The Body Quotes

It is easy now to communicate with people through abstraction, and particularly so in sculpture. Since the whole body reacts to its presence, people become themselves a living part of the whole.

I finally realized that no one is perfect and that I like the fact that I look different and don't have the perfect body. No one does!

I'd the upbringing a nun would envy. Until I was fifteen I was more familiar with Africa than my own body.

I never knew a man escape failures, in either mind or body, who worked seven days in a week.

There are moments when the human body can overcome things you would never expect.

Watching birds has become part of my daily meditation affirming my connection to the earth body.

Choose rather to be strong of soul than strong of body.

I am a middle-aged opera queen in loafers that makes out I am a 16 year old death metal skater... It's all fake! My hair is fake, my body is fake and my teeth are kind of fake

As we wash our body so we should wash destiny, change life as we change clothes.

Human beings, on the contrary, have a soul which lives forever, lives after the body has been turned to dust. It rises up through the clear, pure air beyond the glittering stars.

Inspiration is hogwash. My work comes directly out of my loves and hates. Muses don't whisper in my ear, and ideas don't flow over my body like a cool rain.

For the recuperation of body and mind, there is nothing better than natural therapy - sand, sunshine and surf.

Darts players are probably a lot fitter than most footballers in overall body strength.

Bodies have their own light which they consume to live: they burn, they are not lit from the outside.

To ask women to become unnaturally thin is to ask them to relinquish their sexuality.

Even so husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.

With body, mind, and spirit functioning perfectly as a coordinated whole, what else could reasonably be expected other than an active, alert, disciplined person?

For me, beauty is a physical sensation, something we feel with our whole body. It is not the result of judgement. We do not arrive at it by way of rules. We either feel beauty or we don't.

The eye identifies itself not with the body it belongs to but with the object of its attention.

In the face of impermanence, if your next thought is good, this is what we call the realization body.

Long after you’ve forgotten someone’s voice, you can still remember the sound of their happiness or their sadness. You can feel it in your body.

When sleep leaves the body like smoke and man, sated with secrets, drives the overworked nag of quarrel out of its stall, then the fire-breathing union begins anew . . .

The catholic church has a lot more money than any Colombian cartel and they leave a lot more bodies in their wake.

The rhythm of my body is the same as my mother tongue. It is in this rhythm where I find sanctity, that I can return to my mother who is everywhere in the universe.

I was a daydreamer as a kid. I want to act because of whatever artistic bone is in my body. I want to explore what it is to be alive. I just want to make good sh-t.

Freeing the body inevitably leads to freeing the heart.

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.

When we feel happy and peaceful, our happiness and peace radiates around us, and others can enjoy it as well. This is called 'the enjoyment of others of our body of bliss'.

I see the invisible spirits, where demons still find it livable. I need a hug to hold my soul inside my body.

Here in this body are the sacred rivers, here are the sun and moon, as well as the pilgrimage places. I have not encountered another temple as blissful as my own body

Love is the greatest power and it is, if natural, the highest 'invisible food' from the infinite for soul and body.

I can tell you that anything that happens in the physical body will happen in the pattern of the energy fields first.

There should be no distasteful tasks in one's life. If you just hate to do a thing, that hatred for it develops body-destructive toxins, and you become fatigued very soon.

Silk does for the body what diamonds do for the hand.

Scientific knowledge is a body of statements of varying degrees of certainty -- some most unsure, some nearly sure, none absolutely certain.

Just one living cell in the human body is, more complex than New York City.

The body is seen by the mind, but the mind is seen by what?

Your name or your body, what is dearer? Your body or your wealth, what is worthier?

Your soul will be dead even before your body: fear nothing further.

If Christians cannot extend grace through faithful presence within the body of believers, they will not be able to extend grace to those outside.

Ideas come from everything

Women's bodies have their own wisdom, and a system of birth refined over 100,000 generations is not so easily overpowered.

Every time a champion makes a decision they have a chance to learn something new, regardless of the outcome.

The people and successes in your life mirror your beliefs.

The language of my love does not belong to human language, my human body does not touch the flesh of my love.

In this world everything changes except good deeds and bad deeds; these follow you as the shadow follows the body.

When I get involved, I give it my heart, I mean my mind, my soul, my body: I mean every part. But if it doesn't work out, yo, it just doesn't. It wasn't meant to be, you know, it just wasn't.

Music is a mantra that soothes the soul...something our body has to have. It's important to understand the power of music.

The magnitude of the atomic weight determines the character of the element, just as the magnitude of the molecule determines the character of a compound body.

I finally have the body I want. It’s easy, actually, you just have to want a really shitty body.