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ophelia - john everett millais / nettles - ethel cain

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Albert Camus, from a notebook entry featured in Notebooks of Albert Camus, 1935-1942

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We Have Not Long To Love, Tennessee Williams

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ray bradbury

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Everything Is Going to Be Alright

by Derek Mahon

How should I not be glad to contemplate the clouds clearing beyond the dormer window and a high tide reflected on the ceiling? There will be dying, there will be dying, but there is no need to go into that. The poems flow from the hand unbidden and the hidden source is the watchful heart; the sun rises in spite of everything and the far cities are beautiful and bright. I lie here in a riot of sunlight watching the day break and the clouds flying. Everything is going to be all right.

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Perhaps the World Ends Here, Joy Harjo

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Sylvia Plath, from The Unabridged Journals [ID in alt text]

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— James Baldwin, from If Beale Street Could Talk

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mary oliver, ‘from this river, when i was a child, i used to drink’

[ID: “‘What, precisely, will you grieve for?’ For the river. For myself, my lost joyfulness. For the children who will not know what a river can be—a friend, a companion, a hint of heaven.” end ID]

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Mary Oliver, "From The Book of Time." Devotions

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Charlotte Brontë, from Villette

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can someone teach me how to be emotionally regulated and not be sensitive or take things personally

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Swann’s Way, Marcel Proust (tr. C. K. Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin)

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Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra originally published 1873

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Robert Greene didn’t say it exactly like this, but in The Laws of Human Nature, he clearly explains how we should judge character & not how someone makes us feel

It’s easy to get swept up by charm, attention, or chemistry. But Greene says to pay attention to people’s patterns, not their promises. Don’t just listen to what they say, watch what they do

The faster you learn to read someone’s true character, the more time, energy & heartache you save

That one skill alone can change your whole life

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Whatever you do, keep on moving. Lack of action will have you going down into mental spirals that will cause confusion, anxiety, and depression. Regardless of how things may appear like in the moment or what fears may be clouding your mind, you have to keep moving. Be mindful of the present, and focus on the things you can change today, not on what could happen tomorrow. Do not become paralyzed, because more often than not, things tend to end up being much better in the end than we previously thought possible.