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Water Lilies, The Clouds, 1903 Claude Monet Water Lilies by Claude Monet

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Julia Davila-Lampe

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I wasn’t going to write a new one this year. But… Be kind to yourself in the year ahead. Remember to forgive yourself, and to forgive others. It’s too easy to be outraged these days, so much harder to change things, to reach out, to understand. Try to make your time matter: minutes and hours and days and weeks can blow away like dead leaves, with nothing to show but time you spent not quite ever doing things, or time you spent waiting to begin. Meet new people and talk to them. Make new things and show them to people who might enjoy them. Hug too much. Smile too much. And, when you can, love.

http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2014/12/new-years-wishes-and-gifts.html (via neil-gaiman)

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ARIES,  you don’t have to believe in love to believe in yourself. love died for me in the chlorinated conscious of a swimming pool, but i’m still here. you can be too. TAURUS, tell me how the sun tastes like because you look at me the same way. you don’t even know it, but you’re my warm memory this winter.  GEMINI, go on picnics and laugh in the bathroom stalls because this will never happen again. you are my every other sentence. CANCER, you are so unbelievably incredible. it’s been years, but there are some things not even heaven or hell could wash away when they came and brought the apocalypse to our front door step. i am so happy to have survived with you. LEO, you are the hardest thing to live without, and how glad i am to have what i do. i hope the trees are as beautiful as you wanted them to be, and that fall holds your hand when i can’t. VIRGO, missing you is second nature, first being loving you senseless. you work hard, but please don’t forget to take care of yourself. and i’m here. i’m here, i’m here, i’m here. for you, always. LIBRA, it’ll be okay if you close your eyes sometimes, the world will still spin when you wake up. rest easy, it’s your month after all. SCORPIO, you are the strongest vein i’ve ever known. write what you can and feel what you do, create regardless of your temperament. it’ll be good, i promise. SAGITTARIUS, harvest the ebullience in your fingertips and make the most of what you can. it was never meant to be easy, just enough. CAPRICORN, find your own constellation and remind yourself of your own brilliance. you still have it, i cross my heart and believe in you. AQUARIUS, bitterness is purple like the spit in your bathroom sink, so flush it down the drain with your eyes wide open. when your body feels like it’s falling apart, grab the super glue and keep on going. this is not the end, baby, it’s just the very start of something spectacular. see this through, i’m begging you. PISCES, you are the reason why i can stand on a broken back and smile at the same time. you are moon stars, lipstick on glitter wrists, and my honest comrade. do what you need to do, and most importantly, get it done. i am so proud of us.

OCTOBER MESSAGES FOR THE SIGNS, x.v (via xverses)

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Gloomy fall Saturday at home

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Qi Zai - the brown panda - at the Shaanxi Wildlife Research Center in China.

© iPanda.

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I really can’t picture anyone having a crush on me - like, the very idea makes me want to laugh because it’s so absurd. I can’t picture someone constantly thinking about me or getting flustered when I smile or someone wanting to shower me with affection. Someone who anxiously waits until I text them and then smile when I do or someone who gets nervous when we are in touch because they don’t want to fuck up. Why on earth would someone do that because of me.

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Lying in his bed in silence, the grad student has no distractions that can drown out the soft murmurs of self-doubt swirling in his head.

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It is love alone that leads to right action. What brings order in the world is to love and let love do what it will.

Krishnamurti (via thecalminside)

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[drawing of a blue elephant saying “You can finish your dissertation! You got this!” in a brown speech bubble.] requested by reparative

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Hallstatt, Austria

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Me: It’s my day off, and i’m going to do everything I can’t usually do because work takes over everything

Me 2 seconds later: