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Addiction is a progressive narrowing of the things that bring you pleasure. A good life is a progressive expansion of the things that bring you pleasure. Btw

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“And that was what destroyed you in the end: the longing for something you could never have.”

— Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom

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Missed Time, Ha Jin

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i call my parents and say ‘yeah i can’t do family stuff tonight, i got too much stuff to do for school’ and i e-mail my professor and say ‘i can’t do my assignments tonight, work got crazy’ and i text my boss and say ‘sorry i can’t work late tonight, i gotta some family stuff’ and through this triangulation of deceitful excuses i at last will be free

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anxiety is so weird like why is my mental illness in my stomach

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please be nice to me, i'm in my twenties. do you know what that does to a person

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write that book. publish that blog. apply for that job. dye your hair. cut your bangs. pick up that hobby that you’ve always wanted to try. wear that outfit that you loved but were too afraid to put on in public. life is way too short. be whoever you want to be, and do whatever you want. stop waiting for the right moment, because there will never be one. sometimes you just gotta say fuck it, and do it! live your life the way you want, and don’t ask for anyone’s approval.

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I get jealous really easily but not like an angry vengeful jealous more like a really sad lonely jealous because everybody likes everybody more than they like me and I really really don’t blame them. 

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I think everything in this whole universe is about love and art. And when it's not about love and art then it's about the absence of love and art.

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“I want to open the door, but instead I’m hiding behind it.”

— Nia Lewis - “Closed” (Get Lit 2016)

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“It’s just this strange thing I do where I allow myself to briefly fall in love with another human being that I see on a train, or the sidewalk, or in a warm café.”

— Chelsea Fagan

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Jasmin Lee Cori, The Emotionally Absent Mother: How to Recognize and Heal the Invisible Effects of Childhood Emotional Neglect

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Brené Brown, Daring Greatly

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- Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon (1977)

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Amir Khusrow The Legend

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“How beautiful to find a heart that loves you, without asking you for anything, but to be okay.”

— Khalil Gibran