

“Don't hide your scars, your stretch marks,
your laugh lines, your calloused hands.
They are your life story,
telling of struggles won and lost,
challenges faced, losses overcome,
life grown and birthed and nurtured,
hard work accomplished,
stars reached for, hopes dashed, dreams realized,
rock bottoms and mountain tops.
They tell the story of your one
amazing, awful, beautiful life
written in the curves and lines of
extraordinary, miraculous, beautiful you.”
―
your laugh lines, your calloused hands.
They are your life story,
telling of struggles won and lost,
challenges faced, losses overcome,
life grown and birthed and nurtured,
hard work accomplished,
stars reached for, hopes dashed, dreams realized,
rock bottoms and mountain tops.
They tell the story of your one
amazing, awful, beautiful life
written in the curves and lines of
extraordinary, miraculous, beautiful you.”
―

“Leave a trail of light behind you
Everywhere you go.
Whose darkness you'll illuminate
You may never know.”
―
Everywhere you go.
Whose darkness you'll illuminate
You may never know.”
―

“I walk into the fire always, and come out more alive.”
― The Diary of Anaïs Nin Volume 4 1944-1947
― The Diary of Anaïs Nin Volume 4 1944-1947

“Here's to the bridge-builders, the hand-holders, the light-bringers, those extraordinary souls wrapped in ordinary lives who quietly weave threads of humanity into an inhumane world. They are the unsung heroes in a world at war with itself. They are the whisperers of hope that peace is possible. Look for them in this present darkness. Light your candle with their flame. And then go. Build bridges. Hold hands. Bring light to a dark and desperate world. Be the hero you are looking for. Peace is possible. It begins with us.”
―
―

“As I write, there rises somewhere in my head that queer and very pleasant sense of something which I want to write; my own point of view...”
― A Writer's Diary
― A Writer's Diary
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