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“When you’re hard on yourself because you think you should be doing or completing or achieving more, remember this: if all you do in this life is stay true to yourself, create meaningful connections, give people a safe place to land, cultivate your unique gifts and offer your wholehearted presence to every new experience that finds you —you’re doing so much more than you’ll ever realise. And if all you ever do is have one honest conversation each day. If all you ever do is show one person that they’re truly seen. If all you ever do is make someone laugh. If all you ever do is remain brave and open and curious and kind. If all you ever do is honour your beating heart. If all you ever do is sit with your pain and give yourself compassion and heal and keep healing over and over again. And if all you ever do is lean deeper into grace. If all you ever do is offer love and acceptance in rooms where it feels like there is none—then, I promise, you are doing so much more than you think.”
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~ Zanna Keithley : 📷 Unknown

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“Tears are a river
That takes you somewhere…
Tears lift your boat off the rocks,
Off dry ground,
Carrying it downriver
To someplace better.”
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~ Clarissa Pinkola Estés : 📷 Unknown

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“The heart is the inner face of your life. The human journey strives to make this inner face beautiful. It is here that love gathers within you. Love is absolutely vital for a human life. For love alone can awaken what is divine within you. In love, you grow and come home to your self. When you learn to love and let yourself be loved, you come home to the hearth of your own spirit. You are warm and sheltered.”
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~ John O’Donohue : 📷 Unknown

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“Sometimes, healing consists of sitting in coffee shops and writing the years from your mind. Sometimes healing is laughing until you cry, it is kissing your friends faces and being moved and inspired by your life. And sometimes, healing is rest, it is hiding from the world, it is having everything inside of you be still and quiet and eerily bare. Sometimes healing feels like nothing at all, like you are a silhouette of hope and hurt at the same time. Do not fight it. Whatever your healing looks like today, whatever it consists of — just allow it to be what it is. Just take care of yourself.”
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~ Bianca Sparacino : 📷 Unknown

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“The Horse Year is not about waiting for the right moment. It’s about moving when the truth is clear. This is the year momentum returns. Where courage replaces hesitation. Where life responds when you choose direction. The Horse doesn’t stand still. It moves forward with purpose. And it takes you with it.”
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~ The Spiritual Magic : 📷 Unknown
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Chinese New Year of the Horse
February 17th 2026 - February 5th 2027
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Gong Xi Fa Cai 恭喜发财 🧧

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“I can be in my house for days
No soul to disturb my inner silence.
This silence is sacred and necessary.
My soul will arise from it with a loud roar.

It’s days like these that matter
Not for the world, but for me.
Days where I sit with myself and listen
Even if the sound is just a whisper
Its value is not measured in volume,
But in depth.”
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~ Ruxandra Tiple : 📷 Sylvia Salmi
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Coming soon:
Frida: The Making of an Icon
Tate Modern 25 June 2026 - 3 Jan 2027

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“We tell ourselves stories
In order to live.
And it is worth pausing to ask:
Are the stories you are telling yourself
Nourishing you?
Are they brave?
Are they generous?
Do they allow for change, for growth,
For the breaking and remaking of the self?
If not, let them go and
Rewrite them with care.
You are the author, after all.”
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~ Joan Didion : 📷 Unknown
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Not quite a story but an interview in @theindustrybeauty
My heartfelt thanks to
@antonyhawman
@ana.stasia.maria
@daksha_c

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“Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. There is symbolic as well as actual beauty in the migration of the birds, the ebb and flow of the tides, the folded bud ready for the spring. There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature - the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after the winter.”
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~ Rachel Carson : 📷 Unknown

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“When you finally realise
That joy is less fireworks, more firefly
Less orchestra, more birdsong
She will come back much more often.

For joy will not fight with
The fast pace of this life
She is not in the shiny or the new.

She breathes in the basic,
Simmers in the simple and
Dances in the daily to-and-fro.

Joy has been beckoning you
For many a year my friend
You were just too busy doing, to see.

The very next time joy wraps
Her quiet warmth around you
As the garden embraces your
Weary body in its wildness.

Tip her a nod...
She doesn’t stay long
But if you are a gracious host
Joy comes back.”
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~ Donna Ashworth : 📷 Unknown

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“At the beginning of the day, I hope you can look up to the sky and let the rising sun remind you: you are worthy of new beginnings. And not only are you worthy of new beginnings, you are worthy of the process of easing into new beginnings. No matter how rushed the day feels, let there be room to ease into the day, in the same way the sun does.”
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~ Morgan Harper Nichols : 📷 Unknown
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Hello everyone,
I hope you have all had a wonderful festive season and my very best wishes for a happy and healthy 2026.
May there be ease and calmness as you navigate the beginning of another new year. Nature slumbers. There is no need to rush.
With love
Sarah 🤍xxx

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A blessing:

“May the sun shine upon you on the days where you need it most. And if it is not shining, may it come in the form of God and human and spirit and the most beautiful interactions.

May the road ahead of you always be ignited enough for you to find your way. But should you stumble, may your feet find solid ground again, even if you’re limping for a little while.

May the discoveries you make in each chapter of your life, serve as a testament to the growth that can happen when you feel at your most broken and vulnerable. May you count every step as a victory and every setback as an opportunity.

May those whose path you cross, be astounded by the measure of grace with which you carry yourself. May they always see something different radiating from your soul and may it be absolutely wildly contagious.

May there be lots of giving and gentle words and hunger for learning. May the distance between you and someone who is struggling always only be the length of an outstretched arm.

May your heart know the depths to which love can strengthen and save and empower and set aglow. And may every blessing you receive be a blessing that you give.”
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~ Ullie Kaye : 📷 Caspar Jade
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I am heading off for the holidays in a few days and shall return to this space in January.
I wish you all a beautiful Christmas and everything that is wonder filled for 2026.
Thank you so much for your amazing support for this account. It’s truly appreciated and I treasure all the connections.
Much love
Sarah 🎄🌟xxx

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“I will not take for granted,
The long roads I was given to walk
Because walking gave me courage
And courage is a gift to be carried
Along for a lifetime.

I will not take for granted,
Those words that came in whispers
And steadied my spirit
When I did not feel
An ounce of peace inside me

I will not take for granted,
The fierce stories of grandmothers and
The solemn teachings of grandfathers.
Or the ten thousand prayers
That were wept on my behalf.

I will not take for granted,
The friends who shone into me
When my own light grew thin.
Those who stayed
When things got hard and
Those who showed me that
There’s a time for everything -
Even walking away.

I will not take for granted,
The music, the birds
The flowers, the skies.
For when I could not find beauty,
They reached in and caused my heart
To pause with gratitude.

I will not take for granted,
That my soul is eternal and
The murmurs of my grief
Are only temporary.

I will not take for granted,
This one life.”
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~ Ullie Kaye : 📷 Unknown