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You bring your naked love and defiant courage and salty grace to bear as much as you can, with all the attentiveness and humor you can muster. This life is after all a miracle and we ought to pay fierce attention every moment, as much as possible.
Brian Doyle, “The Final Frontier,” One Long River of Song (2019)
I am not looking to escape my darkness, I'm learning to love myself there.
Rune Lazuli
From Trista Mateer’s Girl, Isolated
Teach me to be tenaciously and cautiously courageous instead of being afraid.
Paramhansa Yogananda, Metaphysical Meditations
...I have always been drawn towards the hidden and the secret.
Karl Ove Knausgaard, trans. Ingvild Burkey, Autumn
Trying to be good was boring, frustrating, and at time actively hurtful to my own well-being.
Mikki Kendall, Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot
All I want to do is disappear deeply into my own thing and you can decide whether or not to join...
Jenny Slate, Little Weirds
You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.
Mary Oliver, "Wild Geese"
