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Answer: Love Myself by BTS

I open my eyes in the darkness

When the sound of my beating heart feels unfamiliar,

I face you in the mirror

The fear-ridden eyes, a long-pending question

Perhaps, loving myself might be harder

Than loving someone else

Let’s be honest and admit what we have to admit

that your standards are more strict when they are applied to you

The thick tree rings in your life

*A tree ring, or a growth ring, is a layer of wood produced during one tree’s growing season. A tree gains a ring after each winter it endures. The longer a growing season is, the wider the corresponding ring is. “The wide growth ring in your life” therefore seems to mean a hardship or a dark period you have managed to go through in your life.

That is also a part of you, that is also you

So let’s forgive yourself now

Our life is too long to be given up

Trust yourself in the maze

Once the winter passes, spring will come again

From the eyes of the cold night

I try to hide myself

As I keep tossing and turning, but

Maybe I fell in order to take the place of those countless stars

I’m the only target aimed by those thousands of glittering arrows

You’ve shown me I have reasons

I should love myself

I answer with all my breath and all the path I’ve walked along

Yesterday’s me, today’s me, tomorrow’s me

(I’m learning how to love myself)

Without exception, all together, they are all me

Perhaps there might be no answer

Perhaps this might not be the answer either

It’s just that loving myself

Doesn't require anyone else's permission

I’m still looking for myself again

But I don’t want to die anymore

Me, who was sad

Me, who was hurt

Me, who will be more beautiful

*The Korean pronunciation of 美, a Chinese character meaning beautiful, is mi, making the above three lines end rhyme with each other.

Yeah, knowing the presence of such beauty

On the path to loving myself

It's what I need the most

I'm walking for myself

It's an action needed for me

My attitude towards myself

That's the happiness I need for me

I'll show you what I got

I'm not afraid because that is my own existence (Love myself)

The move that has to be made for me now

Love myself

From the start of the beginning

and until the finish of the ending,

there is only one answer

Why do you keep trying to hide under your mask,

when even the scars made by your own mistakes make up your constellations

You’ve shown me I have reasons

I should love myself

I answer with all my breath and all the path I’ve walked along

Inside me, there’s still

my clumsy self

You’ve shown me I have reasons

I should love myself

I answer with all my breath and all the path I’ve walked along

Yesterday’s me, today’s me, tomorrow’s me

(I’m learning how to love myself)

Without exception, all together, they are all me

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Healing doesn’t have to mean you completely fix things. It doesn’t mean you’re fixing what’s broken and putting the pieces back how they were.

Healing is often about us putting the pieces back differently. Sometimes there are missing pieces. Sometimes there are new pieces. And that’s all okay.

Your worth isn’t any different, no matter how much you may have changed. You can choose who you are now.

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a few more drawing studies based on my japan travels

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My Cat, Keiko Hiratsuka Moore.

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dreamy fields - speedpaint warmups

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my shop | mobile wallpapers

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I hate that the stock response for "I'm lonely/I feel undervalued by my loved ones/I want a romantic partner" is "well do you value YOURSELF? You need to learn to enjoy being alone!" as if lonely people aren't very intimately familiar with being alone. Self esteem and love are important but they're not substitutes for companionship or friendship or romance and pretending that loneliness is a personal failure that can be fixed by self-improvement feels not only delusional but pretty cruel

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20 Tips on how to love yourself more Infographics

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by Libby Frame

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by Adrian Gottlieb

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by Alessandra Olanow

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really just want to live a quiet life with quiet, genuine, humble people. not interested in loud people or dramatic situations. just want peace, and the sun, and tenderness, and warmth.

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“Seeking God — really seeking — is more than just reading a few verses from the Bible in the morning and trying to be a good person that day. Seeking requires me to sacrifice the things I feel compelled to chase so I can be available to notice God’s clear direction. Whatever we chase, like it or not, gains our full attention. Jeremiah 29:13, “You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart.” (NIV)”

— Lysa TerKeurst (via daughterbydesign)

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Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (2004)

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Anna Akhmatova, from “White Flock” (1914)