167 Body Acceptance Quotes

Following is our list of body acceptance quotations and slogans full of insightful wisdom and perspective about what you accept.

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Famous Body Acceptance Quotes

Each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms. — Gloria Steinem

Don't compare yourself with someone else's version of happy or thin. Accepting yourself burns the most calories. — Caroline Rhea

Beauty is about being comfortable in your own skin. It's about knowing and accepting who you are. — Ellen DeGeneres

Make peace with your body, it's not manmade, there are no flaws, there are no mistakes. — Warsan Shire

Self-acceptance is my refusal to be in an adversarial relationship to myself. — Nathaniel Branden

The moment you accept yourself, you become beautiful. — Osho

Standards of beauty are arbitrary. Body shame exists only to the extent that our physiques don't match our own beliefs about how we should look. — Martha Beck

Acceptance is the spiritual hammock. — Tim Berners-Lee

There’s no need to glamorize one body type and slam another. We need to stop this absurd hatred towards bodies for being different sizes. It doesn’t help anyone and it’s getting old. — Jennie Runk

Loving everything about yourself - even the 'unacceptable' - is an act of personal power. It is the beginning of healing. — Christiane Northrup

I am always being asked to gain or lose weight, but I am at a point now where I don't care anymore. I love my body, I love my super-hourglass shape and I love showing it off. — Ashley Graham

To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself. — Nhat Hanh

There is no wrong way to have a body. — Hanne Blank

Love yourself just as you are. — Melody Beattie

I'm not ashamed of what I am and that I have curves and that I'm thick. I like my body. — Alicia Keys

Short Body Acceptance Quotes

  • You don't have to have a thigh gap to be beautiful. It is possible to love your body the way it is. — Demi Lovato
  • When you accept yourself, the Universe accepts you. — Lao Tzu
  • Accept who you are; and revel in it. — Mitch Albom
  • There's no freedom like the freedom that comes from accepting yourself. — Camila Cabello
  • Change is possible, but it must start with self-acceptance. — Alexander Lowen
  • You don't need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself. — Bindi Irwin
  • I hope they look at me and think, 'That lady looks like she accepts herself'. — Tracee Ellis Ross
  • I am obsessed with becoming a woman comfortable in her skin. — Sandra Cisneros
  • In deep self acceptance, grows a compassionate understanding. — Sayings

Body Acceptance Image Quotes

Body acceptance quote It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

How Do You Respond To A Quotes

It's not fun to get out of bed early in the morning. When the alarm goes off, it doesn't sing you a song: it hits you in the head with a baseball bat. So how do you respond to that? Do you crawl underneath your covers and hide? Or do you get up, get aggressive, and attack the day? — Jocko Willink

Kids did really well in their A levels, how do we respond? 'A Levels are getting easier, in my day you had to do fifty questions in a minute, if you got one wrong, they killed your dad! — Russell Howard

Your life is a gift and how you respond to it - what you do with it matters. That's where I start. — Rob Bell

Body acceptance quote Accept both compliments and criticism. It takes both sun and rain for a flower to grow.
Accept both compliments and criticism. It takes both sun and rain for a flower to grow.

The first thing you do when you sit down at the computer: If you're an artist, a leader or someone seeking to make a difference, the first thing you do should be to lay tracks to accomplish your goals, not to hear how others have reacted/ responded/ insisted to what happened yesterday. — Seth Godin

People respond in accordance to how you relate to them. If you approach them on the basis of violence, that's how they'll react. But if you say, 'We want peace, we want stability,' we can then do a lot of things that will contribute towards the progress of our society. — Nelson Mandela

To me, a lot of what makes a good actor is not what a teacher tells you to do but how you respond when youre on your own. — Glenne Headly

Body acceptance quote Just as the water reflects the stars and the moon, the body reflects the mind and soul.
Just as the water reflects the stars and the moon, the body reflects the mind and soul.

I complain to one of my fellow servers that I don't understand how she can go so long without food. "Well, I don't understand how you can go so long without a cigarette," she responds in a tone of reproach. Because work is what you do for others; smoking is what you do for yourself. — Barbara Ehrenreich

Well, you can’t control what they do, but you can control how you respond to it…whether you allow it to drive you crazy, or occupy all of your thoughts, or whether you note what they’re doing, consider it, and make a conscious decision as to how much you’ll let it affect you — Jennifer Weiner

What You Accept Quotes

Be a free thinker and don't accept everything you hear as truth. Be critical and evaluate what you believe in. — Aristotle

A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow. — William Shakespeare

Once you accept you are being judged by people who have less knowledge than yourself, then what's it worth? — Marco Pierre White

Body acceptance quote Your naked body should only belong to those who fall in love with your naked soul.
Your naked body should only belong to those who fall in love with your naked soul.

