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RIP tumblr. It’s been real.

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“All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

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More valuable than anything in the world is to restrain yourself from a bad deed when passion seizes you.

Tolstoy

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Focus on a toxic-free lifestyle. Know what you want and cut off what you dont. Stay true to your intentions. Know your worth.

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“love your dirty corners, your stalk-like legs and barrel hips, love all the no and the no and the no that brought you right here, to this moment and love the yes. The yes: the breath that found its way to you, built a home in your blood cells, changed itself to better suit you and for it, tonight, you say: I was made to breathe and move and give, which is to say love. Love. I was made to love.”

— Sierra DeMulder, from “Tonight in Yoga”

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If things start happening, don’t worry. Don’t stew. Just go right along. You’ll start happening too.

Dr. Seuss

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Perhaps the problem is not the intensity of your love, but the quality of the people you are loving.

Warsan Shire  (via wordsnquotes)

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“The more you need people to agree with you, the less open you are to what they think, feel, and believe. You cannot share with them because you are trying to change them, and they cannot share with you because you are not listening.”

— Gary Zukav (via wordsnquotes)

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“Empathy isn’t just listening, it’s asking the questions whose answers need to be listened to. Empathy requires inquiry as much as imagination. Empathy requires knowing you know nothing. Empathy means acknowledging a horizon of context that extends perpetually beyond what you can see.”

— Leslie Jamison, The Empathy Exams: Essays (via mishproductions)

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We're all born naked, and the rest is drag.

RuPaul (x)

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It’s almost as if nobody wants to admit that they might not be prepared to do the work it takes to love somebody. And it can be laborious. To be intimate with someone who is flawed (which is the standard) requires us to expose our own flaws. We don’t talk about the heavy responsibility of that. We don’t talk about how we’re too lazy or too cowardly sometimes. We instead accuse love of being elusive. It isn’t. It is omnipresent. It asks us to be better people. And sometimes we flat out refuse.

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Steven Greenberg, “Wrestling with God and Men” - Author’s conversation with Rabbi Eliashiv in Jerusalem

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I did it out of love. You don’t owe me anything.

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“All relationships have one law: never make the one you love feel alone, especially when you are there.”

— Unknown

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Every social struggle I’ve been through has been a mental battlefield — a battlefield where I’ve learned how to get inside people’s heads and “see” how they think. Shyness, it seems, has an incredible upside: it teaches us to empathize.

David Foster Wallace on the Power of Introversion by Charles Chu