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“wish pure love and soft peace upon the ones who’ve been unkind to you and keep moving forward - this will free you both”
― Rupi Kaur, The Sun and Her Flowers

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“I squat there and think about how you get trained early on as a woman to perceive how others are perceiving you, at the great expense of what you yourself are feeling about them. Sometimes you mix the two up in a terrible tangle that’s hard to unravel.”
― Lily King, Writers & Lovers

tags: clarity, feelings, perception, women

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“Is that what art is? To be touched thinking what we feel is ours when, in the end, it was someone else, in longing, who finds us?”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

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“you are waiting for someone who is not coming back meaning you are living your life hoping that someone will realize they can’t live theirs without you - realizations don’t work like that”
― Rupi Kaur, The Sun and Her Flowers

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“Learn everything. Fill your mind with knowledge—it’s the only kind of power no one can take away from you.” Hansu never told him to study, but rather to learn, and it occurred to Noa that there was a marked difference. Learning was like playing, not labor.”
― Min Jin Lee, Pachinko

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