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Golden Gate Girls

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“To live content with small means. To seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion. To be worthy not respectable, and wealthy not rich. To listen to stars and birds and babes and sages with an open heart. To study hard, think quietly, act frankly, talk gently, await occasions. Never hurry. In a word, to let the spiritual, the unbidden and the unconscious rise up through the common. This is my symphony.”

— William Henry Channing, My Symphony

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“We will never be the same again. But here’s a little secret for you—no one is ever the same thing again after anything. You are never the same twice, and much of your unhappiness comes from trying to pretend that you are. Accept that you are different each day, and do so joyfully, recognizing it for the gift it is. Work within the desires and goals of the person you are currently, until you aren’t that person anymore, and everything changes once again.”

— (Cecil, Welcome to Night Vale, Episode 75) That is legitimately some of the most helpful advice I’ve ever heard. (via sleuths)

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My favorite affirmation: “my authentic self has no competition.”

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Moths 

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“It’s just that I belong in the quietest quiet, that’s what’s right for me.”

— Franz Kafka, in a letter to Milena Jesenská, from Letters to Milena

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Nymphs (Νυμφη meaning ‘Girl of Marriageable Age’) were female spirits of the natural world and minor goddesses of the forests, rivers, springs, meadows, mountains and seas in Greek mythology. They were the crafters of nature's wild beauty, from the growing of trees, flowers and shrubs, to the nurture of wild animals and birds, and the formation of grottos, springs, brooks and wetlands. Nymphs were also companions of the gods. Dionysos (god of festivities) had his wild-eyed Maenads and Bacchae. Artemis (goddess of the hunt) was accompanied by a band of huntress nymphs, Hecate (goddess of magic) by the dark Lampades of the underworld, Poseidon (god of the sea) by the Nereides, and the goddesses of Olympus by a bevy of nymph handmaidens.

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me: staying up all night with fairy wings on my back

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by hollychippindale

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im a simple girl i want auroras and sad prose i want to watch wisteria grow right over my bare feet cause i haven't moved in years and i want you right here

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