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Never disrespect a person that made sure you were okay when nobody else did.

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It's the scent of autumn, oxidation: you can smell it on your skin, that sunburn perfume.

Margaret Atwood, Aflame

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i can't believe it's been almost a year since i saw Taylor in Liverpool. i long to go back, i miss it so much

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Have compassion for yourself!!! I cannot say that enough. You are human. You are imperfect. You’ve been wrong in speech and action. You’ve made mistakes and you will make more! But you are still worthy of empathy, understanding, and love. You deserve this and I understand self compassion can be hard, but it is a practice to work at. We deserve that within ourselves. 

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We really need to retire the phrase “false narrative” because no one knows what they’re talking about. There’s no deception in Taylor’s songs. Everything she wrote about her previous relationship was true when she wrote it — good, bad, and ugly. The fact that she may look back on things with a different perspective in 2023-2025 does not make the old songs “false.” It just makes her a person/artist who has lived, loved, lost, and loved again. It’s called evolution.

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just a girl and her unconditional love for the moon

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Its so easy to be genuine. Who raised yall

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I wish everything was quieter and softer and less often. 

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cultivating your taste is so important. you don’t have to be particularly structured or methodical about it, but you should develop real curiosity about why you like the things you do, how they make you feel, why it matters… to put yourself around things that are considered truly great even if you don’t get it yet. and learn to listen to other people who have cultivated their own taste, not to replicate theirs but to see how they do it and share in their expansive energy… the more you interact with good taste, whatever that means to you, the more depth you carve into your own soul… and if you crave success in some capacity, it has this strange way of making you seem more “real” and significant to others around you, and in a way that is so authentic and natural and pleasurable. it just creates an energy that propels you forward in every way. so next time you worry if you’re being shallow, you’re not, that’s a lie, you’re actually bringing great depth… what you like matters because how you feel matters. a lot. like it’s the most important thing. you know?

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The people whose first instinct is to smile when you make eye contact with them are some of Earth's greatest treasures.

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i think there's lot more beauty in trying than some may think. there is beauty in trying to make others feel understood, in trying to make others feel seen, in trying to make others feel loved. effort means a lot.