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Psssst! January is not a New Year. It’s a sales campaign!

It’s dark. Nothing is growing. You are a mammal.

Trying to reinvent your entire life this month is unhinged behaviour invented by productivity bros and people who sell planners.

Keep hibernating.

We’ll talk in March.

Annie Scott
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I celebrate New Year on the first day of spring.
I want to be like water. I want to slip through fingers, but hold up a ship.

Michelle Williams
The best decision I ever made was to be completely useless to a world that insisted all the wrong things were important. So I became so good at one thing I loved until I was stupid at everything else. They called it laziness. I called it focus.

Darby Hudson
Not everyone is here to wake up. Not everyone is here to go on a journey of discovering their true self and who they are truly meant to be. Some are here to go along with the masses. Some are here to learn to be part of a collective hive mind. It offers them security and safety that they cannot yet give up. You cannot force anyone to take a journey that is not right for them at this stage of their soul’s development. They must be ready to take it themselves.

Laura Matsue Guenther
I still love everyone
I've loved.

I think about them
while the water boils.

Poppy Cockburn
To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not, rich; to listen to stars and birds, babes and sages, with open heart; to study hard; to think quietly, act frankly, talk gently, await occasions, hurry never; in a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common. this is my symphony.

William Ellery Channing
If you aren't seeing anything inspiring, you're walking too fast.

Unknown
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.

Abi Bouhmaida
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For a lot of people, this is true, but my wife and I eat at the table and converse with each other. Even when she is working, and I'm home alone, I eat at the table with no devices to interrupt the silence. Very seldom do either of us have music on while cooking or doing other activities. Also, no devices when walking/hiking; why distract oneself from the beauty around you?
The price of loving someone very much is never loving anyone again.

Unknown
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Have to disagree with this one, it supposes that love is only possible on a one-to-one basis, and that isn't true (in my opinion.)
We have an entire generation fluent in personal branding and emotionally illiterate in private. People who can narrate their trauma flawlessly and cannot sit in silence with desire. Who can articulate boundaries and cannot recognise avoidance. Who talk about self-worth while negotiating every relationship like a transaction.

Tamara
Basked in the sun,
listened to the birds,
licked off raindrops,
and only in flight
the leaf saw the tree
and grasped
what it had been.

Vera Pavlova
I'm not asking you
to come down here
and clean out the muddy
corners of my life.

I'm asking you
to be a forest
where mud and leaves,
shadows and light,
growth and decay
all have their unquestioned
belonging.

How to Listen by Tabby
I do not plan to start anew
in January
that is for spring
this is the night
in the dead of winter
where I pare back excess
to reach the bones of my life
so when I am reborn
I am reborn as only
my most essential nature

A Lessening by David Gate
Every Empire assumes it is infinite.

And every Empire has eventually found itself nothing but a memory of ashes and dust.

There are no exceptions to this rule.

Nikita Gill
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The lone and level sands stretch far away.
Maybe your garden isn’t growing because every time a flower grows you cut it to prove to someone you’re a gardener.

Unknown
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