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“Be a walking contradiction. Be strong and soft. Be deep and lighthearted. Be beautiful and intelligent. Be confident and humble. Be someone with a quick wit and a cheap sense of humour. Be content climbing a mountain and enjoying the sweetness of doing nothing. The world may try and classify you as one thing because that is far easier to understand than a person who has a little bit of everything in them. And you may feel misunderstood for a while, but just remember your people can only find you if you’re brave enough to be yourself. There are parts of you that you have yet to discover. There is greater love that you have yet to find. There are experiences that are far beyond your imagination. And it’s all waiting for you. Life is waiting for you. So set aside your expectations and go and explore it.”
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~ Allie Michelle : 📷 Rico Puhlmann

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A room does not
Turn its back on grief.
Anger does not excite it.
Before desire, it neither responds
Nor draws back in fear.
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Without changing expression
It takes
And gives back;
Not a tuft in the mattress alters.
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Windowsills evenly welcome
Both heat and cold.
Radiators speak or fall silent
As they must.
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Doors are not equivocal,
Floorboards do not hesitate or startle.
Impatience does not stir the curtains,
A bed is neither irritable nor rapacious.
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Whatever disquiet we sense in a room
We have brought there.
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And so I instruct my ribs each morning,
Pointing to hinge and plaster and wood -
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“You are matter, as they are.
See how perfectly it can be done.
Hold, one day more, what is asked.”
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~ Jane Hirshfield : 📷 Unknown

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“Please, be proud of the pieces that make you, you. Embrace the oddities and hold onto them with everything you have. These strange little quirks belong to us, and only us, and they are all absolutely vital in creating the bigger picture that is who we are. Be proud of yourself, because if you are, it never matters who else is. Because when you are, the inevitability of other people believing in you and being proud too, is such an amazing bonus to the strength you already possess.”
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~ Tyler Knott Gregson : 📷 Unknown

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“We all have a bag. We all pack differently. Some of us are travelling light. Some of us are secret hoarders who’ve never parted with a memory in our lives. I think we are all called to figure out how to carry our bag to the best of our ability, how to unpack it, and how to face the mess. I think part of growing up is learning how to sit down on the floor with all your things and figuring out what to take with you and what to leave behind.”
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~ Hannah Brencher : 📷 Eric Guillemain

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“Walls will find us
In this life,
Walls and fences
And so many reasons
To give up, give in.
It is up to us,
Us and only us,
To climb them,
To cling to them
Like leaves and grow anyway.
Let the light shine through,
For there are always cracks.
Grow, grow defiant
Against the walls
That tower around you,
The fences that lock you in.”
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~ Tyler Knott Gregson : 📷 Unknown

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“Beautiful is the woman
Who knows people,
Places and things
Don’t define her.
She is defined by
Her acts of loving kindness
And a generous heart.”
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~ Michael Chatman : 📷 Unknown

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“Some of us don’t want
To be tough alpha leaders.
Some of us just want to write
And wander
The garden
And breathe in the sky
And nourish and nurture
And quietly create
New pathways
And live our
Lives as our art.
To know the earth
As poetry.”
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~ Victoria Erickson : 📷 Arthur Elgort

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“I don’t know
What it’s like
To not have
Deep emotions,
Even when I feel
Nothing,
I feel it
Completely.”
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~ a.r. asher : 📷 Paolo Roversi

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“Everybody has a home team: It’s the people you call when you get a flat tire or when something terrible happens. It’s the people who, near or far, know everything that’s wrong with you and love you anyways. These are the ones who tell you their secrets, who get themselves a glass of water without asking when they’re at your house. These are the people who cry when you cry. These are your people, your middle-of-the-night, no-matter-what-people.”
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~ Shauna Niequist : 📷 Unknown

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“Let the mind be the mind.
Behind its restless activity,
Just one layer deeper
Is stillness,
And beneath even that,
Is an ocean
Of mystery and truth.
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Swim in this eternal sea
Until you know yourself
To be infinity,
And bring that knowing
Back into your day.
Why struggle to be
What you are already?
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Let the mind be the mind,
But don’t bind yourself
To its limited reality.
Trust your experience
Of vastness.
Trust the truth
That never loses potency
Or disappears in fear.
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Let the mind be the mind
And identify not
With thought,
But silence.”
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~ Danna Faulds : 📷 Ian & Erick Regnard

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“Allow yourself to fall.
Fall into art and minds,
Into places and
Senses and skin.
Sometimes we find
Ourselves best
When we lose ourselves
Not knowing where
They even end
And where we begin.”
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~ Victoria Erickson : 📷 Unknown

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“Tell your story. Just be sure to not get locked inside of it. Your story is the past that has already fallen from the present. It’s never been a mountain blocking you from moving forward. Because your story is water. An oceanic wave that has led you to this point, forever fluid and retreating back into open seas. Despite all that has brought you here, you are and always will be light. Malleable. Luminous. Free.”
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~ Victoria Erickson : 📷 Peter Lindbergh

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