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The haunting ancient Celtic carnyx being played for an audience. This is the sound Roman soldiers would have heard their Celtic enemies make.

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Mary Oliver, from Long Life: Essays And Other Writings originally published in 2004

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this post is for you. yes, you! you are so deserving of a good, happy, content life. you are so strong and resilient, and i am proud of you. you will make it through all this hardship and come out the other side doing better than ever.

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you must love life even when you have no stomach for it

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I have been working on this comic “Undergrowth” for the past month and I’m so happy to finally be able to share it with you!! This is the reason I haven’t been posting as much art on tumblr. I was very inspired by people who depict personal growth as a potted plant, and I wanted to do my own take on that idea: I think of it more as an entire forest or ecosystem within a person.

I hope reading this will inspire you to keep improving as a person even though it’s a process that is so difficult and convoluted.

[commission] [ko-fi] [Please do not repost my work!]

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whats it like to lock your fingers with someone you love

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happiness and sorrow live within the same heart. embrace both as they come.

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Babe, uncomfortable feelings are a part of life. They will come, as they have right now. They will go, as they always have. Then they’ll come back again, but they’ll also go again. There is no ‘peak existence’ that doesn’t include emotional discomfort. So, make some space for it, watch your little show, eat a little treat— a little enjoyment can co-exist with your discomfort. Try again tomorrow.

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there are lives that you’ve touched; people who burn brighter simply because of the way that you’ve graced them—and it’s not always obvious; more often than not, the imprint is quiet. you are carried nonetheless.

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be kind to all animals ♡ — (source)

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It’s okay if you don’t have the answer! When you aren’t sure what to say, listen instead. You will learn and grow.

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are u ever sick w longing. and i don't just mean romantic longing. i mean longing for a place you barely get to see, longing for friends you no longer have, longing for feelings you might have left behind in your childhood, longing for creativity, longing for a rich and more expansive life, longing for less inhibition. longing for more passion. longing for ur life to be so incandescent w something it thaws all the frost in ur bones. are u ever so consumed w it it rends ur heart in two. do u understand me

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“But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil