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But whatever
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Whenever this ends I want you to know
That right now
I love you forever
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Andrea Gibson (How It Ends)
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I am not collarbones or drunken letters never sent. I am not the way I leave or left or didnβt know how to handle anything,
at any time,
and I am not your fault.
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Charlotte Eriksson
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I still remember you
as a little girl
who overwaters plants
because she doesnβt know
when to stop giving.
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Trista Mateer
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Celebrate who you are in your deepest heart. Love yourself and the world will love you.
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Amy Leigh Mercree
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β¦ our favorite Sayings from Ryke Meadows.
My favorite: I fucking love you.
Willowβs: I donβt fucking understand Tumblr.
Loβs: Fuck you, you fucking fuck.
Lilyβs: Fucking fantastic.
Roseβs: No means no. Better yet, fuck no.
Connorβs: Connor Cobalt is a fucking narcissist.
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Krista Ritchie (Long Way Down (Calloway Sisters, #4))
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Self love is the elixir of an immortal heart.
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Amy Leigh Mercree
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I am going to hurt you.
You are going to hurt me.
But we will do it with practiced fingers
and passionate mouths
and I swear to god
it will be worth something.
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Trista Mateer
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16 Things Romance Readers Are Tired Of Hearin
1. All Romance books are exactly the same.
2. The endings are so predictable.
3. You know romance doesn't happen like that in real life.
4. You're setting unrealistic expectations for yourself about love.
5. Real men don't have abs like that.
6.So you think you're going to go on a lot of dates?
7. So you think you're going to fall in love with an ex-boyfriend?
8. ...or a billionaire?
9. ...or a duke?
10. So you'll stop reading romances when you have a boyfriend, right?
11. It's basically mommy porn, right?
12. I could write a romance book.
13. Do you only read female authors?
14. I saw the Notebook once.
15. Is Danielle Steel your favorite author?
16. Do you read REAL books?
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Bookbub Bulletin
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Accept yourself: flaws, quirks, talents, secret thoughts, all of it, and experience true liberation.
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Amy Leigh Mercree
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You were the hardest year of my life and Iβve never been so happy. What does that say about me?
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Charlotte Eriksson
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Unconditional love is the greatest gift we can ever give.
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Amy Leigh Mercree
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Be uniquely you. Stand out. Shine. Be colorful. The world needs your prismatic soul!
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Amy Leigh Mercree
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G.I. Joe boxers!β Apollo screamed. βOHβoh, I canβt even... HAHAHAHAHA!β βAphrodite,β Athena giggled. βYou look simply lovely.β The gods couldn't stop laughing. Soon they were rolling on the floor, wiping tears from their eyes, taking photos with their phones to post on Tumblr.
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Finishing a book is bittersweet. You spend days getting to know the characters. Learning their nuances, their faults, their loves, their lives. They become your friends, acquaintances, enemies. And after the story ends, you miss them. You look for them in your own life, wonder where theyβve gone, you forget that they arenβt real. You fall in love with the hero and dream of him at night. The strange girl becomes your best friend. Their heartaches become your heartaches. You laugh when they laugh. And cry when they die. Eventually you realise they arenβt a part of your world, you were just briefly visiting theirs.
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Whimsical Enlightenment
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One woman filled with self love and self acceptance is a model more super than any cover girl.
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Amy Leigh Mercree
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Love yourself, even a little bit each day, and your life will bloom into infinite joy.
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Amy Leigh Mercree
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and if i asked you to name all the things that you love, how long would it take for you to name yourself?
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Sometimes, there comes a time when the universe just wants you to find all the love that you deserve inside the saddest parts of you. It is there where your healing will begin.
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Juansen Dizon (I Am The Architect of My Own Destruction)
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Deeply respecting yourself is the first step toward having a deep respect for others.
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Amy Leigh Mercree (The Spiritual Girl's Guide to Dating: Your Enlightened Path to Love, Sex, and Soulmates)
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And all she loved, she loved with a little sadness in her heart.
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Juansen Dizon (I Am The Architect of My Own Destruction)
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She had stars in her eyes and galaxies in her veins
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Rosie Perry
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An empowered heart is one filled with self love.
