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Every decision you make should be a reflection of how much you love yourself.

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Marguerite Duras, from The Easy Life

Text ID: I always return to myself, always more faithfully.

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Traditional femininity is empowering. There is strength in being soft, beauty in being kind, and peace in being soft spoken and humble.

Feminine women add to the world by building up a sense of community and fostering safe and comfortable homes in those communities.

It’s not humiliating to be a traditionally feminine woman.

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Jennifer Huang, from Return Flight; “Procedure”

[Text ID: “I am not accustomed to / this gentle; / I crush it.”]

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Unmute Gaza Calls for Communities Worldwide to Uplift the Voices of Palestinian Photojournalists

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the beauty of being an authentic, good-hearted person is that your presence is always felt + your absence will always be missed. that is why you don’t have to retaliate when someone wrongs you. they’ll feel it one way or another.

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Malli Botanicals

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“Why is self-discipline worth possessing? Because those who possess it have the ability to determine what they do with their life. Those who lack self-discipline will have the path they take through life determined by someone or something else.”

— William Irvine, A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy

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محمود درويش و نزار قباني وجهًا لوجه في بغداد بعدسة شربل داغر.

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Wild horses crossing a river in Iran Photo: Eydi Heydari

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Ocean Vuong, from “Torso of Air”, Night Sky with Exit Wounds

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The kpinga was a throwing knife (shongo) used in the Congo and South Sudan in the 19th Century. Though it looks strange, the fact it has such a strange asymmetry is so that that when thrown, it is weighted around a central axis, causing it to spin in mid-air to make it travel farther. 

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The girl here is screaming: Where are you taking me? Are you taking me to the cemetery?

But the man tells her: you're alive and you are beautiful, you're alive.

This breaks my heart. She was pulled out from the rubble and immediately thought she was dead. The sheer terror in her words. Do something to stop this genocide.

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The girl here is screaming: Where are you taking me? Are you taking me to the cemetery?

But the man tells her: you're alive and you are beautiful, you're alive.

This breaks my heart. She was pulled out from the rubble and immediately thought she was dead. The sheer terror in her words. Do something to stop this genocide.