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[nikasholistic]

Perceive yourself as a successful person. Perceive yourself as a lovable person. Perceive yourself as the person who’s worthy of all the best in life.

[empress-azrae1]

[cheshmenoor]

[soundcarvings]

for me personally, self-respect is self governance. it's like an internal throne. Nobody above me, nobody directing me, nobody defining my path. The validation that I receive is genuinely irrelevant because the reference point is internal. it's this sense of being self authored. The moment someone else's authority supersedes my own internal authority my self-respect has always felt violated, regardless of whether that authority comes from a crowd or a single person.

But this has morphed a lot as I have aged and I find less of a need to rebel. I dont need to rebel because again I am internally self governed, and in that inner knowing I can play any role and do anything so long as I remain in the space of inner respect for myself. I think this is why I also feel detached from myself in many ways, detachment as synonymous with not so self focused as I age. because I dont need self focus or self love and whatever other bullshit terms we say because I have self respect.

and if your self respect requires a witness then... it isnt really self respect now is it?

[fentyfendi-deactivated20220829]

People will act like you’re hard to deal with because your’re not easy to fool.

[vibrantessence]

[sentimentalbeing2001]

The lily in the valley will wither. The flowers in the forest will decay. But this friendship will last forever, when all other things fade away.

March 4, 1885.

From a beautiful notebook I bought in the flea

[gothluv]

It had to happen for growth purposes

[saintfelina]

Vintage Dolce&Gabbana leopard bustier Top

[mymotorcyclediaries]

Love women who love the brine of life...Pickles, Olives, pickled jalapeños, sun-dried tomatoes, pickled ginger, pepperoncini, kimchi, pickled red onions

[letsbelonelytogetherr]

— unknown (via letsbelonelytogetherr)

[tierras]

genie

[sandyminn]

I love being educated. I love learning & finding new things that intrigue me. I love knowing my brain is inevitably growing.

[dandonas-blog]

[asteriavinifera]

Do you wanna go watch the sunlight pierce the leaves of the forest with me?

[luthienne]

“I beg you to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don’t search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters To A Young Poet (via fables-of-the-reconstruction)

[cheiirosa]