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Amy Leigh Mercree
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I am powerful in my love for myself. The truth of my being is I love myself exactly as I am. I honor my empowered heart.
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Amy Leigh Mercree (The Spiritual Girl's Guide to Dating: Your Enlightened Path to Love, Sex, and Soulmates)
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Spread love. Hug the people you care about and make sure they know that you care and appreciate them. Make it known to your friends and family that you love them.
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Germany Kent
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Donβt try to present your art by making other people read or hear or see or touch it; make them feel it. Wear your art like your heart on your sleeve and keep it alive by making people feel a little better. Feel a little lighter. Create art in order for yourself to become yourself
and let your very existence be your song, your poem, your story.
Let your very identity be your book.
Let the way people say your name sound like the sweetest melody.
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Charlotte Eriksson
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YOU are your own guru. YOU are your own soul mate. YOU are powerful. Take the reigns and drive your carriage home to love.
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Amy Leigh Mercree
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I've come to realize that love is tragic, somewhere down the line it's inevitable. Fight for it.
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Ann Marie Frohoff
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Daily love and kindness are the path to a happy life.
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Amy Leigh Mercree
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Each moment, each person, is sacred and worthy of respect- especially you.
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Amy Leigh Mercree (The Spiritual Girl's Guide to Dating: Your Enlightened Path to Love, Sex, and Soulmates)
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I have learned that feeling empty sometimes is okay. Iβve got to refill myself with something at some point. Art, love, solitude, random acts of kindness. I really donβt know, but thatβs what makes being whole again so exciting.
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Juansen Dizon (I Am The Architect of My Own Destruction)
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Treat yourself today! You are a unique, sparkling, spectacular soul. Celebrate you!
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Amy Leigh Mercree
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Love drips like honey from the hive, constant, sweet, precious, into your heart each and every moment if you let it.
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Amy Leigh Mercree
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Love is the opposite of fear and it lights the flames of a million hearts.
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Amy Leigh Mercree
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Live joy. Be kind. Love unconditionally.
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Amy Leigh Mercree
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I am not sad anymore.
I am not weak or tender or quiet like you remember because the second you said those words and closed that door, I sold my soul to the part of myself I had buried in order to love you, to let you touch every inch of my rotten body, for I wanted to be touchable and not so strange. Not so sad and tender, like Iβve always been, they say, so I changed.
And then your glances and words throwing knives with no return about my change of habits and ways of living, being, and I nodded and smiled, dying silently a little bit inside.
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Charlotte Eriksson (You're Doing Just Fine)
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You & Me
I will always
be glad
for the moments
weβve shared
and for the moments
we still have to share.
Waking up next to you
is a miracle:
Your skin; My skin
Your eyes; My eyes
Your hair; My fingers
Your paintings; My poems
Your piercings; My tattoos
Your overfeeling mind; My overthinking heart
Your fart in the middle of the night; My uncontainable laughter
Your soft yawn when you woke up;
My lips kissing your soul back to sleep;
My head on your chest;
Listening to the heart that taught me itβs okay to feel again.
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Juansen Dizon (I Am The Architect of My Own Destruction)
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The power of love can spread magic to the world like nothing else.
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Amy Leigh Mercree
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Sometimes being happy takes effort. Invest time and energy in yourself and your happiness.
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Amy Leigh Mercree
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I think you could fall in love with anyone if you saw the parts of them that no one else gets to see. I don't know, like if you followed them around invisibly for a day and you saw them crying in their bed at night or singing to themselves as they make a sandwich or even just walking along the street and even if they were really weird and had no friends at school, I think after seeing them at their most vulnerable you wouldn't be able to help falling in love with them.
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Well, at least this is what I told myself every day as I fell asleep with the fire still burning and the moon shining high up in the sky and my head spinning comforting from two bottles of wine, and I smiled with tears in my eyes because it was beautiful and so god damn sad and I did not know how to be one of those without the other.
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Charlotte Eriksson (Another Vagabond Lost To Love: Berlin Stories on Leaving & Arriving)
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Be real, rare, refreshing you! Fan the flames of self love and ignite your light!
