“As a gymnast, you always wear spandex. Being a teenager wearing spandex? It was tough accepting how my body looked, especially if there was any weight gain.” IfsBodyAcceptingToughGainsWeightTeenagerGymnastBeing A TeenagerSpandex Author:Alicia Sacramone
“I have cellulite - and had it even when I was at my absolute thinnest. I'm never not going to have cellulite. People need to just accept that it's there and maybe dress accordingly or use body makeup to cope with it.” PeopleNeedsUseBodyAcceptingAbsolutesDressesMakeupCellulite Author:Holly Madison
“As you learn to accept that the body is transitory, as you watch it with love, but without attachment, the body will develop purity.” BodyAcceptingWatchesBuddhismPurityAttachmentTransitory Author:Frederick Lenz
“Learn to accept the transitory nature of existence of the body and the mind; see eternity in everything, this world, the other worlds, and nirvana.” WorldMindBodyExistenceAcceptingThis WorldEternityIntentionOther WorldsTransitory Author:Frederick Lenz
“There are two types of pain, the one that breaks you and the one that changes you. In the gym, pain is felt as a result of weakness leaving the body. Physical pain is the glue of transformation and the pain of progress. The more you endure the harder it gets to accept the thought of failure.” TwoBodyPainFeltResultsAcceptingBreakProgressTypeWeaknessHarderTransformationEndureLeavingGymGluePhysical Pain Author:Greg Plitt
“I think that the way to have style is to accept where your body is right now, heavier or skinnier, whether you're going to change in the future and dress it as it is. The fact is you can always find clothes. It may be harder for plus sized people, I completely understand that. But I don't believe that it's impossible to dress with style.” PeopleThinkingWayBelieveMayFactsBodyAcceptingImpossibleStyleRight NowClothesHarderDressesDon't BelieveYour BodyPlus Author:Stacy London
“By a persistent effort of will it is possible to change the whole body. The athlete must always keep in mind this concept of change and progression. He must never accept his limitations as being permanent, because they are not.” MindWholeBodyEffortAcceptingConceptsAthleteLimitationPermanentPersistentProgression Author:Emil Zatopek
“It was apparent to me that religion was an invented thing, a wish-fulfillment thing, a fantasy thing. It was much more real, dangerous, to accept that mortality was the end for you as an individual. As an atheist, I don't believe in an afterlife, so if you're thinking of murder, if your subject is murder, then that's a physical act of absolute destruction because you're ending something, a body, that is unique. That person never existed before, will never exist again, will not be karmically recycled, will not go to heaven, therefore I take it seriously.” IfsThinkingBelievePersonsRealEndsBodyIndividualHeavenWishAcceptingFantasySubjectsDangerousUniqueDestructionMurderAbsolutesDon't BelieveAtheistFulfillmentMortalityAfterlifeRecycled Author:David Cronenberg
“Every pleasure or pain has a sort of rivet with which it fastens the soul to the body and pins it down and makes it corporeal, accepting as true whatever the body certifies.” SoulBodyPainPleasureAcceptingDown AndPins Author:Socrates