#acceptance

I have found that the less expectation you put on others, the more happiness you will find with them and yourself. ↗

— K.L. Toth

#acceptance #friendship #happiness #love #peace

There is darkness inside all of us, though mine is more dangerous than most. Still, we all have it—that part of our soul that is irreparably damaged by the very trials and tribulations of life. We are what we are because of it, or perhaps in spite of it. Some use it as a shield to hide behind, others as an excuse to do unconscionable things. But, truly, the darkness is simply a piece of the whole, neither good nor evil unless you make it so. It took a witch, a war, and a voodoo queen to teach me that. ↗

— Jenna Maclaine

#cin-craven #darkness #personal-growth #self-acceptance #vampires

People always did like to talk, didn't they? That's why I call myself a witch now: the Wicked Witch of the West, if you want the full glory of it. As long as people are going to call you a lunatic anyway, why not get the benefit of it? It liberates you from convention. ↗

— Gregory Maguire

#accepting #gossip #liberation #life

Perhaps a wiser eye than hers would be able to read tomorrow in tonight's stars, but where was the fun in that? It was better not to know. Better to be alive in the Here and the Now--in this bright, laughing moment--and let the Hours to come take care of themselves. ↗

— Clive Barker

#future #life #life

You have to accept all sides of yourself – there’s no point fighting them – just learn how to handle them, and return to the positive, balanced being you know you can be, once the winds have blown through. ↗

— Jay Woodman

#balance #balance-of-light-and-dark #balanced-life #positive #life

Acceptance doesn’t mean that life gets better; it just means that my way of living life on life’s terms improves. ↗

— Sharon E. Rainey

#life #life

The truth is, it's really only okay to be yourself if that self is within an accepted range of 'normal'. ↗

— Stacey Kade

#life #normal #reality #the-ghost-and-the-goth #truth

Have a big enough heart to love unconditionally, and a broad enough mind to embrace the differences that make each of us unique. ↗

— D.B. Harrop

#life-lessons #life-philosophy #love #respect-yourself #respecting-others

We're all strange in our own strange way. ↗

— Mark O'Brien

#life #truth #life

What an unilateral life, when from the material of a renunciation, we must fashion something we love. ↗

— Rainer Maria Rilke

#resignation #love