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Lakshmi Menon wearing Valentino and photographed by Ethan James Green for WSJ Magazine, September 2018

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She did not need much, wanted very little. A kind word, sincerity, fresh air, clean water, a garden, kisses, books to read, sheltering arms, a cozy bed, and to love and be loved in return.

Starra Neely Blade (via themotivationjournals)

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Each time we don’t say what we want to say we’re dying. Make a list of how many times you died this week.

Yoko Ono  (via le-dilemme)

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Lang Leav, “Three Questions”

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Silas House, A Parchment of Leaves

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Once you’ve accepted your flaws, no one can use them against you.

— Tyrion Lannister (via guy)

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You’re in bed and you’re hearing your parents talk. You’re just hearing the lovely lilt of it. It’s this beautiful music, and you want to be a part of it, and it doesn’t matter that you don’t understand. And that mystery of not knowing what they’re saying is a wonderful mystery. And you’ll never know what they’re saying. Even if you knew the words, you still wouldn’t know what they were saying. I remember that, I remember listening to just the sounds of language and thinking it was so beautiful, or more the intonations, the ups and downs. The contours. Which has an interesting connection with T.S. Eliot, when he said, about The Wasteland, that it doesn’t matter if you don’t know the languages that are in it, you just let it wash over you. That’s an interesting bumping up against that childhood experience, overhearing just the contours. How comforting it is.

 Dorianne Laux, from Mattress Talk (via violentwavesofemotion)

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Be with someone who takes the time to kiss you. Someone who stops what they’re doing to show you they appreciate and love you. Sometimes life gets a little hectic and it’s important to have someone who truly cares about you, someone to make you feel safe when things get rough. 

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If someone makes a racist/sexist joke, say, with total seriousness, ‘I don’t get it, can you explain it?’. Then watch them crash and burn.

Louis C.K. (via mymangotree)

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It is OK

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Oh.

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Don’t fight your demons. Your demons are here to teach you lessons. Sit down with your demons and have a drink and a chat and learn their names and talk about the burns on their fingers and scratches on their ankles. Some of them are very nice.

Unknown (via sensibilitaet)