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[jaylene @EugeneJaylene02]

We love you !! @brentfaiyaz #Wasteland 🫶🏼🫶🏼

[¥ @laylanaiim]

And for the lady, perhaps a soft, low cortisol life & a calm nervous system.

[Tselane @JustTselane]

Sometimes “locking in” looks like sitting in the sun and remembering that your life is also meant to be lived, not just optimized, monetized, and turned into proof that you’re worthy.

[aether @bluewdrift]

i heard a therapist say, ‘your feelings are always valid, your behavior is not.’ she explained by saying feel what you feel but you need to be accountable for what you do as a result of those feelings.

[Ugbede @ugbede_ugbede]

Someone said “Pattern recognition is one of the highest forms of intelligence” and I agree with them.

[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

burnout is sneaky because you don't realize you're borrowing from tomorrow to push through today

[Hassan. @Heyitshassan]

A big part of adulting is this realisation that there is so much of you that you cannot share with anyone. Not even with the people closest to you

[Muna @Munalozy]

I value consideration a lot. Because, If you really love someone, you consider them. You think before you speak, and you move with an awareness of how your actions affect their peace. You care about what makes them feel safe, not just what makes you feel good. If you truly love them, you think about how your actions will affect them

[Chi @__Poisonivyyy]

Manipulative people don’t apologize for how they treated you. Instead, they shift the blame onto you and twist your natural reactions into proof that you’re the problem.

[nina lee @NinaSerafina]

That Samuel L Jackson interview where he was like “I’m in the right place, it’s just not my turn yet” is always a good reminder.

[Whemïmor @hy_wemmy]

Education is SOOOOO IMPORTANT. Degrees, licenses, certs. Training classes. Late nights and early morning studying. Weekend and night school. Community college, don’t matter what it takes. JUST DO IT.

[MA LE BO @Melo_Malebo]

We are overstimulated and we don't even notice. Netflix while eating. Reels in the bathroom. Music while cooking. Podcasts on walks. We consume by default, not by intention. You keep filling every gap, then wonder why you feel foggy and unmotivated.

Boredom and silence are the real growth drivers. They give you space to think and create. That's when solutions show up for problems that have been stuck for months. Leave some room.

[blue @bluewmist]

the gap between where you are and where you want to be is called work.

it's not magic. it's not luck. it's not talent. it's work.

boring, repetitive, uncomfortable work done consistently over time.

[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

i think one of the healthiest things i've ever learned is that you should allow others to reintroduce themselves to you, even your closest friends. Give people space to become who they are without assuming you know who they are just because you've been friends/family for years.

[Triiad ୭୭ @triiadxx]

a lesson i learned this year is that a person's capacity for growth is directly linked to how much truth they can face about themselves without running away

[jo johnson @josbjohnson]

master your craft so completely that it becomes your language. not the language you speak to impress others, but the language you think in. where the work isn’t separate from you, isn’t something you do, but something you are. where your hands know before your mind does. where you’ve repeated the fundamentals so many times they’ve dissolved into instinct.

it’s not just talent. it’s mind and body numbing devotion. it’s showing up when inspiration left. it’s the thousand hours nobody saw that make the one hour everybody wants.

excellence is a religion.
and the only prayer that matters is practice.

[Steph @StephanieYeboah]

Exactly this. The villain here is the cost of living. Everything is so expensive.

[໊ @meishato]

i just heard the phrase, “if you wouldn’t trust their advice, don’t trust their criticism” for the first time and i don’t think i’ve ever needed to hear anything more

[Triiad ୭୭ @triiadxx]

A girl on tik tok just said "I would rather adjust my life to your absence, than adjust my boundaries to accommodate your disrespect" and I think that a lot of people need to take that and really engrave it into their soul.