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You must know yourself outside of work outside of friends and outside of your romantic relationship you must be able to sit with yourself

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i’ll say it a hundred times because some of you need to hear it a hundred times but the trick to liking yourself again is learning new skills and hobbies or returning to ones you had. it makes you so confident learning new shit all the time.

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thank you anais nin

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oh ok

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theres nothing "common" about the loon. to me.

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Tove Jansson - Sleeping in the Roots 1930

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erica jong

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― Hiromi Kawakami, The Briefcase

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An Encounter with Simone Weil 

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Glen Coe, Black Rock Cottage. Photo - Gary Hook

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Joy Sullivan, from Instructions for Traveling West: Poems; “Howl”

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— MARIA PAWLIKOWSKA-JASNORZEWSKA, trans. Barbara Bogoczek & Tony Howard. 

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on trees

J. R. R. Tolkien ("The Fellowship of the Ring"), Parte de todo (src), Faiz Ahmed Faiz/tr. Naomi Lazard ("When Autumn Came"), Marina Tsvetaeva, a photo by me (src), Margaret Atwood ("War Photo 2"), photo (src), Tony Hoagland (“Peaceful Transition”), Slope Point, New Zealand (src), Tara Bray ("Listen"), Max Dupain ("Banksias by the Sea"), Mary Oliver ("When I am Among the Trees"), source unknown, Ted Kooser ("Trees")

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and is your shame helpful? is it inspiring goodness and change? or is it keeping you frozen in time unable to move on and be everything you have expanded to be?