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Never waste the sun, but don\u2019t waste the dark either. Use what you have. Show your stuff when you feel like it, but only to someone who will appreciate it. Most important of all, perfection is make believe.                    <\/p>\n<div class=\"caption\">\u2014 <b>The Sensual Starfish\u00a0<\/b> (via <a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/thesensualstarfish.tumblr.com\/\">thesensualstarfish<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps the lotus can explain things even better than I. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12749],"tags":[648,875,2661,2665,306,1535,3,617],"class_list":["post-4510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tumblr","tag-buddhism","tag-flowers","tag-lotus","tag-lotus-flower","tag-plants","tag-quote","tag-quote-of-the-day","tag-quotes"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>150767894142 - Do Not Destroy<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.donotdestroy.com\/index\/150767894142-2\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"150767894142 - 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