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Thankful

Thankful for the small things, the tiny things, the in-between things—the way the wind sneaks through the cracks in the morning, whispers of coffee steam curling like ghostly lullabies, the scuff of a shoe on pavement, the hush of a friend’s voice saying I hear you. The weight of a book in your hands, the rhythm of a song that rattles your bones just right, headlights stretching long down an empty road.

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Collapsed Stars

I have loved stars that collapsed into themselves. People who once burned with the kind of brilliance that made you believe in something bigger—something divine. They carried light in their hands, in their words, in the way they saw the world with wild, unfiltered wonder. But like Icarus, like Lucifer, like every fallen thing that ever thought itself untouchable, they flew too high, reached too far, believed themselves invincible.

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Let It Unravel

The best is not behind you. The best is not in the hands you have already let go of, in the love that has already left, in the dreams that have already withered. The best is ahead, waiting for you to stop gripping the bones of something long dead.

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Deserve

Daily meditation is a curated collection of quotes for insight, contemplation and inspiration.

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Abundance

Daily meditation is a curated collection of quotes for insight, contemplation and inspiration.

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Magnet

Daily meditation is a curated collection of quotes for insight, contemplation and inspiration.

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Filled

Daily meditation is a curated collection of quotes for insight, contemplation and inspiration.

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Architect

Daily meditation is a curated collection of quotes for insight, contemplation and inspiration.

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Resilient

Daily meditation is a curated collection of quotes for insight, contemplation and inspiration.

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Uplifting

Daily meditation is a curated collection of quotes for insight, contemplation and inspiration.

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Resilience.

Resilience. That’s the word that sticks with me tonight. We’re capable of so much more than we give ourselves credit for. I’ve always known that, but tonight, it feels real. It feels close.

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Run Girl, Run,

But once you start running, you learn that stopping is the real fear. Stopping means facing the wreckage, looking in the mirror and seeing the ruins of what you once were. I knew—God, I knew—that if I slowed down, I’d hate what I saw.

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