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“My mission, should I choose to accept it, is to find peace with exactly who and what I am. To take pride in my thoughts, my appearance, my talents, my flaws and to stop this incessant worrying that I can’t be loved as I am.”

— Anaïs Nin

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The Early Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1920–1923

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Your soul knows. It will tell you when it's time to distance yourself from those who no longer align with you mentally, emotionally, physically, or energetically.

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People aren't homes, they never will be. People are rivers, always changing, forever flowing. They will disappear with everything you put inside them.

~ Nikita Gill

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When will you have a little pity for every soft thing that walks through the world, yourself included?

Mary Oliver, from "Pen and Paper and a Breath of Air" in Blue Pastures

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“I can do nothing for you but work on myself. You can do nothing for me but work on yourself.”

— Ram Dass

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Sylvia Plath, from The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

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not to sound like a victorian woman suffering from hysteria but i do think going to the sea would fix me

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Please understand that I get so messed up inside sometimes

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Mary Oliver, “Heavy.” Thirst

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Mary Oliver

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Mary Oliver, from “Marengo.” [ID in alt text]

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The Originals 1.06 ‘Fruit of the Poisoned Tree’

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The Sacrifice (1986) dir. Andrei Tarkovsky

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“don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.”

~Franz Kafka

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I am not well. I could have built the Pyramids with the effort it takes me to cling on to life and reason.

— Franz Kafka, Letters to Felice