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Perfect skin doesn’t matter brand names don’t matter grind culture doesn’t matter all that’s important is having a hobby you love and learning to cook vegetables in tasty ways

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look not to spoil the ending but you’re going to recover and be happy

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This is your daily reminder that you are good enough, you have always been good enough, and you always will be good enough. 

Don’t listen to the lies your disorder tells you. 

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“That’s all you can do in this world, no matter how strong the current beats against you, or how heavy your burden, or how tragic your love story. You keep going.”

— Robyn Schneider, Extraordinary Means

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there isn’t much happening atm but just me watching aesthetic study vlogs all day long. i’ve also managed to accomplish the following:

finished all my pending journal reviews

paid current month’s credit card bill

ordered new bed sheet with floral design

started reading another dostoyevsky story

i plan to save up enough money thru my part-time writing job so i can buy a new gadget that i’ve been eyeing on since i got addicted to watching study vlogs, haha!

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i finished up one project so i now have a stack of library books to return

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have you ever noticed that when you take care of yourself, the universe takes care of the rest? it’s not a coincidence

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sorry to disappoint you, but i’d rather stare out of the window, listen to music and create fake scenarios in my head than do those worthless mortal tasks

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I’m ok. I’m gonna be ok. I’m gonna live a beautiful life and I’ll get to know beautiful people. I will create things of beauty and be surrounded by flowers. And I’ll love myself, and I’ll be soft, I’ll be kind. And I’ll be ok.

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going into new situations (e.g. a new workplace or school) might become a less terrifying idea if you eliminate the generalizations for yourself and instead stay open to the possibilities of who you might find there. like a friend who’s into the same band as you are, and someone who always falls asleep on their desk because their snap stories tell you that they like to watch the stars during the night, and someone who makes stupid dad jokes to cheer others up and someone else who’s from the same neighborhood you’re from or works at your local drugstore. not everyone in this new environment will be as judgmental and ‘normal’ as you’re afraid of. people aren’t scary, they’re just multidimensional, and that’s a beautiful, vibrant thing to discover you’ll grow to be a part of.

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when mary oliver said “so this is the world. i’m not in it. it is beautiful” and “i wanted to know, whoever i was, i was alive for a little while” and “mostly, i want to be kind” and “i want to say all my life i was a bride married to amazement” and “you only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves” and “someday we’ll live in the sky” and “i want to love this world as thought it’s the last chance I’m ever going to get to be alive” and “have you too finally figured out what beauty is for? and have you changed your life?”

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i'm back, and messier better than ever, ft. a giant croissant stuffed with cream and a bunch of old bookshelf finds

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“And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.” - Antoine De Saint-Exupéry, Le Petit Prince 🌒

Today’s office was my favourite Coffee House and did some research about the museum I’m doing my Placement Year for, I couldn’t enjoy myself more! Books, a Soy Latte and a comfortable reading corner ☕️