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yesss im always saying this like sure i can give you logical advice but at the end of the day you can just do what you want to do until youre sick of it. cant move on cant switch gears til youre sick of it so go ahead and indulge

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“Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside while still alive. Never surrender.”

— Tupac Shakur

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Flower Lamps

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“The bravest thing you can ever do, is to stay kind and soft even when the world has been cruel to you.”

— Nikita Gill

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eat delicious things in every sense. savor novels that unravel slowly, like decadent meals for the mind. let sunlight kiss ur skin, bask in its warmth like an endless summer. hold close the people who make you feel alive, kiss them tenderly, love them fiercely. laugh at bad jokes, the kind that make you roll ur eyes but secretly smile. plant basil on your windowsill, water it with care, breathe in its fragrance as you stir it into your meals. be unafraid to indulge in beauty, to notice it everywhere and to consume it greedily. there is no virtue in starving yourself of joy, no wisdom in rationing delight.

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You are not disgusting. You are not gross. You're not inherently dirty, unclean or contaminated. Even if you're physically unclean right now, that does not dimish your worth or respectability as a human being.

Your body is not "wrong" or "broken", if it functions differently, or on a different level compared to other people. Each body is unique. Even if your body functions in ways that would be considered flawed or embarrassing by others, it does not and should not diminish your worth and respectability.

You are lovable. You are enough. Even if you're too tired, or unable to upkeep yourself all the time. Even if your needs are considered an inconvenience by other people. You deserve to have your needs met. It's not a question of if.

Regardless of your physical or mental state, you are not disgusting, revolting, shameful or gross. You are normal, acceptable, and lovable. You are human.

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“No-one will love you exactly the way you want them to. You just have to let them do their best.”

— Unknown

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Uneasy

Today I wear shoes that hurt me

because I think I’ll look better that way.

It won’t look better later when I’m limping,

strain written across my face.

& today at the meeting I was so nervous

to open my mouth but then I couldn’t shut it.

Every word a bell I can’t unring. Every face

less friendly.

Yesterday I was joy.

Unusually good things happened to me.

I thought: is this it? Is this healthiness?

I chopped vegetables and did laundry

and made mistakes and fixed them.

But holding onto that feeling was like trying to

hold water in my hands. And today I’m doubly

fragile. I feel myself sinking and sinking and I

don’t know why. I turn my eyes out to those

around me expecting them to answer.

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Spill

So

spill

open.

Stretch

your arms

wide enough

to let the love in.

Even when you think

it’s not what you deserve.

I will be waiting for you at the

place where the light touches the

grass so tenderly that for a moment

you will forget you are determined

to be unkind to yourself.

I will meet you there again and again until the

forgetting becomes a habit. Until you no longer

require distraction to be at peace with yourself.

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“But love...it's only an illusion. A story one makes up in one's mind about another person. And one knows all the time it isn't true”. 

-Virginia Woolf

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“Stay close to anything that makes you glad you are alive.”

— Unknown