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Amy Leigh Mercree
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This isnβt Tumblr, Juliet, straight men do exist here.
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Cale Dietrich (The Love Interest)
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Life provides chances to open your heart all the time.
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Amy Leigh Mercree (The Spiritual Girl's Guide to Dating: Your Enlightened Path to Love, Sex, and Soulmates)
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A circle's unity and never ending smoothness is how we can aim to feel inside. Smooth, gentle, accepted, no rough edges, only love for all parts of our selves.
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Amy Leigh Mercree
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True love begins when you accept yourself in your totality. Then, and only then, can you completely love another.
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Amy Leigh Mercree
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Being present to yourself in love and with kindness is the ultimate gift.
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Amy Leigh Mercree
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Soul mate romance dissolves the superficial and touches your deepest heart with the delightful power of love.
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Amy Leigh Mercree
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Talk to yourself like a cherished friend. Treat yourself with love and care. You are perfect, just as you are.
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Amy Leigh Mercree (The Compassion Revolution: 30 Days of Living from the Heart)
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Your inner critic is simply a part of you that needs more self-love.
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Amy Leigh Mercree (The Compassion Revolution: 30 Days of Living from the Heart)
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Itβs tough enough to be a straight boy in a small town high school looking for the love of your life. But at least your possible loves are all out in the open.
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JUVENALIUS
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It takes drive and focus to move from potential to reality.
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Amy Leigh Mercree (The Spiritual Girl's Guide to Dating: Your Enlightened Path to Love, Sex, and Soulmates)
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Your healthy love for yourself is sexy!
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Amy Leigh Mercree (The Spiritual Girl's Guide to Dating: Your Enlightened Path to Love, Sex, and Soulmates)
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Sharing your kindness sparks understanding all around. Then like fireflies in the night, twinkling love surrounds you.
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Amy Leigh Mercree
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Connecting our hearts through love yields a nectar so sweet we are forever full.
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Amy Leigh Mercree
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As architect of your reality, you are empowered to create it as you choose.
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Amy Leigh Mercree (The Spiritual Girl's Guide to Dating: Your Enlightened Path to Love, Sex, and Soulmates)
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Choose love and joy as much as you can in each moment and watch your life transform.
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Amy Leigh Mercree
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Nurturing a feeling makes it proliferate. Choose wisely. Joy, kindness, love, & caring will illuminate your life.
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Amy Leigh Mercree
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donβt work yourself to the point of a mental breakdown. give priority to your mental health. you are only a few steps away from completely losing your balance and breaking your mind. take one step back every time you take two steps forward. breathe. be mindful. see through life as it transpires moment by moment. learn when to rest. sleep is important. eating healthily is important. everything you do for the sake of your sanity is important. being kind to your mind is the best self-care there is. if thereβs anything thatβs lovely about you, it is your mind.
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Juansen Dizon (I Am The Architect of My Own Destruction)
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Speak to yourself with compassion on the inside and you will radiate peace on the outside.
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Amy Leigh Mercree (The Compassion Revolution: 30 Days of Living from the Heart)
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Seeking external validation brings disappointment. Validate yourself from within to find true happiness.
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Amy Leigh Mercree (The Compassion Revolution: 30 Days of Living from the Heart)
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Self-acceptance is pure power.
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Amy Leigh Mercree (The Spiritual Girl's Guide to Dating: Your Enlightened Path to Love, Sex, and Soulmates)
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Love yourself deeply and be satisfied with the amazing life you create.
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Amy Leigh Mercree (The Spiritual Girl's Guide to Dating: Your Enlightened Path to Love, Sex, and Soulmates)
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YOU are the magic code that unlocks your happiness.
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Amy Leigh Mercree (The Spiritual Girl's Guide to Dating: Your Enlightened Path to Love, Sex, and Soulmates)
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Twitter, Reddit, Tumblr, Instagram, all these companies are businesses first, but, as a close second, theyβre demographers of unprecedented reach, thoroughness, and importance. Practically as an accident, digital data can now show us how we fight, how we love, how we age, who we are, and how weβre changing. All we have to do is look:
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Christian Rudder (Dataclysm: Love, Sex, Race, and Identity--What Our Online Lives Tell Us about Our Offline Selves)
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An ocean of shimmering love exists in your heart. Tap into it today and rest in the undulating currents of the great mystery.
