باغ بہاراں تے گلزاراں بن یاراں کس کاری ؟

Fyodor Dostoevsky's manuscript draft of The Brothers Karamazov. via twitter

Lang Leav

Me running from the emotions this quote is making me feel.

-William Wordsworth

Ab to ummeed hi nahi hai usko ru-ba-ru dekhne ki,

Bas ek khwab mein mulaqat ho jaye, to zarurat nahi rahegi marne ki

Tumhein jab ru-ba-ru dekha karenge, ye socha hai bohot socha karenge.

Whenever I’ll get to see you face to face, I think I will think a lot.

— Mohsin Naqvi

“Mai iss qadar haar jaaunga, . Tum jeet kar pachtaoge”

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Jaun Elia

August 15, 2022

12:12 AM, Bangalore, India 

"Oh learn to read what silent love hath writ,

To hear with eyes belongs to love's fine wit"

-William Shakespeare, Sonnet-23

We don't want to be loved. That's a huge misconception. We want to love. All of us would rather pick a person that we love, than a person that loves us with all their heart. We don't want to be worshipped. We want to worship. We'd all rather be murdered at the shrine of a person we love dearly, than be prayed for.

Maybe it's because we think little of ourselves, maybe it's because we think we don't deserve to be loved, maybe we think loving others gives us some form of atonement for our sins, who knows?

But the point is, when you say you want love in your life, don't lie and say that you wish someone would love you.

Tony Hoagland, from “Peaceful Transition”, What Narcissism Means to Me

not evil anymore i want to be loved now