If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however, if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Your subconscious mind does not argue with you. It accepts what your conscious mind decrees. If you say, "I can't afford it," your subconscious mind works to make it true. Select a better thought. Decree, "I'll buy it. I accept it in my mind." — Joseph Murphy

You're going to come across a lot of shitty band, and a lot of shitty people. And if anyone of those people call you names beacause of what you look like or they don't accept you for who you are, I want you to look right at that motherf*****, stick up your middle finger, and scream F*** YOU! — Gerard Way

Body acceptance quote Accept what is. Let go what was. Have faith in what will be.
Accept what is. Let go what was. Have faith in what will be.

I not only think but also look and study things carefully. When I travel around, I look at things carefully, make comparisons of what I see. I don't accept things at face value, you cannot trust what you hear or see. Don't jump to conclusions without thinking. — Mahathir Mohamad

Above all trust in the slow work of God. Only God could say what this new spirit gradually forming within you will be. Give our Lord the benefit of believing that His hand is leading you, and accept the anxiety of feeling yourself in suspense and incomplete. — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

If you think for one second no one knows what you've been going through; be accepting of the fact that you are wrong, that the long drawn and heavy breaths of despair have at times been felt by everyone - that pain is part of the human condition and that alone makes you a legion. — Shane Koyczan

I've said consistently that no employer ever really accepts a union. They tolerate the unions. The very minute they can get a pool of unemployment they'll challenge the unions and try to get back what they call managements prerogatives, meaning hire, fire, pay what you want. — Jimmy Hoffa

Deep Quotes

Dare to declare who you are. It is not far from the shores of silence to the boundaries of speech. The path is not long, but the way is deep. You must not only walk there, you must be prepared to leap. — Hildegard of Bingen

Great sea captains are made in rough waters and deep seas. — Kathryn Kuhlman

True love is not a strong, fiery, impetuous passion. It is, on the contrary, an element calm and deep. It looks beyond mere externals, and is attracted by qualities alone. It is wise and discriminating, and its devotion is real and abiding. — Ellen G. White

Body acceptance quote Accept what is, let go of what was, and have faith in what will be.
Accept what is, let go of what was, and have faith in what will be.

One thing about championship teams is that they're resilient. No matter what is thrown at them, no matter how deep the hole, they find a way to bounce back and overcome adversity. — Nick Saban

Take a deep breath, listen to your favorite song and realize everything is gonna be okay, nothing is permanent. — Camila Cabello

If you let a person talk long enough you'll hear their true intentions. Listen twice, speak once. — Tupac Shakur

Body acceptance quote Accept no one's definition of your life, define yourself.
Accept no one's definition of your life, define yourself.

If you think down, you will go down. If you think up, you will go up. You’ll always travel in the direction of your thinking. — T. D. Jakes

The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do. - Michael Porter

The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do. — Michael Porter

As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives. — Henry David Thoreau

An orchid in a deep forest sends out its fragrance even if no one is around to appreciate it. — Confucius

Will You Accept Me Quotes

Of course I’ll hurt you. Of course you’ll hurt me. Of course we will hurt each other. But this is the very condition of existence. To become spring, means accepting the risk of winter. To become presence, means accepting the risk of absence. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Give me, mother, luck at my birth, then throw me if you will on the rubbish heap. — Bulgarian Proverbs

For me, it always goes back to something I learned in basketball. There's winning and there's losing, and in life you have to know they both will happen. But what's never been acceptable to me is quitting. — Magic Johnson

Body acceptance quote A lie doesn't become truth, wrong doesn't become right, and evil doesnt' become good, just because i
A lie doesn't become truth, wrong doesn't become right, and evil doesnt' become good, just because it's accepted by a majority.

