Fight your way through that, okay?

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Beauty in the European sense has always had a premeditated quality to it. We’ve always had an aesthetic intention and a long-range plan. Thats what enabled Western man to spend decades building a Gothic cathedral; or a Renaissance piazza. The beauty of New York rests on a different base, it’s unintentional.

Unintentional beauty, beauty by mistake.

the unbearable lightness of being

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Phew.

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Fear is the cheapest room in the house. I’d like to see you living in better conditions.

—Hafiz

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Either you are broken open, or you willfully shed.

-mark nepo

#ahamoment

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Be adventurous, be curious. 

Grab that weird-looking vegetable at the market. Flip one more page. Say “yes” (or maybe just a nervous “okay”). Take your bend one step further. Shoot that text. Book a trip to the unknown. 

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Every creative thing you do: singing, dancing, cooking, painting, even people watching. Anything you do that makes you feel alive is really nothing short of a prayer.

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The older I get, the louder I like my music.

Either I am going deaf or actually getting younger.

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“It’s true! We really didn’t know you were going to be a girl. And when the doctor was pulling you out, you were so long…’It’s a boy, it’s a boy! Oh! No! It’s a girl?’ he said, so, we picked your name, in a hospital room. Between jello and machine beeps.”

“Well, then the whole time before that…what color was my nursery if you didn’t know what to expect?”

“Mint green. Maybe that’s why it’s one of your favorites. You never have been a big fan of pink.” 

-my mother and I

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Clap along if you feel like happiness is the truth.

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