Jocelin Tania
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Jocelin Tania
Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
You can miss someone and still not want them back in your life
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So you’ve outgrown the version of love that required you to constantly prove you were worth staying for. And there is so much power in being the kind of person who can look back and still believe that yes it meant something… and still, no, I don’t want it ever again.
Be careful not to fall into the self-improvement trap.
The trap is thinking you're growing just because you're reading, watching videos, or listening to podcasts. It feels like progress, but most of the time, it’s just a way to avoid doing the actual stuff. No book or podcast will change your life unless you apply what... See more
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i keep a document on my phone called "things that felt like the end of the world but weren't."
every time i'm spiraling i add to it.
then i read the old ones.
"didn't get into first choice college" (met my best friend at second... See more
Darshak Ranasubstack.comYesterday, I felt embarrassed being an adult in the room.
My friend's daughter had made a "museum" in their living room.
Collections of rocks, drawings, a bird's nest, ticket stubs.
Hand-written placards: "This rock is important because it's... See more
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