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An appreciation post for all the coffees & teas I’ve lovingly consumed this year. There is something so healing about taking a small moment to enjoy a warm drink, especially when it feels like a hug in a mug. ☕️🤍

5 things i wish i could tell myself a year ago:

don’t give up on your dreams

getting to where you want to be takes time, but that time is worth it

you deserve better, and there is better out there

don’t be afraid to go out of your comfort zone while you’re trying to find your place in this world

don’t forget that you deserve love without having to earn it

“I want to look back and say that I was alive. That I didn’t turn my back. That I tried. That I was happy.”

— Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited

sandra cisneros, the house on mango street / tatyana nilovna yablonskaya - morning, 1954 / anatoly levitin- warm day, 1957 / harry sutton palmer - a cottage garden, 20th c. / phoebe bridgers, i know the end / sarah abraham - one fine morning, 2013 / theo gosselin - denver morning 5, 2015 / gaston bachelard, the poetics of space / federico zandomeneghi - in bed, 1878 / laura ingalls wilder /colley wisson- morning light kyneton australia, 21st c. / @gabi_wahl on instagram / lauren jolly roberts - cecile’s garden, 2006 / maya angelou, all god’s children need traveling shoes

if you can and want to, go to college when you’re 30. move out at 40. learn to drive at 50. life is short but it is also so long. it’s not too late to do new things.

Reblog for good luck on your exams

i've been thinking a lot about this recently so i figured i'd share: i once had a professor say "don't let perfect become the enemy of good" and i think that's a very hard thing to learn for a lot of us but it's also a very important thing to learn. it's very easy to get caught up in this idea that things need to be perfect (or even just one specific way) even if what we have is already good, and that mindset can be really toxic and harmful in a lot of ways. i guess what i'm trying to say here is it's okay to just do good work. hell, it's okay to do mediocre or even downright bad work. you don't have to be perfect all the time to make your work worthwhile.