The Body Quotes

We have fallen in love with the body. That's that thing that looks back at us from the mirror. That's the repository of that lovely identity that you keep chasing all your life.

I put on your sequined ball gown and I checked the mirror there. Why, I looked like Cindy Crawford, but with much more body hair.

A man by tumbling his thoughts, and forming them into expressions, gives them a new fermentation, which works them into a finer body.

I could tell you all the medical terminology,' She says. 'But what finally happened is his heart got to big for his body'

I am a Body-for-LIFE Challenge 2000 Winner. "Winners finish and finishers win."

If the mind is tranquil and occupied with positive thoughts, the body will not easily fall prey to disease

The gesture is the thing truly expressive of the individual - as we think so will we act.

I want women to have access to safe healthcare and be in control of their own bodies. I am a feminist. Everyone should be a feminist.

The body of the earth is of the nature of a fish... because it draws water as its breath instead of air.

Gin a body meet a body Coming thro' the rye, Gin a body kiss a body— Need a body cry?

The body is the doorway to the timeless, because the body is always where we are and always in the present moment.

I think your body is just a little bit stronger after pregnancy.

I went from really hating my body, to disliking it, to accepting it but not exactly liking it, then accepting it and liking it, and now I love it.

One cannot understand the rhythms and meanings of the outer world until one has mastered the dialects of the body.

Wander at will, Day after day,-- Wander away, Wandering still-- Soul that canst soar! Body may slumber: Body shall cumber Soul-flight no more.

Words and action in movies are the spirit or the mind. And these days the body is almost completely forgotten. In the beginning the body - nature - was more part of the action.

Habits are where our lives and careers and bodies are made.

Even sickness becomes an experience that we pass through in happiness because our happiness is not dependent upon how our body feels, but how our spirit feels.

Eleven times Jesus died on the cross, Eleven times falls down a body thrown upward, Eleven times also I abandon the logical flow of thought.

It happens very rarely, but when it happens it's worth waiting for, that the instrument becomes part of your body.

Above all, faith is grounded in one's body, in one's humanity, and in one's animal nature. It is an biological phenomenon and not a psychic creation

Put on light-coloured clothes and some perfume, take care of your body and do everything you can to fight against the forces of darkness. It is not an easy struggle, but it is worthwhile.

We completely deny the existence of a self-existent I, or a permanent, independent soul. Every aspect of your body and mind is impermanent: changing, changing, changing.

When I feel like my body is exhausted, I focus on making my fifth Olympic team so I can push through it.

It is not I who become addicted, it is my body.

Cowards are scared with threatenings; boys are whipped into confession; but a steady mind acts of itself, ne'er asks the body counsel.

Solemnity is a device of the body to hide the faults of the mind.

We have the right to our own bodies.

Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect, but of all human contemplations the most abhorrent is body without mind.

They have, and bring with them, that upper-body strength. They have apparently developed that in their childhood and growing up, and they've further advanced in that regard.

The mobs of great cities add just so much to the support of pure government as sores do to the strength of the human body.

What childishness is it that while there's breath of life in our bodies, we are determined to rush to see the sun the other way around?

Dispositions of the mind, like limbs of the body, acquire strength by exercise.

The sovereign invigorator of the body is exercise, and of all the exercises walking is the best.

The causal body is like DNA or RNA in that it is the coding that determines your level of evolution.

My primary process of perceiving is muscular and visual.

[She] knew that it was not precisely a body that one loved. One loved the man who shone out through the eyes and used its mouth to smile and speak.

Look at this body...Do I look like I use steroids?

The studio people want me to do "Good-bye Charlie" for the movies, but I'm not going to do it. I don't like the idea of playing a man in a woman's body - you know? It just doesn't seem feminine.

The body is like an elaborate metaphor. One may be able to taste and not swallow, like the anorexic, or to swallow and not integrate, like the bulimic or obese.

The person and society are yoked, like mind and body. Arguing which is more important is like debating whether oxygen or hydrogen is the more essential property of water.

I love my body. It's what God gave me!

I want to see how far I can train. I have to see how far my body will go.

It is a misconception to think that during evolution humans sacrificed physical skill in exchange for intelligence: wielding one's body is a mental activity.

Going through puberty as a young girl is so confusing. This monster invades your body, changes things and makes things grow, and no one tells you what's going on.

Territory is but the body of a nation. The people who inhabit its hills and valleys are its soul, its spirit, its life.

Sickness seizes the body from bad ventilation.

The body is consuming energy when tense, and restoring energy when it is relaxed.

On the average, five times as many people read the headlines as read the body copy.

A tattoo is graffiti on the temple of the body.