“…that sacred earth that is your body.”
— Mevlana Jelaluddin Rumi, tr. by Daniel Ladinsky, from “That Lives in Us.”
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daniel radcliffe: *tries his best to widen his horizons and take on various interesting and different roles*
me: look at the harry potter man go
“What patience you had to have with yourself. What patience you had to have in order to save your own little life.”
— Clarice Lispector, from “Beauty and the Beast or a Wound too Great,”
“Metamorphosis, crystallization, rebirth, horizon, discovery, phoenix, lustrum, resolution, decision, revolution; I would need to use all these words with mastery to describe what I felt.”
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Paulo Emílio Sales Gomes, from Her Times Two: “First Carnet,”
when clarice lispector said “respect yourself more than others, respect your needs, respect even what is bad in you—respect especially what you imagine to be bad in you—for the love of God, don’t try to make yourself into somebody perfect—don’t copy an ideal person, copy yourself—that is the one way to live. take for yourself what belongs to you, and what belongs to you is all that your life demands. it seems like an amoral moral. but what is truly amoral is having given up on yourself. have the courage to transform yourself, my darling”
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