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Jane Hirshfield, from a poem titled "Works and Loves," featured in The Asking: New and Selected Poems

Mihri Hatun, from a poem titled "At One Glance," featured in Nightingales and Pleasure Gardens: Turkish Love Poems

Li Qingzhao, from a poem titled "Late Spring," featured in The Complete Poems of Li Qingzhao

so i keep a little part of me on standby, just in case things go wrong.

Georgia O’Keeffe, from a letter to Alfred Stieglitz featured in My Faraway One: Selected Letters of Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz: Volume One, 1915-1933

— via jitterati

- Evelyn Waugh, from Brideshead Revisited (1945)

Friedrich Nietzsche

-Ritika Jyala, excerpt from The Flesh I Burned

Start with drinking one more cup of water than you usually would. The next day , make your bed. A couple of days later, alongside the water and made bed, eat a fruit and vegetable. A week later begin journaling on Tuesdays and read a chapter of a book every night. Months pass and you look back to see that while slow, you’ve developed 5 new habits. There might be days where you don’t want that peach and others when reading is not on the table, but that’s okay -that’s healing. And it doesn’t have a linear timeline. Everyone is going to experience it differently because everyone is different. Sometimes we get this surge of motivation and then maybe for a week or two behave exactly how we wish we did . But then it becomes mundane, you lose the motivation and burnout, never to pick up that book again. This happens because you don’t give yourself enough time to acclimate. You toss a newborn into water and expect it to swim. It’s easy to become overwhelmed, even by seemingly good things. So go easy on yourself and take it one step at a time