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"You are alive, and you don't need to justify your existence. You can be the biggest mystery in your own story." ♥️
— Don Miguel Ruiz
🖼 by Mafalda Vasconcelos (left) and Naranjalidad (right)
"[It] does not mean that it does not hurt. [It] does not mean that we are not frightened. Only that: we are here. This is what it means to swim in the tide, to walk the earth and feel it touch your feet. This is what it means to be alive."
— Madeline Miller
🖼️ by Victo Ngai
"I am my best days. I am who I am when I am smiling at the sun." ☀️
— Juansen Dizon
🖼️ by Pinktofu art (left) and 3 days march (right)
"The butterfly does not look back at the caterpillar in shame, just as you should not look back at your past in shame. Your past was part of your own transformation."
— Anthony Gucciardi
"You had to be that person to become this one."
— Rupi Kaur
(Illustration by Jonas Naimark)
✨ Happy #WorldIntrovertDay ✨
🖼️ mienar (left); Alleanna Harris (top right); Diobelle Cerna (bottom right)
"I am rooted, but I flow." 🌊
— Virginia Woolf
🖼 Illustrations by 3 Days March (left) and Iwera Vera Ivanova (right)
"When the world feels like an emotional roller coaster, steady yourself with simple rituals. Do the dishes. Fold the laundry. Water the plants. Simplicity attracts wisdom."
(Illustration by viivus)
"Let July be July.
Let August be August.
And let yourself
just be
even in
the uncertainty.
You don't have to fix
everything.
You don't have to solve
everything.
And you can still
find peace
and grow
in the wild
of changing things."
— Morgan Harper Nichols
Art by Liza Rusalskaya
"I am learning every day to allow the space between where I am and where I want to be to inspire me and not terrify me."
— Tracee Ellis Ross
(Illustrations by 9Jedit)