Najwa Zebian

Why am I doing what I'm doing? Ask yourself this question when you want to do anything. Diamonds placed in the wrong setting are worth nothing, so if your time and energy are put towards no purpose, you're not moving anywhere.

If you can know that the slightest change in my voice means that I am happy, sad, frustrated, amazed, irritated, or tired, then you are close to me because you are close to my soul and you can understand the way that it is expressing itself.

Don’t be the one who gets fooled by an egg dipped in gold.

A dedication to you,
fellow human

These mountains that you are
carrying,
you were only supposed to
climb.

I loved the parts of you that I did not
own.

And you owned the parts of me that you did not
love.

The mistake most of us make is that we build our homes in other people in the hope that they will deem us worthy of being welcomed inside. We feel so abandoned and empty when people leave, because we’ve invested so much of ourselves in them.

can heal a recent wound, but if you haven’t come to terms with your past wounds, you can be sure those wounds will turn into scars that will continue to define you.

When something traumatic happens to us, we look for someone to blame.

I blamed myself for wanting that. I blamed myself for not feeling genuine happiness without that. I even blamed myself for my ache, my longing, to feel that.

Home is not a physical place. It is the place where your soul feels it belongs, where you can unapologetically be yourself, where you are loved for your authentic self. Home is the place where you don’t have to work hard just to be loved.