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to love someone is firstly to confess: i'm prepared to be devastated by you. by A History of My Brief Body by Billy-Ray Belcourt

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“People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they’re not on your road doesn’t mean they’ve gotten lost.”

— Dalai Lama

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'dancing celestial deity, indian (uttar pradesh), early 12th century' in jewelry: the body transformed - melanie holcomb (2018)

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“Some mornings / in summer I step outside / and the sky opens / and pours itself into me / as if I were a saint / about to die.”

— Lisel Mueller, from Second Language: Poems; “There Are Mornings” 

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beauty in the simple things.

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Mirabai, translated by Jane Hirshfield, from a poem titled "Don't Go, Don't Go,"

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knitted textures from 'the encyclopedia of knitting,' lesley stanfield and melody griffith, pub. 2000.

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Always bet on yourself 💗

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I'm what the poets preach "a mess, a muse, a moon."

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If you were a vegetable, you’d be a cute-cumber.