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Sometimes I hyperfocus so hard on something, I forget I’m a person until someone interacts with me. I feel like some wild animal seeing a human being for the first time. I’m like “oh yeah I’m supposed to speak and stuff”

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Pollenca Old Town, Mallorca, Spain.

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quotes that help me survive:

“You are not lost. You are here. Stop abandoning yourself. Stop repeating this myth about love and success that will land in your lap or evade you forever. Build a humble, flawed life from the rubble, and cherish that. There is nothing more glorious on the face of the earth than someone who refuses to give up, who refuses to give in to their most self-hating, discouraged, disillusioned self, and instead learns, slowly and painfully, how to relish the feeling of building a hut in middle of the suffocating dust.” — Heather Havrilesky, Ask Polly

this tumblr text post:

“To live in this world you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go.” — Mary Oliver

From an interview with Kazu Makino:

Instructions On Not Giving Up, Ada Limon:

And this poster by Yumi Sakugawa

“You have to believe, in your heart, that even if you don’t work hard and exercise and think positive thoughts and make new friends and march triumphantly into the future, you are still enough. You will always have bad days. Being broken doesn’t make you a loser. You can crumble, and you will still be enough. Make that your religion moving forward. You are here to feel this moment. You are not here to become someone better. You are not here to impress or compete. You are not here to prove yourself. You are here to savor this life. Let down your guard. You are already enough. Believe it.” — Heather Havrilesky

“The first feminist gesture is to say: “Ok. They’re looking at me. But I’m looking at them.” The act of deciding to look, of deciding that the world is not defined by how people see me, but by how I see them.” -Agnès Varda

lyrics from the song Grow by The Oh Hellos:

“The world’s otherness is antidote to confusion, that standing within this otherness—the beauty and the mystery of the world, out in the fields or deep inside books—can re-dignify the worst-stung heart.” — Mary Oliver

“I hope you will go out and let stories, that is life, happen to you,and that you will work with these stories from your life--not someone else's life--water them with your blood and tears and your laughter till they bloom, till you yourself burst into bloom. That is the work. The only work.” — Clarissa Pinkola Estes

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@dinahhall

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Bugün kapanan kapı için üzülme derttaş

Belki bir gün öyle bir kapı açılacak ki

Öncekilerin kapanmasına şükredeceksin..

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paris, again.

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 Nikolai Astrup (Norway 1880-1928)

 'Spring Mood by Old Cotter’s Farm’,  1918

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tus serez bien, ami

Je reste seule car j’ai peur de ce que je pourrais être à deux

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I like this view through the corridor, as if it’s a frame. At the weekend I went to introduce myself to our upstairs neighbour with some flowers and wine. I had my mask on & I was super nervous but it turns out she is the kindest old lady from Japan. I already know we will get on so well — she says when the pandemic restrictions lift we can come up for a cup of tea. Just after I had said bye and come back down to our flat there was a knock at the door and she had brought down some flowers for us, some absolutely stunning yellow and white tulips. It fills me with such joy when I hear her footsteps above us 🤍

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i'm not much one for believing in personality tests, however, i do like my colour!

here's the test in english! spanish! korean! japanese! and chinese!

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Medusa with the head of Perseus (details) Luciano Garbati.

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James Sant (1820-1916), Courage, Anxiety and Despair: Watching the Battle, 1850, oil on canvas, 121.9 x 152.4 cm. In a private collection.

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@melisscan

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letter to baby bird

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Happy International Women’s Day! 

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