And now let me address all of you, high and low, rich and poor, one with another, to accept of mercy and grace while it is offered to you; Now is the accepted time, now is the day of salvation; and will you not accept it, now it is offered unto you? — George Whitefield

I was talking to Jesus, and I said, Jesus, I feel like no one will ever accept me. And Jesus looked at me and said, You know what my theory is? Accept me or go to hell. — Gilbert Gottfried

If Germany, my beloved fatherland, of whom you know I am proud, will not accept me, then must I, in the name of God, again make France or England richer by one capable German - and to the shame of the German nation. — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Body acceptance quote If you live for people's acceptance, you will die from their rejection.
If you live for people's acceptance, you will die from their rejection.

To men and women everywhere Jesus says, "Come unto me, and I will give you rest." The rest He offers is the rest of meekness, the blessed relief which comes when we accept ourselves for what we are and cease to pretend. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

I've gotten death threats, yes. I have. I think anytime you shine a spotlight on homosexuality or minorities and you try and say they are as normal or as worthy as acceptance as others, the people who are on the fringe don't like that and they will come after you. And they have come after me. — Ryan Murphy

If you sit down with me, I guarantee I will accept any terms you offer for a contract. — David O. Selznick

You can try reading books that will help you be a leader, like Marshall Rosenberg and Thich Nhat Hanh. Be very humble and say, "I don't know why. I don't feel qualified, but I accept this role that you gave me, and so help me." — Sandra Cisneros

Self Acceptance Quotes

The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change. — Carl Rogers

A positive self image and healthy self esteem is based on approval, acceptance and recognition from others; but also upon actual accomplishments, achievements and success upon the realistic self confidence which ensues. — Abraham Maslow

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. — Arthur Schopenhauer

Body acceptance quote The moment you accept what troubles you've been given, the door will open.
The moment you accept what troubles you've been given, the door will open.

Love is acceptance. When you love someone . . . you take them into your heart, and that is surely why it hurts so much when we lose someone we love, because we lose a part of ourselves. — Andrew the Apostle

Health, wealth, beauty, and genius are not created; they are only manifested by the arrangement of your mind-that is, by your concept of yourself, and your concept of yourself is all that you accept and consent to as true. — Neville Goddard

We, as human beings, must be willing to accept people who are different from ourselves. — Barbara Jordan

Wanting to be someone else is a waste of who you are — Kurt Cobain

The rose does best as a rose. Lilies make the best lilies. And look! You - the best you around! — Rumi

When you can completely love your ego unconditionally and accept it as part of how you express in this life, you'll no longer have a problem with it. It won't impede your growth - on the contrary, it will be an asset. — Anita Moorjani

Nothing destroys self-worth, self-acceptance and self-love faster than denying what you feel. Without feelings, you would not know where you are in life. Nor would you know what areas you need to work on. Honor your feelings. Allow yourself to feel them. — Iyanla Vanzant

Body Image Quotes

To all the girls that think you’re fat because you’re not a size zero, you’re the beautiful one, its society who’s ugly. — Marilyn Monroe

I know my curves are sexy and I want everyone else to know that theirs are too. There is no reason to hide and every reason to flaunt. — Ashley Graham

The naked female body is treated so weirdly in society. It's like people are constantly begging to see it, but once they do, someone's a hoe. — Lena Horne

Tell the image makers and magazine sellers and the plastic surgeons that you are not afraid. That what you fear the most is the death of imagination and originality and metaphor and passion. Then be bold and LOVE YOUR BODY. STOP FIXING IT. It was never broken. — Marion Woodman

What makes you different or weird, that's your strength. - Meryl Streep

What makes you different or weird, that's your strength. — Meryl Streep

Why do ppl think shredded abs = health? It you are grumpy, fatigued, & have a bad relationship with food but have abs are you truly healthy? — Layne Norton

If tomorrow, women woke up and decided they really liked their bodies, just think how many industries would go out of business. — Gail Dines

Think highly of yourself because the world takes you at your own estimate. - Kurt Hahn

Think highly of yourself because the world takes you at your own estimate. — Kurt Hahn

The female body is something that's so beautiful. I wish women would be proud of their bodies and not diss other women for being proud of theirs. — Christina Aguilera

Never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. People will take you very much at your own reckoning. — Anthony Trollope

Love And Acceptance Quotes

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance. — Brian Tracy

You can't go to Heaven hating somebody. Forgive now. Be compassionate now. Be patient now. Be grateful now. Love Jesus and Mary now. Accept God's will now. — Mother Angelica

