Acceptance

Accept everything about yourself, I mean everything. You are you and that is the beginning and the end, no apologizes, no regrets. -Clark Moustakas

Accept the things to which fate binds you and love the people with whom fate brings you together but do so with all your heart. -Marcus Aurelius

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't. -Erica Jong

How difficult it is for any of us to listen to our own voice or maintain our own beliefs in the presence of others. There is a great need in all of us to be accepted, but you must trust what is unique or odd or different about yourself, even if it is unpopular. -Unknown

I am at home everywhere and no where. I am never a stranger and I never quite belong. -Unknown

It is more easy to be wise for others than for ourselves. -Francois Duc De La Rochefoucauld

In giving advice seek to help, not to please, your friend. -Solon

Just because you are accepted doesn’t mean that you belong. -School Ties

Life is about change, learning to accept yourself, good and bad. -Adrien Paul, Highlander

Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself. -Cicero

Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example. -Francois Duc de La Rouchefoucauld

Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it. -Gordon R. Dickson

Some things you can’t change. They just are. -Unknown

The best way to succeed in life is to act on the advice we give to others. -Anonymous

The only way to forget is to accept and the only way to move on is to look ahead and let the footprints of the past be blown bu the wind of time. -Unknown

We hate to have some people give us advice because we know how badly they need it themselves. -Anonymous

When we ask advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice. -Marquis de LaGrange

You do not need to be loved, not at the cost of yourself. The single relationship that is truly central and crucial in a life is the relationship to the self. Of all the people you will know in a lifetime, you are the only one you will never lose. - Jo Coudert

Unthemed

If you do not learn to hate you will never be lonely enough to love easily nor will you always be brave although it does not grow any easier. Do not pretend to convenience beliefs even when they are righteous. You will never be able to defend your city while shouting.
Remember, our sun is not the most noteworthy star, only the nearest.
Respect whatever pain you bring back from your dreaming, but do not look for new gods in the sea nor in any part of a rainbow.
Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever, only nothing is eternal.
Speak proudly to your children wherever you may find them. Tell them you are the offspring of slaves and your mother was a princess of darkness.
-Unknown

No one can tell what goes on between the person you were and theperson you become. No one can chart that blue and lonely sectionof hell. There are no maps of the change. You just...come outthe other side. Or you don't. -Stephen King, The Stand

Letting Go

Relationships that you have to struggle with never end up working out in the end. The ones that work, they just plain work. Therefore, if it’s not working, let it go. -Unknown

When should you rush into the building, and when should you let it burn? -Unknown

Letting go isn’t about giving up, it’s about accepting that some things just cannot be. -Unknown

Sometimes you can’t go back around. Sometimes, things can’t fit like they used to. -Unknown

Maybe it’s for the best that we hurt each other so much we have no choice to let go. Maybe if we didn’t, we never would. -Unknown

You got to know when to hold them, know when to fold them, know when to walk away, know when to run. -Kenny Rogers, The Gambler

I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken – and I’d rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken pieces as long as I live. -Margaret Mitchell

Some think holding on makes you stronger, other say it’s letting go. -Unknown

Though they might be the best days we will ever know we will have to leave them in the past. -Little Texas, What Might Have Been

Giving up doesn't mean you are weak. It only means that you are strong enough to let go. -Unknown

Let go if there's no reason for holding on. -Unknown

It's hard to hold to something you know would never be yours in any way you could think of. You just have to let go and face the fact that while the good things never last, some don't even start. -Unknown

To let go isn't to forget, not think about or ignore. It doesn't leave feelings of anger, jealousy, or regret. Letting go isn't winning and it isn't losing. It's not about pride and it's not about how you appear, and it's not obsessing or dwelling on the past. Letting go isn't blocking memories or thinking sad thoughts, and it doesn't leave emptiness, hurt or sadness. It's not giving in or giving up. Letting go isn't about loss, and it's not defeat.
To let go is to cherish memories, but to overcome and to move on. It is having an open mind and confidence in the future. Letting go is accepting, it is learning and experiencing and growing. To let go is to be thankful for the experiences that made you laugh, made you cry, and made you grow. It's about all that you have, all that you had, and all that you will soon gain. Letting go is having the courage to accept change, and the strength to keep moving. Letting go is growing up. It is realizing that the heart can sometimes be the most potent remedy. To let go is to open a door, to clear a path and to set yourself free.

Magic

I do believe in magic. I was born and raised in a magic time, in a magic town, among magicians. When I was twelve, the world was my magic lantern, and by its green spirit glow I saw the past, the present, and into the future. We all start out knowing magic. We are born with whirlwinds, forest fires, and comets inside us. We are born able to sing to birds and read the clouds and see our destiny in grains of sand. But then we get the magic educated right out of our souls. We get it churched out, spanked out, washed out, and combed out. We get put in the straight and narrow and told to be responsible. Told to act our age. Told to grow up, for God’s sake. And you know why we’re told that? Because the people doing the telling were afraid of our wilderness and youth, and because the magic we knew made them ashamed and sad at what they allowed to whither in themselves. After you get so far away from it, though, you can’t really get it back. You can have seconds of it. Just seconds of knowing and remembering. When people get all weepy at movies, it’s because in that dark theatre, the golden pool of magic is touched, just briefly. Then they come out into the hard sun of logic and reason again and it dries up, and they’re left feeling a little heartsad and not knowing why. For the briefest of instants, you have stepped into the magic realm. The truth of life is that every year we get farther away from the essence that is born within us. We get shouldered with burdens, some of them good, some of them not so good. Things happen to us. Loved ones die. People get in wrecks, and get crippled. It’s not hard to do, in this world of crazy mazes. Life itself does its best to take that memory of magic away from us. You don’t know its happening until one day you feel like you’ve lost something, but you’re not sure what it is. -Robert McCammon

If you can seen the magic in fairy tales, you can face the future. -Unknown

To the child in you who laughs and plays and jumps on the bed when no one’s around. To the dreamer in you who wishes on pennies and candles, and still knows the words to "star light, star bright, first star I see tonight." To the believer in you who never gives up, who radiates hope, and who makes everyone else believe in the magic of wishing and dreaming. - Unknown

Walk through a dream today with childlike footsteps that only know the limits of a young imagination. Walk through a dream today, until you reach that place inside where wishes are made and magic is born. -Unknown

The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper. -Eden Phillpotts

We think, sometimes, there’s not a dragon left. Not one brave knight, not a single princess gliding through secret forests, enchanting deer and butterflies with her smile. We think, sometimes that ours is an age past frontiers, past adventures. Destiny, it’s way over the horizon; glowing shadows galloped past long ago and gone. What a pleasure to be wrong. Princesses, knights, enchantments, and dragons; mystery and adventure...not only are they here-and-now, they’re all that ever lived on earth. Our century, they changed clothes, of course. Dragons wear government costumes today, and failure suits and disaster outfits. Society’s demons screech, whirl down on us should we life our eyes from the ground, dare we turn right at corners we’ve been told to turn left. So crafty have appearances become that princesses and knights can be hidden from each other, can be hidden from themselves. Yet masters of reality still meet in dreams to tell us that we’ve never lost the shield we need against dragons, that blue-fire voltage arcs through us now to change our world as we wish. Intuition whispers true: we’re not dust, we’re magic. -Richard Bach, The Bridge Across Forever