The Body Quotes
I grew up wanting a guitar, my family was very poor. When I was fourteen my mother bought me a Gibson ES 125 thin body. That was a bunch of money in those days - $125.00.
Young bones groan And the rocks below say, "Throw your white body down!" But I'm going to meet the one I love At last
We're wrong if we think we're the only ones struggling with Resistance. Everyone who has a body experiences Resistance.
Family, community, and the realm of the private self - your mind, body, and spirit - are all important sources of the inspiration, support, and ideas we all need to lead the lives we want.
You know, at 35 or at 38 or 40 you really start to see what your body could look like if you just don't do anything all winter long. So that's another motivating factor, our vanity.
A nation has honor precisely as it has fleas - on this or that body. The statesman who talks of honor - unless he means something else, quite different - is a rogue.
If only we correct our eating habits than not only we would have perfect body weight but also we can get rid of most of the diseases.
I happen to be immature, undisciplined, and self-centered, pretty much a little boy in a man's body, although I'd appreciate it if you didn't quote me on that. -Bobby Tom
Hell is not a place, it's a state of mind and body; hell is obsession with a voice, a face, a name.
Even more than comparing society to a family, comparing it to a body makes an authoritarian ordering of society seem inevitable, immutable.
The point is to get a good rhythm, to make it mindless, almost as a daydream. To walk like breathing. To make it what the body wants, what the air wants, what time wants.
The decline of education in North America and I suppose in Western Europe makes it harder to have a common body of references.
I'm much more self-conscious clothed than unclothed. I'm a frustrated Page Three girl. I have no shame about my body.
Our idea of a healthy body is so destabilised that insecure people have come to bolster their own bodies by deeming others - those with fat bodies - less worthy, less capable and less employable.
The insistence that the commercialisation of the body is a fit subject for political discussion and intervention is well overdue.
I drink in his wholeness, the soudness of his body and mind. It runs through me like the morphling they give me in the hospital, dulling the pain of the last weeks.
What does this mean? It means I get to spend the morning having the hair ripped off my body while Peeta sleeps in.
I was told by six doctors over six days that they could start me on full-body chemotherapy. And I said, "If you know where I'm coming from, I'd rather die."
First get rid of the delusion "I am the body," then only will we want real knowledge.
If there is no strength in body and mind, the Atman cannot be realized. First you have to build the body by good nutritious food-then only will the mind be strong.
The body must be properly taken care of. The people who torture their flesh are demoniacal.
When we free ourselves from name and form, especially from a body - when we need no body, good or bad - then only do we escape from bondage.
This idea of body is a simple superstition. It is superstition that makes us happy or unhappy. It is superstition caused by ignorance that makes us feel heat and cold, pain and pleasure.
Jiva (individual soul) is the conscious ruler of this body, in whom the five life principles come into unity, and yet that very Jiva is the Atman, because all is Atman.
According to us, there are three things in the makeup of man. There is the body, there is the mind, and there is the soul.
We become forgetful of the ego when we think of the body as dedicated to the service of others - the body with which most complacently we identify the ego.
In real meditation you forget the body. You may be cut to pieces and not feel it at all. You feel such pleasure in it. You become so light. This perfect rest we will get in meditation.
This body is a combination. It is only a fiction to say that I have one body, you another, and the sun another.
The more you think of yourself as shining immortal spirit, the more eager you will be to be absolutely free of matter, body, and senses. This is the intense desire to be free.
This ego - the less there is of it, the nearer I am to that which I really am: the universal body.
To give up the world is to forget the ego, to know it not at all - living in the body, but not of it.
The root of evil is in the illusion that we are bodies. This, if any, is the original sin.
The "ego" like its correlative "non-ego", is the product of the body, mind etc. The only proof of the existence of the real Self is realisation.
The body is subject to the law of growth and decay, what grows must of necessity decay.
I live in a neighborhood that's really filled with sound - there's a lot of Jamaican auto body shops, and the guys next door play hip hop.