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paper-wounds

Fortesa Latifi, from The Truth About Grief.

petaltexturedskies

Virginia Woolf, in a diary entry written c. July 1935, from Selected Diaries

luthienne

Jeanette Winterson, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

stuckinapril

when James Baldwin said I can’t be a pessimist because I’m alive

soracities

Eavan Boland, “A Woman Painted on a Leaf”

[Text ID: “I want a poem I can grow old in. I want a poem I can die in.”]

girlbloke

Don’t like myself very much but I love life and I’m my only option so we have an uneasy truce

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holy quaternity

wholeheartedsuggestions

here’s to all the things you survived quietly and privately this year

wholeheartedsuggestions

here’s to all the things you survived loudly, to the dead horses you beat, to the shit that makes you scream

ffondazione

BARBARA KRUGER

lamignonette

soft-likethesunset

i'm not the best at singing. but i'm gonna sing anyway dude. i'm not the best at painting. but i'm still going to paint. my dancing will never see a stage. but it's perfect for early mornings in my bedroom and late nights with people i love. so what does this mean? it means that people are designed to do. not to be the best. just to do. if you're doing what you enjoy, then you don't have to be the best. you just have to enjoy it. you have to live.

tordenvejr

art will save you, being unreasonably passionate about something niche will save you, letting past sources of joy show you the way back to yourself will save you, earnestness over composure will save you, the natural world will save you, caring for something bigger than yourself will save you, daring to be seen will save you, kindness not as a whim but a principle will save you, appreciation as a practice will save you, daring to try something new will save you, grounding will save you, love will save you, one good nights sleep will save you