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blackinkmess · 7 months
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“It’s okay to change your yes to a no. Yeses aren’t permanent. They’re something we choose again and again, each and every day. Something we have the right to recall and reconsider as soon as saying yes no longer feels conducive to our wellbeing and happiness. It doesn’t matter whether you said yes to a job, a date, a relationship, sex, a favor to a friend, a social endeavor, or a vow of silence — you don’t ever have to commit to something that forces you to compromise who you are and what feels right; especially if it’s something you agreed to under pressure, intimidation, or force. Changing your yes to a no might make people angry. It might hurt their feelings, cause them to see you as a flake, and result in lost connections. But if saying no means staying true to yourself, honoring your feelings, and making self-care a priority, it’s worth it. You are worth it. Don’t let anyone convince you otherwise.”
— Daniell Koepke
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blackinkmess · 9 months
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“Do you think the universe fights for souls to be together? Some things are too strange and strong to be coincidences.”
— Emery Allen
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blackinkmess · 10 months
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“Forget all the reasons why it wont work and believe the one reason why it will.”
— Unknown
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blackinkmess · 10 months
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And if there’s something that I’ve learned this year, it’s this: When you truly love something, you choose it over anything else. No matter what the world will say to make you look the other way you choose it and you choose it ferociously. And then you see where life will take you from there.
Juansen Dizon
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blackinkmess · 10 months
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Being solitary is being alone well: being alone luxuriously immersed in doings of your own choice, aware of the fullness of your own presence rather than of the absence of others. Because solitude is an achievement.
– Alice Koller
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blackinkmess · 10 months
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“One day it just clicks… You realise what is important and what isn’t, you learn to care less about what other people think of you and care more about what you think of yourself. You realise how far you have come and you remember thinking that things were such a mess they’d never recover and then you smile. You smile because you’re truly proud of the person you have fought to become.”
— Unknown
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blackinkmess · 10 months
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“Going after a dream has a price. It may mean abandoning our habits, it may make us go through hardships, or it may lead us to disappointment. But however costly it may be, it is never as high as the price paid by people who didn’t live.”
— Paul Coelho
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blackinkmess · 10 months
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A long time ago I learned not to explain things to people. It misleads them into thinking they’re entitled to know everything I do.
Lisa Kleypas
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blackinkmess · 10 months
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I think we love who we love and there’s not a damn thing that can be done about it.
Susan Donovan
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blackinkmess · 11 months
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“Another morning comes. It always does. Time always moves at the same rate, only feelings have different speeds. Every day can mark a whole lifetime or a single heartbeat, depending on who you spend it with.”
— Fredrik Backman, Beartown
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blackinkmess · 11 months
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“Free yourself from the illusion of good and bad days. Labeling time makes us nostalgic of the past and demanding of the future. There is only here and now. Let it be.”
— Ram Dass
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blackinkmess · 11 months
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blackinkmess · 11 months
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“Love doesn’t always mean fireworks. Sometimes love is a slow burn that keeps you warm, and sometimes it’s a bonfire that can’t be contained.”
— Megan Hart, All the Secrets We Keep
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blackinkmess · 11 months
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“Finding someone you can really connect with is like winning the lottery — It happens basically never, but if it does, you really shouldn’t blow it.”
— Jessica Verdi
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blackinkmess · 11 months
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NaPoWriMo 2023 - Day 30
I remember you in quiet moments and the memory fills me with peace. I remember you in the evenings as I wind down and sip a cup of tea. I remember what you saw in me how you nurtured my desires, you always understood that little girl filled with fire. It doesn’t matter how long you’ve been gone, I remember you and your spirit lives on.
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blackinkmess · 11 months
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NaPoWriMo 2023 - Day 29
If I were a blank canvas a stranger to your touch where would you begin? Where would your strokes land, what colors would you choose to paint me? I close my eyes, feel your hands do their work, I flow with the rhythm of your creation. You illuminate every part of me as you see me in a new light, and when you are finished, you sit back and marvel at the sight.
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blackinkmess · 11 months
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NaPoWriMo 2023 - Day 28
This will be a defining year, the one that we’ll always remember. Year ten will be the beginning or the end. We look forward we look back  we hold on tight wondering if it’s time to run or to fight. But it’s here in this moment that we feel it, it’s here and now where all will be found. We have no control, try as we might. Love always unfolds in its own time.  
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