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

My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return. — Maya Angelou

Love yourself-accept yourself-forgive yourself-and be good to yourself, because without you the rest of us are without a source of many wonderful things. — Leo Buscaglia

She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love. Only she tried twice and failed twice to find somebody not just strong enough to deserve it, earn it, match it, but even brave enough to accept it. — William Faulkner

There is someone that I love even though I don't approve of what he does. There is someone I accept though some of his thoughts and actions revolt me. There is someone I forgive though he hurts the people I love the most. That person is......me. — C. S. Lewis

My mission, should I choose to accept it, is to find peace with exactly who and what I am. To take pride in my thoughts, my appearance, my talents, my flaws and to stop this incessant worrying that I can’t be loved as I am. — Anais Nin

Spare yourself from seeking love, approval, or appreciation-from anyone. And watch what happens in reality, just for fun. — Byron Katie

Physical strength (hard work), mental strength (perseverance) and spiritual strength (love & acceptance) are the keys to continuous growth. — Rickson Gracie

Body Positive Quotes

What is it you want to change? Your hair, your face, your body? Why? For God is in love with all those things and he might weep when they are gone. — St. Catherine of Siena

If you only walk on sunny days you'll never reach your destination. — Paulo Coelho

Beginners must master low stance and posture, natural body positions are for the advanced. — Gichin Funakoshi

There is no absolute up or down, as Aristotle taught; no absolute position in space; but the position of a body is relative to that of other bodies. Everywhere there is incessant relative change in position throughout the universe, and the observer is always at the center of things. — Giordano Bruno

Most traditional methods of working on oneself are mostly pain centered. People get to repeat over and over their painful emotions without knowing how to use the body's own inherently positive direction and force. — Eugene Gendlin

The world doesn't really need more people who can bend their bodies into amazing positions. What it needs are kinder, more compassionate, generous people. — Donna Farhi

The greatest discovery in life is to discover that our essential nature does not share the limits nor the destiny of the body and mind. — Rupert Spira

You have to train your brain to be positive just like you work out your body. — Shawn Achor

Even if it has not been your habit throughout your life so far, I recommend that you learn to think positively about your body. — Ina May Gaskin

Yesterday evening I received a call that a person had located a body and the investigators from SDSD Homicide Division described our beloved mother, Sally Estabrook. Thank you all for your prayers, your good thoughts, and positive vibes. — Dave Mustaine

Healthy Body Image Quotes

A cultural fixation on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty but an obsession about female obedience. — Naomi Wolf

I have learned more and more to enjoy my body when I have a few extra pounds on, just being more voluptuous. — Fergie

I might have a little bit of cellulite. I might not be toned everywhere. I might struggle in this area or that. But accepting that just empowers me. — Kim Kardashian

Confidence is sexy! I'm comfortable with my body and not afraid to show it off — Sofia Vergara

But then I thought, ‘I see transsexuals and they want healthy parts of their body removed in order to adjust to their idealized body image,' and so I think that was the connection for me. I saw that people wanted to have their limbs off with equally as much degree of obsession and need.” — Julie Bindel

To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself. — Simone de Beauvoir

I don’t really care what I look like that much, and I think women out there should just be happy with the way they look. They shouldn’t really try to conform to any kind of stereotype. Just be happy and hopefully healthy. — Rebel Wilson

It's incredibly difficult to keep a healthy body image in this business. — Courtney Thorne Smith

Healthy body image is not something that youre going to learn from fashion magazines. — Erin Heatherton

Girls see enough of this body that we can't imitate, that we'll never be able to obtain, these unrealistic expectations...it's better to look strong and healthy... — Jennifer Lawrence

Acceptance Of Others Quotes

If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome. — Michael Jordan

Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything alone. — Ferdinand E. Marcos

My main point here is that if you are the child of God and God is a part of you, the in your imagination God suppose to look like you. And when you accept a picture of the deity assigned to you by another people, you become the spiritual prisoners of that other people. — John Henrik Clarke

I refuse to accept other people's ideas of happiness for me. As if there's a 'one size fits all' standard for happiness. — Kanye West

Our worst fault is our preoccupation with the faults of others. — Kahlil Gibran

There can be no black-white unity until there is first some black unity... We cannot think of uniting with others, until after we have first united among ourselves. We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves. — Malcolm X

Effective leaders help others to understand the necessity of change and to accept a common vision of the desired outcome. — John P. Kotter

