““If Your Success Is Not On Your Own Terms, If It Looks Good To The World But Does Not Feel Good

““If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.” - Anna Quindlen”

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“Oh, darling….You will be good to me, won’t you?…You will, won’t you?…Because we’re going to have a strange life.” - Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

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livinglikeriiver

3 years ago

letters to milena // franz kafka

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livinglikeriiver

3 years ago

— The Picture Of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde

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livinglikeriiver

3 years ago

IG: ena_inaday

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livinglikeriiver

3 years ago

Complicata

Part of the conundrum When understanding you There’s never enough time Only bare words and ash

wpm

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livinglikeriiver

3 years ago

Redress

Dug out that dress--you know the one

I wore when we met, all eyeleted sunflowers

Swore I looked approachably sweet

Yet had your heart racing uncontrollably

Je ne sais quoi to buck the quotidian

An enchanting chance encounter

If only you unearthed the woman beneath

Took a dip beyond the shallow end

Peered past the Sunday-in-bed appeal

So I slip it on for me now, a better fit

More oomph than you'd know what to do with

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livinglikeriiver

3 years ago

Prompt: Humans can actually breathe fire but no one knows as the art was lost long ago and is only known by dragons, who also don't know humans can breathe fire.

You meet a dragon on a hiking trip and they see your breath turn to smoke in the cold air, they propose to teach you how to breathe fire.

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