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Amy Leigh Mercree
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I honor and love the fairy folk and am excited to keep getting know them for the rest of my life!
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Amy Leigh Mercree (Joyful Living: 101 Ways to Transform Your Spirit and Revitalize Your Life)
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Loving yourself is required for authentic relationships.
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Amy Leigh Mercree (The Spiritual Girl's Guide to Dating: Your Enlightened Path to Love, Sex, and Soulmates)
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Making time to experience joy is the single most important thing you can do to heal your heart.
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Amy Leigh Mercree (The Spiritual Girl's Guide to Dating: Your Enlightened Path to Love, Sex, and Soulmates)
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So you have chosen aloneness. You have chosen the security and the relative freedom of solitude, because there is no risk involved. You can stay up every night and watch your TV shows and eat ice cream out of the box and scroll through your Tumblr and never let your brain sit still, not even for a moment. You can fill your days up with books and coffees and trips to the store where you forget what you wanted the second you walk in the automatic sliding door. You can do so many little, pointless things throughout the day that all you can think of is how badly you want to sleep, how heavy your whole body is, how much your feet hurt. You can wear yourself out again and again on the pavement, and you do, and it feels good. No one will ever bridge that gap and point to your stomach or your hair or your eyes in the mirror and magically make you see the wonderful things about getting to be next to you. And maybe thatβs it, after all, this fear that no one will ever truly feel about you the way you want to be felt about. Maybe what you want is someone to make you love yourself, to put sense into all that positive rhetoric, to make it so the aloneness of TV and blasting music in your ears at all times isnβt the most happy place you can think of. Maybe you want someone who makes you so sure of how wonderful things are that you cannot help but to tell them your feelings first, even at the risk of being humiliated. Because you will know that, when youβre telling them you love them, what youβre really saying is βI love who I become when I am with you.
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Chelsea Fagan
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Integration happens when all parts of your being are in harmony.
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Amy Leigh Mercree (Joyful Living: 101 Ways to Transform Your Spirit and Revitalize Your Life)
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Peak performance happens when we feel loved and supported from within.
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Amy Leigh Mercree (The Compassion Revolution: 30 Days of Living from the Heart)
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Let go of rejections and focus on self-reflection. For it is within that you will find the light you seek.
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Amy Leigh Mercree (The Compassion Revolution: 30 Days of Living from the Heart)
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You are a dynamo, and every day offers a choice to create a life you love.
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Amy Leigh Mercree (The Compassion Revolution: 30 Days of Living from the Heart)
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Everything you do matters. Every time you share and care, the light multiplies.
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Amy Leigh Mercree (The Compassion Revolution: 30 Days of Living from the Heart)
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I accept love and bliss from benevolent, highly vibrational spirit friends for my highest good.
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Amy Leigh Mercree (Joyful Living: 101 Ways to Transform Your Spirit and Revitalize Your Life)
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There is nothing that can defeat you if it does not first capture your mind.
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Kierra C.T. Banks
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When you give your mind, body, and heart the message that you are worth the effort of being conscious, miraculous things start to happen.
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Amy Leigh Mercree (The Spiritual Girl's Guide to Dating: Your Enlightened Path to Love, Sex, and Soulmates)
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We can accept and embrace our pasts as part of the path that shaped who we are now.
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Amy Leigh Mercree (The Spiritual Girl's Guide to Dating: Your Enlightened Path to Love, Sex, and Soulmates)
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Just imagine you are dying tomorrow. Everyday. You will be much kinder to the world, there will be more love in you. That way.
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Minhal Mehdi
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Thanksgiving is a joyous invitation to shower the world with love and gratitude.
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Amy Leigh Mercree
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An empowered sense of self-love means you truly love and accept yourself as you would a treasured lover or a sweet, wonderful child, and that you do this from a place of strength of character and belief in yourself.
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Amy Leigh Mercree (The Spiritual Girl's Guide to Dating: Your Enlightened Path to Love, Sex, and Soulmates)
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I celebrate who I am, what I love, and all of my blessings that lead to joy.
