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“On the days you find the mirror hard to look at,
remember there is a myth which says
the face you have in this life
is the face of the person you loved most
in your last.
I know it's just a myth.
But think of how much more love
you would give yourself if it were true.”
― Nikita Gill, Where Hope Comes From: Poems of Resilience, Healing, and Light

tags: face, love, love-yourself, mirror, myth

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“Good Grief
Let your
heart break

so your spirit
doesn't.”
― Andrea Gibson, You Better Be Lightning

tags: grief-inspirational, healing

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“Grief, I'd come to realize was like dust, When you're in the thick of a dust storm, you're completely disoriented by the onslaught, struggling to see or breathe. But as the force recedes, and you slowly find your bearing and see a path forward, the dust begins to settle into the crevices. And it will never disappear completely- as the years pass, you'll find it in unexpected places at unexpected moments.”
― Mikki Brammer, The Collected Regrets of Clover

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“I wish you were here.
Autumn is the hardest season.
The leaves are all falling
and they’re falling like they’re falling in love with the ground
and the trees are naked and lonely.
I keep trying to tell them
new leaves will come around in the spring,
but you can’t tell trees those things,
they’re like me,
they just stand there
and don’t listen.

—Andrea Gibson, from “Photograph,” Pole Dancing To Gospel Hymns (Write Bloody Publishing, 2008)”
― Andrea Gibson, Pole Dancing to Gospel Hymns

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“..."let's think about each of these matches as a human life."... "each of these matches should burn for exactly the same amount of time, right?"..."but sometimes, you strike a match and it goes out almost immediately. Other times, it stops burning halfway."
"And sometimes it breaks when you try to light it."
"Exactly!... So even though they're technically the same, each match is actually very unique. Sometimes it's not as strong structurally, for reasons we can't see just by looking at it. And there are outside factors that contribute - like how hard we strike it against the box, or the dampness in the air, or how much breeze there is when we try to light it. All those things can affect how long a match burns for."...
"But what's that got to do with dying?"...
"Well, my dear, just as we don't know how long a match will last until we light it, we never know how long a life will last until we live it. And often there are factors that we have no control over.”
― Mikki Brammer, The Collected Regrets of Clover

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