Our religion has defined a position for women (in society): motherhood. Some people can understand this, while others can't. You cannot explain this to feminists because they don't accept the concept of motherhood. — Sayings

There are days when we can bring before God...laughter of joy and gratitude. There will be other days when we can only muster a bitter, angry complaint. Be confident that God will accept whatever we lift up before him, and he will make it serve his purpose and our good. — Gardner C. Taylor

An artist can show things that other people are terrified of expressing. - Louise Bourgeois

An artist can show things that other people are terrified of expressing. — Louise Bourgeois

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More Body Acceptance Quotes

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. — Greg Plitt

For women... bras, panties, bathing suits, and other stereotypical gear are visual reminders of a commercial, idealized feminine image that our real and diverse female bodies can't possibly fit. Without these visual references, each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms. We stop being comparatives. We begin to be unique. — Gloria Steinem

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. — Alicia Sacramone

Crying purifies and cleanses. I once read about a scientific experiment which demonstrated that there are 38 toxic chemicals in a tear of sadness, while only one toxin exists in a tear of joy. As you cry in sadness, fear, or confusion, you cleanse the body and spirit of toxins which cloud the mind and prevent it from accepting the truth. — Iyanla Vanzant

Growing up, I never accepted my curves, but when I got the opportunity to become a plus size model, I was able to appreciate my voluptuous body and love myself, not only on the outside, but on the inside. — Hayley Hasselhoff

This body is yours. No one can ever take it from you, if only you will accept yourself, claim it again--your arms, your spine, your ribs, the small of your back. It's all yours. All this bounty, all this beauty, all this strength and grace is yours. This garden is yours. Take it back. Take it back. — Jean Hegland

My smile is my favorite part of my body. I think a smile can make your whole body. — Serena Williams

Work on your stony qualities and become resplendent like the ruby. Practice self-denial and accept difficulty. Always see infinite life in letting the self die. Your stoniness will decrease; your ruby nature will grow. The signs of self-existence will leave your body, and ecstasy will take you over. — Rumi

Simply see that you are at the center of the universe, and accept all things and beings as parts of your infinite body. When you perceive that an act done to another is done to yourself, you have understood the great truth. — Lao Tzu

We are mindful of desire when we experience it with an embodied awareness, recognizing the sensations and thoughts of wanting as arising and passing phenomena. While this isn't easy, as we cultivate the clear seeing and compassion of Radical Acceptance, we discover we can open fully to this natural force, and remain free in its midst. — Tara Brach

I am not this body. I am in this body, and this is part of my incarnation and I honor it but that isn't who I am. — Ram Dass

I accept my body. I accept how I am and make the best of what I am given. — Kate Winslet

The mind can assert anything and pretend it has proved it. My beliefs I test on my body, on my intuitional consciousness, and when I get a response there, then I accept. — D. H. Lawrence

I have made a contract with my body. It has promised to accept harsh treatment from me on earth, and I have promised that it shall receive eternal rest in heaven. — Peter of Alcantara

I'm not going to sacrifice my mental health to have the perfect body. — Demi Lovato

My limbs work, so I'm not going to complain about the way my body is shaped. — Drew Barrymore

Be the Inner Spirit that is you. And relish in the creative moment. But don't try to hold to anything that has been created in the moment - including your body. And when you find that place, there is peace beyond description. Because then you accept that you are the eternal being that you are. — Esther Hicks

Weight used to be an issue. I was always fat as a child. And everyone used to tell me, Youve got such a pretty face; why dont you lose some weight? Over the years Ive realised that my body is a certain type, and I have learned to accept it. — Vidya Balan

Humility is the conscious awareness and acceptance of eternity as your body. — Frederick Lenz

What you see is the bread and the chalice; that is what your own eyes report to you. But what your faith obliges you to accept is that the bread is the body of Christ and the chalice is the blood of Christ. This has been said very briefly, which may perhaps be sufficient for faith; yet faith does not desire instruction — Saint Augustine

When one is pretending the entire body revolts. — Anais Nin

Words should not seek to please, to hide the wounds in our bodies, or the shameful moments in our lives. They may hurt, give us pain, but they can also provoke us to question what we have accepted for thousands of years. — Nawal El Saadawi

The message we give our bodies - one of irritation or acceptance - is the message to which our bodies will answer. — Debbie Shapiro

