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gracefully ungraceful 🥀🚬

[asitwasmemes]

main: @asitwasphotography

https://linktr.ee/asitwasphotography

[letterful]

[theambitiouswoman]

When you settle for less, you never actually get what you settled for. You get even less. Every time you accept something beneath your standards whether it’s a relationship, a job, or how someone treats you, you’re not just compromising the situation… you’re compromising yourself. You’re telling your mind, “This is fine. This is all I get.” And little by little you start living down to that. It chips away at your confidence, your joy, your spark. It makes you question things you never questioned before

You shine when you choose what aligns with your worth. You rise when you acknowledge to yourself that you are not that person anymore. That you know you’re worthy of more. Better. The moment you raise your standards, life shifts to match you. Better people show up. Better opportunities show up. You show up differently. So please don’t shrink yourself just to keep something small. Don’t trade your peace for what feels familiar. Don’t accept the bare minimum when your whole soul is built for more. You deserve a life that fits you not a life you have to fold yourself into. The second you stop settling, everything gets brighter

[after-witch]

No mercy at all in that face, but who needed mercy when someone looked at you like that, like he understood every thought that passed through your mind? Like he would know every nuance of your soul before he devoured it?

--Katherine Arden, The Warm Hands of Ghosts

[geryone]

Some Are Always Hungry, Jihyun Yun

[philosophybits]

“Self-interest speaks all kinds of languages and plays all kinds of parts – even that of disinterestedness.”

— François de La Rochefoucauld, Moral Reflections

[danskjavlarna]

Source details and larger version.

Newsworthy: a collection of weird headlines and book titles.

[achillesinhighheels]

No bare minimum I want the whole universe

[svdaily]

Bring me the Milky Way on a platter

[vintagenews]

Source and details.

[dksw0rld]

Anything I need, big or small, the universe provides for me. Sometimes I don’t even have to ask. Why would I worry about anything? I’m divinely protected and taken care of!

[grlbts]

"The Girl on the Couch" (1930) by Chinese painter Pang Xunqin

[thatsbelievable]

[say-ouch]

from The Fran Lebowitz Reader

[heaveninawildflower]

Passiflora Quadrangularis (1778) by Mary Delany (1700-1788).

Collage of coloured papers, with bodycolour and watercolour, on black ink background (1776).

© The Trustees of the British Museum.

Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license.

[zzzilan]

[weltenwellen]

E. Hughes, from "My Mother at Twenty-One"

[heartsnmagic]