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Estás para todos ¿y quién está para ti?

Misteriosa como mar

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i want friends with whom i can visit art galleries and photography collections, exchange monthly book recommendations, take long city walks during the night, drink cheap wine while listening to vinyl records, browse second-hand bookshops, spend all day in little libraries, sit on balconies and take pictures of the evening sky

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『 Weheartit 』

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Ho'oponopono is a process of letting go of toxic energies within you to allow the impact of Divine thoughts, words, deeds, and actions.

Zero Limits: The Secret Hawaiian System for Wealth, Health, Peace, and More, by Joe Vitale and Ihaleakala He Len (via roxalind)

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The only thing I know is this: I am full of wounds and still standing on my feet.

Nikos Kazantzakis (via wordsnquotes)

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The only thing I know is this: I am full of wounds and still standing on my feet.

Nikos Kazantzakis (via wordsnquotes)

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Chapter zero.

Here’s to the lady who spent countless nights awake to make sure her children stayed asleep while the man crashed in far from sober, the one who left her dreams hidden in a drawer for her children to find them and take them as their own. The lady who soaked pillow sheets with panic tears but never said a word. The lady who sacrificed 7 years of happiness. The lady who would wake up at 5 am to prepare each day’s meal because there was simply too much to do. The lady who drowned in work but still picked her kids up from school. The one who shredded pieces of her heart to provide enough love to anyone that mattered.

Here’s to the underestimated lady who got stepped on countless times and instead of giving up she stood tall through the circumstances. The lady that taught her kids to always be humble and grateful. To the lady who always walked around with integrity.

The lady who amazingly rose and finally got what she deserved. Happiness.

Here’s to the lady who gave birth to all of you. 

Here’s to all the single mothers in this world. 

Specially to mine. 

-A.L

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BOOK OF THE DAY:

This Is How You Lose Her by Junot Díaz

Junot Díaz’s recurring protagonist Yunior, a young Dominican-American man reappears in his series of nine short-stories in This Is How You Lose Her. Díaz puts Yunior through every obstacle love has to offer, from the experience of family love, devestating heartbreak and cheating. Overall infidelity is the reigning theme in This Is How You Lose Her, which Díaz describes as:

“A tale about a young man’s struggle to overcome his cultural training and inner habits in order to create lasting relationships… [By the end of the book,] he finally begins to see the women in his life as fully human. He finally gains, after much suffering, a true human imaginary. Something that for the average guy is very difficult to obtain, considering that most of us are socialized to never imagine women as fully human.”

Described by the New York Times, as “too good to be true” Díaz’s prose is tender, comical, emotive and explicit. Díaz doesn’t find the need to use flowery words to write pretty things. This Is How You Lose Her is a subtle, energetic exploration between gender and romance in relation to his culture as a Latino writer.

This Is How You Lose Her proves that he is one of the most natural writers in modern literature.

Get the book here!

Read excerpts from the book here!

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It's like im running towards people but no one's running towards me.

Me

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Perhaps the fact that I chased a boy who ripped me to shreds says a lot more about me than it did about him.

Michelle K., Lessons Learned (via wordsnquotes)

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I won’t glorify or romanticize heartbreak, for me it was a kind of death and I was forced to keep living.

Warsan Shire (via wordsnquotes)

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If a poem hasn’t ripped apart your soul; you haven’t experienced poetry.

Edgar Allan Poe (via wordsnquotes)

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Don’t take anything personally. Nothing others do is because of you. What others say and do is a projection of their own reality, their own dream. When you are immune to the opinions of others, you won’t be the victim of needless suffering.

Don Miguel Ruiz. The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom. (via wordsnquotes)

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Don't call me baby unless you mean it

Ed sheeran- Divide

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We live in an age where we feel guilt whenever we have to cut someone off but the reality is that some relationships do need to die, some people do need to be unfollowed and defriended. We aren’t meant to be this tethered to the people in our past. The Internet mandates that we don’t burn bridges and keep everyone around like relics but those expectations are unrealistic and unhealthy. Simply put, we don’t need to know what everyone else is up to. We’re allowed to be choosy about who we surround ourselves with online and in real life, even if it might hurt people’s feelings.

Ryan O’Connell, You Don’t Have To Be Friends With Everybody (via wordsnquotes)

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Being with him made my brain quiet. I didn’t have to invent a thing.

Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (via thelovejournals)