The Body Quotes

Girls who wear certain kind of dresses, who show certain areas of the body, are not going to like my clothes. You can't please everyone.

There are men steady and wise whose body, words and mind are self-controlled. They are the men of supreme self-control.

A mind too vigorous and active, serves only to consume the body to which it is joined.

I'm 5'9" and have the body of an English person that doesn't know how to diet.

Are you ready to stop colluding with a culture that makes so many of us feel physically inadequate? Say goodbye to your inner critic, and take this pledge to be kinder to yourself and others.

You gotta be willing to fail...if you're afraid of failing, you won't get very far.

This is the body you've been given - love what you've got.

I think the traditional explanation is that demons just find someone, they pick on them and try to break down their spirit so they can... take control of their bodies. Why exactly? I don't know.

I am nothing but a corpse now, a body at the bottom of a well.

He kissed her and killed her then dumped her body in the river.

Human beings do metamorphose. They change their identity constantly. However, each new identity thrives on the delusion that it was always in possession of the body it has just conquered.

What is there glorious in the world, that is not the product of labor, either of the body or of the mind?

Nothing is contrived. At night, the clothes should pour like liquid over the body.

Greek dress was in its essence inartistic. Nothing should reveal the body but the body.

Narrow all your interests until the attitude of mind and heart and body is concentration on Jesus Christ.

One great effect of prayer is that it enables the soul to command the body. By obedience I make my body submissive to my soul, but prayer puts my soul in command of my body.

The mind ill at ease, the body suffers also.

The mind grows sicker than the body in contemplation of it's suffering.

The mind is sicker than the sick body; in contemplation of its sufferings it becomes hopeless. [Lat., Corpore sed mens est aegro magis aegra; malique In circumspectu stat sine fine sui.]

A man who says that men are machines may be a great scientist. A man who says he is a machine is 'depersonalized' in psychiatric jargon.

Being embodied as such is no insurance against feelings of hopelessness or meaningslessness. Beyond his body, he still has to know who he is.

The body on the ground is nothing more than a shell, a husk, and I am filled with a sense of peace. Yes, I think. Yes. This is what I want to be. An instrument of mercy, not vengeance.

The more aware a man is of a woman's body, the better. He needs to know he has to tend to a woman. She might not always return the favor, but a man always has to tend to a woman first.

Knowing Myrnin, there could be anything inside, from a body he'd forgotten about to his dirty laundry.

Bruises mapped my body from bumping into tables and tripping over curbs while walking with a book in my hand, my eyes focused on the pages instead of the live space around me.

People are waking up in their homes - without conferences. They're waking up because life is waking them up, not because of some conference called "Body and Soul."

How come I love having an episode of deja vu? It's akin to an out-of-body experience, I would think. It sits with me, happily, begging me to delve into my memory to find its match point.

I always keep a woman's body in mind, accentuating her best features.

I don't think that everything that's popular is necessarily right for every body and so I'd like for girls to be confident enough to make the right choice for themselves and to look unique.

All of my clients have athletic or curvy, healthy bodies.

What do the contours of your body mean, laid out like the lines on a hand, so that I no longer see them except as fate?

What's the benefit of hatha yoga? Physical. What do you need to do hatha yoga? Physical body. That's it. Breathing and spirit is a part of any sport. So that's why hatha yoga can be a sport.

The body has to be looked after: one has to be very caring about the body and very loving to the body. And then, its very spontaneity purifies it, makes it holy.

Medicine heals the body, meditation heals the soul. Medicine is outwardly, meditation is inwardly. And man is whole only when medicine and meditation are together in deep harmony.

Meditation is the breath of your soul. Just as breathing is the life of the body, meditation is the life of the soul.

We exist solely because we have a body and a mind ? a mind that arises out of the body. If this were true, we would cease to exist after our body was gone.

Moving from love, not fear - a beautiful idea, especially when applied literally to the body.

Meditation is neither of the body nor of the mind, but belongs to the third within you—your being.

You have to be whole: rich in the body, rich in science; rich in meditation, rich in consciousness.

If you are unconscious, unaware, you are living only in the body, the mortal. And a person who lives for the body, in the body, and only for the body, lives in sin.

"Never speak of me in the past tense". My presence here will be many times greater without the burden of my tortured body.

The world proceeds from the same spirit as the body of man. It is a remoter and inferior incarnation of God, a projection of God in the unconscious.

A garden is like those pernicious machineries which catch a man's coat-skirt or his hand, and draw in his arm, his leg , and his whole body to irresistible destruction.

[on Thoreau:] For not a particle of respect had he to the opinions of any man or body of men, but homage solely to truth itself.

The consciousness in each man is a sliding scale, which identifies him now with the First Cause, and now with the flesh of his body; life above life, in infinite degrees.

To the body and mind which have been cramped by noxious work or company, nature is medicinal and restores their tone.

Philanthropic and religious bodies do not commonly make their executive officers out of saints.

Man is the broken giant, and in all his weakness both his body and his mind are invigorated by habits of conversation with nature.

When a natural king becomes a titular king, every body is pleased and satisfied.

Is all literature eavesdropping, and all art Chinese imitation? our life a custom, and our body borrowed, like a beggar’s dinner, from a hundred charities?