Mariem Ayed

“Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“We need, in love, to practice only this: letting each other go. For holding on comes easily; we do not need to learn it.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Translations from the Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke

“I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.”
― Anaïs Nin

“You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.”
― Sharon Salzberg