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Amy Leigh Mercree (Joyful Living: 101 Ways to Transform Your Spirit and Revitalize Your Life)
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Find the light within you through meditation and introspection, and you will illuminate your life from within.
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Amy Leigh Mercree (The Compassion Revolution: 30 Days of Living from the Heart)
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I am loved and held by a benevolent universe of love and bliss for all time.
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Amy Leigh Mercree (Joyful Living: 101 Ways to Transform Your Spirit and Revitalize Your Life)
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I keep the light and love from my ancestors and let go of the rest.
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Amy Leigh Mercree (Joyful Living: 101 Ways to Transform Your Spirit and Revitalize Your Life)
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Imagine a brilliant rose of pure love in your heart. Next, see a twinkling flower within the hearts of all you meet.
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Amy Leigh Mercree (Joyful Living: 101 Ways to Transform Your Spirit and Revitalize Your Life)
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Love yourself like you would a treasured love or a cherished child.
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Amy Leigh Mercree (Joyful Living: 101 Ways to Transform Your Spirit and Revitalize Your Life)
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Notice how extraordinary your life truly is. Itβs filled with love. Open your heart to it.
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Amy Leigh Mercree (Joyful Living: 101 Ways to Transform Your Spirit and Revitalize Your Life)
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I am filled with abundance, gratitude, and love.
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Amy Leigh Mercree (Joyful Living: 101 Ways to Transform Your Spirit and Revitalize Your Life)
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I live love in each moment. I let love heal me and elevate me to my highest self.
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Amy Leigh Mercree (Joyful Living: 101 Ways to Transform Your Spirit and Revitalize Your Life)
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I allow myself to rest deeply and be rejuvenated, trusting the love of the angels to support and hold me for my highest good.
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Amy Leigh Mercree (Joyful Living: 101 Ways to Transform Your Spirit and Revitalize Your Life)
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I live love. I am made of infinite love. I choose love in each moment.
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Amy Leigh Mercree (Joyful Living: 101 Ways to Transform Your Spirit and Revitalize Your Life)
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The secret to consciously dating is letting your heart be your guide.
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Amy Leigh Mercree (The Spiritual Girl's Guide to Dating: Your Enlightened Path to Love, Sex, and Soulmates)
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To know what you want, you need to know yourself.
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Amy Leigh Mercree (The Spiritual Girl's Guide to Dating: Your Enlightened Path to Love, Sex, and Soulmates)
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Dating from the place of internal emotional safety tells your being that you will care for it well.
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Amy Leigh Mercree (The Spiritual Girl's Guide to Dating: Your Enlightened Path to Love, Sex, and Soulmates)
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Your beauty is tragic.
It is the sweetest sin,
Heaven ever created!
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Loving someone who doesn't love you is like waiting for a ship at the airport - Tumblr
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Itβs been four years since Justin kissed his best friend Lucas when they were both just 12. Then Justin, afraid of what it meant, afraid of how he felt, afraid of what it made him, ran and has been running from and avoiding Lucas for these four years. The thing about running is that no matter how fast you run, the past always catches up with you, and when faced with his past and all the things heβs missed, Justin finds he doesnβt want to run anymore. Now Justin wants to try to make things right with Lucas; he wants his best friend back. But maybe it's too late. Maybe Lucas has moved on. Read the story to find out if Justin is successful. This story isn't only about internalized homophobia and the hurtful things it leads gay kids to do to themselves and others. It is much more about truth, love and hurt and coming to terms with those things, forgiving yourself, and loving yourself enough to hold yourself accountable.
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Itβs much, much tougher when youβre a 17 year-old gay boy, part of only 10% or less of the school population and your possible loves are all in hiding, just as you are, due to the fear of being socially ostracized, laughed at, condemned and physically harassed by your peers.
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What's it like for a young teen of barely 14, trying to cope with all the normal problems of adolescence, and wrestling with the realization that he's gay on top of all that? Juvenalius struggles with accepting himself and with the idea of coming out, as well as trying to find a boy who he can love and be loved back in return. Narrated by him, find out how he deals with it all and how those important to his life help.
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