How can one be compelled to accept slavery? I simply refuse to do the master's bidding. He may torture me, break my bones to atoms and even kill me. He will then have my dead body, not my obedience. Ultimately, therefore, it is I who am the victor and not he, for he has failed in getting me to do what he wanted done. — Mahatma Gandhi

In this country, intellectual cowardice is the worst enemy a writer or journalist has to face ... Unpopular ideas can be silenced, and incovenient facts kept dark, without the need for any official ban ... At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of iedas which it is assumed that all right-thinking people will accept without question. — George Orwell

Surrender means accepting this moment, this body, and this life with open arms. Surrender involves getting out of your own way and living in accord with a higher will, expressed as the wisdom of the heart. Far more than passive acceptance, surrender uses every challenge as a means of spiritual growth and expanded awareness. — Dan Millman

I accept my body. I accept how I am and make the best of what I am given. Children orientate towards examples. That's why I talk solely positive about my body in front of my daughter. — Kate Winslet

To repress rebellion is to maintain the status quo, a condition which binds the mortal creature in a state of intellectual or physical slavery. But it is impossible to chain man merely by slaving his body; the mind also must be held, and to accomplish this, fear is the accepted weapon. The common man must fear life, fear death, fear God, fear the Devil, and fear most the overlords, the keepers of his destiny. — Manly Hall

If you accept the belief that baptism incorporates us in the mystical body of Christ, into the divine DNA, then you might say that the Holy Spirit is present in each of us, and thus we have the capacity for the fullness of redemption, of transformation. — Thomas Keating

As you learn to accept that the body is transitory, as you watch it with love, but without attachment, the body will develop purity. — Frederick Lenz

I naturally have an athletic build, thick legs yet a lean upper body. I filled out much later than all my classmates, and I thank God for it now. I had to learn to fix what I can and accept what I cannot fix...That's probably the hardest thing. — Keri Hilson

You possess other people's...bodies." He accepted that statement with a nod. "Do you want to possess my body?" "I want to do a lot of things to your body, but that's not one of them. — Becca Fitzpatrick

One might accept death reasoningly, with every aspect of the conscious mind, but the body was a brute beast that knew nothing of reason. — Isaac Asimov

The process of radical acceptance is to accept that a story has appeared in the mind, and then deepen the attention to see clearly what's happening in the body, to regard those feelings and sensations with kindness and acceptance, and to notice how they come and go. — Tara Brach

Why is everything that's good for our bodies, our communities, our world, and our planet called the 'alternative'? That means everything bad for us is the accepted norm. — Julia Hill

I prefer big Oprah. I know Oprah wants to be skinny Oprah, but her head is too gigantic to fit on a skinny body. She has to accept that, like Kirstie Alley, she was meant to be... ahm... voluptuous! — Kathy Griffin

The human body is not obscene, sexuality is not obscene. But it [pornography] is not sex, it is violence. It encourages acceptance of the idea that violence is a legitimate part of sexuality. — Gloria Steinem

Just because people are calling you skinny doesn't mean I'm like, 'Yay!' No! You're telling me I don't look right. This is me, this is my body - I have accepted it. — Shenae Grimes

My mom was very much like 'Love your body, love yourself, run around naked....' Whatever we wanted to do, it was very accepting. — Tallulah Belle Willis

...Never tell a ticket agent, "As a matter of fact, I DID accept items from persons unknown to me! A nice man in a chadar gave me this awesome luggage freshener with a clock attached!" Federal regulations require them to have no idea you're joking as they riddle your body with bullets. — Seanbaby

When the blackberries hang swollen in the woods, in the brambles nobody owns, I spend all day among the high branches, reaching my ripped arms, thinking of nothing, cramming the black honey of summer into my mouth; all day my body accepts what it is. In the dark creeks that run by there is this thick paw of my life darting among the black bells, the leaves; there is this happy tongue. — Mary Oliver

We said that a single injustice, a single crime, a single illegality, particularly if it is officially recorded, confirmed, a single wrong to humanity, a single wrong to justice and to right, particularly if it is universally, legally, nationally, commodiously accepted, that a single crime shatters and is sufficient to shatter the whole social pact, the whole social contract, that a single legal crime, a single dishonorable act will bring about the loss of ones honor, the dishonor of a whole people. It is a touch of gangrene that corrupts the entire body. — Charles Peguy

In Conclusion

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