Nudity is natural but not until a person accepts and loves who they are.
. . . reason accepts no commandments.
No one ever accepts criticism so cheerfully. Neither the man who utters it nor the man who invites it really means it.
Men like the kings and the queens because men are weak! No strong man accepts any king or queen!
I applaud the courage of he who accepts each and every one of the laws of a game he did not invent and was not asked if he wanted to play
Every age, every culture, every custom and tradition has its own character, its own weakness and its own strength, its beauties and cruelties; it accepts certain sufferings as matters of course, puts up patiently with certain evils. Human life is reduced to real suffering, to hell, only when two ages, two cultures and religions overlap
When one does a thing, it appears good, otherwise one would not write it. Only later comes reflection, and one discards or accepts the thing. Time is the best censor, and patience a most excellent teacher.
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. "
How quickly one accepts the incredible if only one sees it enough.
No matter how good or bad we may feel, no matter how up or down we may be, Christ loves us, accepts us, and thinks the world of us.
There are many agreements across the so-called "world religions," at a certain level of abstraction. But when it comes to applying them in concrete situations they may lead to incompatible decisions. As an example, some people think that Christian ideas of sexual modesty suggest that homosexuals should be locked up, some people think that they mean that the churches should recongize gay marriages. But everyone believes in sexual modesty. I think there are universal moral truths, whether or not everyone accepts them. Here's one very low level but important one: it's very bad to torture people.
The self has no boundaries except those it accepts out of ignorance
Approach your own inner life with a loving quality that accepts who you are without trying to change who you are.
The best man of all is he who knows everything himself. Good also the man who accepts another's sound advice; but the man who neither knows himself nor takes to hear what another says, he is no good at all.
The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.
The friend of time doesn't spend all day saying: 'I haven't got time. ' He doesn't fight with time. He accepts it and cherishes it.
The man who accepts opinions because they have been entertained by distinguished people, is a mental snob.
Maturity is achieved when a person accepts life as full of tension.
The cat is the only animal which accepts the comforts but rejects the bondage of domesticity.
A friend accepts us as we are yet helps us to be what we should.