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“I get it now. It’s hard to let someone find you in all the dark and twisty places inside, but eventually, you have to hope that they do, because that’s the beginning of everything.”

— Julia Walton, Words on Bathroom Walls

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“I don’t feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am. The main interest in life and work is to become someone else that you were not in the beginning.”

— Michel Foucault

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“I am that clumsy human, always loving, loving, loving. And loving. And never leaving.”

— Frida Kahlo, The Diary Of Frida Kahlo: An Intimate Self-Portrait (via perrfectly)

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“No satisfaction based upon self-deception is solid, and, however unpleasant the truth may be, it is better to face it once for all, to get used to it, and to proceed to build your life in accordance with it.”

— Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness

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“You will never be completely at home again because part of your heart will always be elsewhere. That is the price you pay for the richness of loving and knowing people in more than one place.”

— Miriam Adeney

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And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.

— Haruki Murakami

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We got wine drunk and ran home from that restaurant in the rain

I hope you still remember that and it makes you feel the same

And I wonder if you’ve ever had a better first date.

Do you still make the recipes we invented or listen to that playlist or drink that apple wine

Did you keep that tie dye shirt because I still have mine.

Did you tell people our secrets,

Who else has seen the inside pocket of your jacket, those tickets in your car

I know it’s been so long since then and the thought of me might make you mad

But you have to admit that as far as stupid careless love goes,

no one did it better than us.

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“I firmly believe in small gestures: pay for their coffee, hold the door for strangers, over tip, smile or try to be kind even when you don’t feel like it, pay compliments, chase the kid’s runaway ball down the sidewalk and throw it back to him, try to be larger than you are— particularly when it’s difficult. People do notice, people appreciate. I appreciate it when it’s done to (for) me. Small gestures can be an effort, or actually go against our grain (“I’m not a big one for paying compliments…”), but the irony is that almost every time you make them, you feel better about yourself.”

— Jonathan Carroll

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It’s that time again guys

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A WHITE WASHED HOLIDAY HOME ON NISYROS, GREECE

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writing as therapy. writing as healing. writing as discovery. writing as self-love. writing as making sense of the dark. writing as rebirth. 

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source: vianca soleil