Zaid Ismail
Zaid Ismail
@zaidie@zaidismail.com

Author, life coach, and mental health activist. We need to change the narrative from disorders, illnesses, and survival to accountability, understanding, and thriving.

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  • That’s what I think of your carefully cloaked hypocrisy under the guise of secularism. Oppress religion by establishing your own! (Source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/tessroby/6149223044/in/photostream)

  • The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt. Bertrand Russell (via quote-book)

  • Sincere reciprocation is the highest form of gratitude. Cynically Jaded

  • Oddly true…despite the blasphemous under tones.  (Source: http://skinlikewinter.tumblr.com/)

  • As soon as you see something, you already start to intellectualize it. As soon as you intellectualize something, it is no longer what you saw. Shunryu Suzuki-roshi (via lightspiritlove)

  • That’s what real love amounts to – letting a person be what he really is. Most people love you for who you pretend to be. To keep their love, you keep pretending – performing. You get to love your pretence. It’s true, we’re locked in an image, an act – and the sad thing is,…

  • the train stopped on the way home today

    howfreeitis: The train has suddenly stopped. Stopped in its tracks on the way home. I sit calmly amidst the tense frenzied air. I am always the peace in the middle of others’ chaos. I press my face against the cold glass, breath of fury condensing on the windowpane. Quiet fury. Euphoric fury. Wild contemplation. What…

  • Truth…something most are unfamiliar with. (Source: http://life-confessions.tumblr.com)