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it’s feels better actually to confront it and look the anxiety dead in the eye than to skirt around or avoid it numb it
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— Mary Oliver, Upstream
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one of the most important things, perhaps the most important thing I have learned in my life is that nice people can fuck each other up in monstrous ways. people can be bone deep kind and loving and self reflective and still lash out under pressure. people can be earnestly neighbourly and charitable and hospitable and generous and still find themselves in situations where they become selfish. people can be well meaning and easygoing and gregarious and hold deep seated opinions that turn them into vicious little bullies under the right conditions. nobody is just one thing, and nobody stays one way. every person is a kaleidoscope and they will surprise you. you will surprise yourself. it's not a warning and it's not a judgement and it's not an excuse, and it's certainly not a reason to stop trying or to stop trusting. it is just a fact.
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not now, im noticing the pattern
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“But many of us seek community solely to escape the fear of being alone. Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape.”
— bell hooks, from All About Love: New Visions (William Morrow, 1999)
allá en tu mar
ya yo no me mojo
y a veces te extraño mucho, pero lo que extraño nunca existió
creo que nunca fuiste lo que yo pensaba
fuiste el gran actor..
no me voy a ir a ensuciarme
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— James Baldwin, They Can’t Turn Back
david whyte excerpt via the marginalian and honestly………….
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This really is my life and i will make it beautiful
this really is your life and you will make it beautiful
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— Banana Yoshimoto, “Kitchen”
James Merrill, from a letter to his mother, August 8, 1952.
funny how i was so sad a month ago but being left and rejected by the guy i dated for three months was actually the best thing that ever happened to me. it set me FREE. it set me free from begging for love, from making romantic love the core focus of my life. i am free to be me now, to follow my dreams relentlessly. love will come when it comes, but there is so much to do in the meantime. i am the sun
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“You’re going to die soon enough anyway; even if it’s a hundred years from now, that’s still the blink of a cosmic eye. In the meantime, live like a scientist—even a controversial one with only an ally or two in all the world—and treat life as a grand experiment, blood, sweat, tears and all. Bear in mind that there’s no such thing as a failed experiment—only data.”
— Jesse Bering | Being Suicidal: What It Feels Like to Want to Kill Yourself (via metahemeralisrn)