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I’ll keep you from afar Watch you from a distance I kinda like the idea Of not having you But never losing you as well

(via gonebeyondrepair)

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because when everybody starts hovering over me, I get cross, then sad, and finally end up turning my heart inside out, the bad part on the outside and the good part on the inside, and keep trying to find a way to become what I'd like to be and what I could be if ... if only there were no other people in the world.

Anne M Frank

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“Every morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most.”

- Buddha (via jong-in-you)

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Dokkōdō

Precepts

Accept everything just the way it is.

Do not seek pleasure for its own sake.

Do not, under any circumstances, depend on a partial feeling.

Think lightly of yourself and deeply of the world.

Be detached from desire your whole life.

Do not regret what you have done.

Never be jealous.

Never let yourself be saddened by a separation.

Resentment and complaint are appropriate neither for oneself nor others.

Do not let yourself be guided by the feeling of lust or love.

In all things, have no preferences.

Be indifferent to where you live.

Do not pursue the taste of good food.

Do not hold on to possessions you no longer need.

Do not act following customary beliefs.

Do not collect weapons or practice with weapons beyond what is useful.

Do not fear death.

Do not seek to possess either goods or fiefs for your old age.

Respect Buddha and the gods without counting on their help.

You may abandon your own body but you must preserve your honor.

Never stray from the way.

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Paramour

I loved you beneath black skies, through out and before the sun rises, in the east. I loved you behind tree trunks, cattails, overgrown woody canopies.

Then, when darkness distracts the stars and trees stood quiet not to wake the sleeping birds. There, where the overgrown grasses tell no tales outside the river and the climbing vines can choke my love in secret.

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"It Should Have Been Me" - Ray Charles

The musical genius himself at the Apollo Theater in Harlem in 1990

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When the going gets tough, the tough go drinking.

Bret Easton Ellis, The Rules of Attraction

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No one ever likes the right person.

Bret Easton Ellis, The Rules of Attraction

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Got you. You're mine now. For the rest of the day, week, month, year, life. Have you guessed who I am? Sometimes I think you have. Sometimes when you're standing in a crowd I feel those sultry, dark eyes of yours stop on me. Are you too afraid to come up to me and let me know how you feel? I want to moan and writhe with you and I want to go up to you and kiss your mouth and pull you to me and say "I love you I love you I love you" while stripping. I want you so bad it stings. I want to kill the ugly girls that you're always with. Do you really like those boring, naive, coy, calculating girls or is it just for sex? The seeds of love have taken hold, and if we won't burn together, I'll burn alone.

Bret Easton Ellis, The Rules of Attraction

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When you begin to touch your heart or let your heart be touched, you begin to discover that it’s bottomless, that it doesn’t have any resolution, that this heart is huge, vast, and limitless. You begin to discover how much warmth and gentleness is there, as well as how much space.

Pema Chödrön