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#1

“Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

tags: acceptance, inspiration, inspirational, smart, understanding, wise

4139 likes

#2

“Some lose all mind and become soul,insane.
some lose all soul and become mind, intellectual.
some lose both and become accepted”
― Charles Bukowski

3751 likes

#3

“For after all, the best thing one can do when it is raining is let it rain.”
― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

tags: acceptance, contentment, raining

1663 likes

#4

“When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.”
― Madeleine L'Engle

tags: vulnerability

1060 likes

#5

“What is hardest to accept about the passage of time is that the people who once mattered the most to us wind up in parentheses.”
― John Irving, The Cider House Rules

tags: living, sad

634 likes

#6

“Love isn't a state of perfect caring. It is an active noun like struggle. To love someone is to strive to accept that person exactly the way he or she is, right here and now.”
― Fred Rogers, The World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember

993 likes

#7

“God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.”
― Reinhold Niebuhr

tags: inspirational, serenity-prayer

606 likes

#8

“And I think that you do not understand that sometimes the only choice is between acceptance and madness.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

388 likes

#9

“One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: creative-process, creativity, inspirational, mental-illness, outsider, self-discovery

1291 likes

#10

“Having waited my entire life to get an award for something, anything...I now get awards all the time for being mentally ill. It’s better than being bad at being insane, right? How tragic would it be to be runner-up for Bipolar Woman of the Year?”
― Carrie Fisher, Wishful Drinking

51 likes

#11

“No story lives unless someone wants to listen. So thank you, all of you.”
― J.K. Rowling

tags: harry-potter, j-k-rowling, story

167 likes

#12

“Never tickle a sleeping dragon.”
― J.K. Rowling

tags: harry-potter

65 likes

#13

“Nothing is so aggravating as calmness.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

tags: satyagraha, serenity

214 likes

#14

“There ain't no way you can hold onto something that wants to go, you understand? You can only love what you got while you got it.”
― Kate DiCamillo, Because of Winn-Dixie

tags: leaving, letting-go, love, loving, separating, separation

1453 likes

#15

“The day I understood everything, was the day I stopped trying to figure everything out. The day I knew peace was the day I let everything go.”
― C. JoyBell C.

tags: inspirational-life, letting-go, life-and-living, peace

667 likes

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