really tough, but well—real life is really tough!

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Angelika Kollin

@angelikakollin

I am having such a profound experience on this trip, as if I am stepping into something new, something exquisitely beautiful. The land itself is lullabying me with tenderness, enfolding me in the spell of its folklore, reawakening in me the knowledge of its sounds, so delicately spun into the air of this place. And while nature shifts gently from summer into autumn, I feel as though I’ve been given a gift - the freedom to choose my own seasons. I trust my heart to lead me toward the one meant for me. ostara 2018

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Angelika Kollin

@angelikakollin

A close friend sent me a voice note, an impromptu song she had recorded in a rush of inspiration. By the time I could respond, during a layover, she had already slipped into self-doubt, convinced it wasn’t good enough. Yet it was beautiful, truly beautiful, and I told her so the very first moment I could. It made me think about how delicate we become when we dare to step into vulnerability and share ourselves openly. Even with our closest and most welcoming friends, we sometimes shrink at the thought of revealing too much, of not being liked, or worse - being rejected. Did you know that the word vulnerability comes from the Latin vulnerare, meaning “to wound”? To me, being vulnerable is exactly that - stepping into the world, or offering something of ourselves, while remaining open to the possibility of being wounded. And yet, the real magic happens there too. When we meet reality in this way, with openness instead of defense, the world has a way of responding and reorienting itself around us. We humans are more fragile than we like to admit and this is why we need our safety nets in the world - people who encourage us when we most need it. People who can hold our hand as we grow into new skin and take risks. People who love us.

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