Qasim Farooq

Sarkari Muzlim. Mulazim. Informing & Disinforming. LUMS 17'.
mein urrna seekh raha hun, bahadur bhi ban kar dikhaon ga.

[Qasim Farooq @MangoLassC]

"O God, grant me peace, so i accept that which i am powerless to change."

[Dr. Julie Gurner @drgurner]

Seneca hits you with a brick.
Pay attention to your life.

[Qasim Farooq @MangoLassC]

applies as much to public policy as it does to mountaineering

[Qasim Farooq @MangoLassC]

also love how the bhaiyya kabab house in model town started the bite size kebab trend, and put up a picture of the baba jee who pioneered it, and now the entire market is just full of bhaiyya kebab shops with eerily similar looking baba jees

[h @jamtoastaurchai]

I like when Pakistani restaurants put a photo of the uncle ji who started the place 3 decades ago on their board outside and the photo always looks like a mugshot and it’s never them smiling or looking welcoming in any way

[Shervin Malekzadeh شروین ملک زاده @Swarthy_Bastard]

Probably my all-time favorite front cover

[Atlas Press @realAtlasPress]

James Baldwin, parenting in a nutshell

[Qasim Farooq @MangoLassC]

poetry (the reformist, meaningful one) has to be the pinnacle of human intelligence

[maddie rune🪰 @themaddierune]

Writing taught me that clarity is an act of courage. It's easy to stay vague. Vague is safe. Vague doesn't commit to anything.

[Qasim Farooq @MangoLassC]

that new kaavish song feels like a warm hug and a punch to the gut, both at the same time.

[Nicholas Fabiano, MD @NTFabiano]

Mentally healthy people are often delusionally optimistic.

[Qasim Farooq @MangoLassC]

theres always a reason to be fearful of change and that is where all of man’s misery lies

[Dylan O'Sullivan @DylanoA4]

I say this line by Cormac McCarthy in my head at least twice a week

[r @6ffside]

i always go back to this

[Sanjal Sangle @gunnergworl]

idk about arsenal but this motivated me for life

[عبداللہ @Blahhhhhh34]

Me after getting reclassified from south Asia to middle east

[✒️ @Literariium]

“Asking is a moment’s shame; not asking is a lifetime’s shame”

— Japanese Proverb

[Prof. Carl Sagan @ProfCarlSagan]

Do not use your energy to worry. Use your energy to believe, to create, to learn, to think and to grow.

- Richard Feynman