I will face the world! Fearless, Proud, and Strong!

vincit qui se vincit.

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Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

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Virginia Woolf, from a letter to Margaret Llewyn Davis, featured in The Selected Letters of Virginia Woolf

[coyoteprince]

Its National Coyote Day! I look to them as my guiding animal, a true spirit of resilience, resistance, and growth. Every day I am grateful to embody and honor them.

Need some Coyote Courage? Both availiable as medium and large prints here.

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Rainer Maria Rilke, from “XXI" in Sonnets to Orpheus

[northirish]

Stop doing it scared and start doing it scary. Invoke sheer eye-clawing terror into all those who have ever wronged you

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[ceruleanheaven]

being on the internet for more than three minutes

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Anaïs Nin, Fire: From "A Journal of Love" The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1934-1937

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why would you do this to me

[rionsanura]

don't worry, they do this to him also

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Franz Kafka, from a letter to Felice Bauer written in 1913, featured in Letters To Felice

[havingapoemwithyou]

5 months by Anis Mojgani

[offwegointothewildblueyonder]

when a child goes to Build-A-Bear and constructs a teddy from the parts available no one bats an eye, but when I, Victor Frankenstein,

[girlfictions]

Ada Limón, from Lies About Sea Creatures