The Body Quotes

Asking the questions - that's what changes lives. Every cell in your body is awake with inquiry. And you cannot believe the old thoughts again.

If nature had intended our skeletons to be visible it would have put them on the outside of our bodies.

You possess other people's...bodies." He accepted that statement with a nod. "Do you want to possess my body?" "I want to do a lot of things to your body, but that's not one of them.

The only thing that can effect a big change in personality is something that physically rewires the brain and/or alters the body's chemical milieu.

The eyes, like sentinels, hold the highest place in the body. [Lat., Oculi, tanquam, speculatores, altissimum locum obtinent.]

Let thy mind's sweetness have its operation upon thy body, clothes, and habitation.

Through meditation and gentle cooperation, the body will heal itself with little or no effort.

I think women are usually a little bit nervous about wearing white denim. There are rules associated, body issues, all of those things.

Over to the jukebox I staggered for a love song to scatter my body before her.

My coaches have told me my muscles and body structure are perfect for skating.

Of all the tyrannies which have usurped power over humanity, few have been able to enslave the mind and body as imperiously as drug addiction.

In order to succeed in a profession, a person not only needs to have its good, but also its bad qualities. The former are the spirit, the latter is the body of the job.

Opening your chakras and allowing cosmic energies to flow through your body will ultimately refresh your spirit and empower your life.

I always had really long swimmer's arms. The last to totally go is always my thighs and butt, but my old body is there somewhere.

I believe that behind both the person who weighs 400 pounds and the one who weighs 85 there is a lot of baggage, and it has nothing to do with their bodies.

The body is shaped, disciplined, honored, and in time, trusted.

The mood was terrible. You could see it in everybody's eyes. The body language was just defeated. When they put me in I was hoping I could give us some energy and try to bring us back.

In athletics, older runners tend to go for longer races, but it's the opposite in swimming because your body can't handle the endurance.

Idleness is more an infirmity of the mind than of the body.

Torture takes over someone's nervous system. Torture takes over what they feel. Torture takes over and penetrates into their mind and into their body. It's not only illegal, it's immoral.

If you would behold the spirit of death, open your heart wide unto the body of life. For life and death are one, even as the river and sea are one.

There is fatigue so great that the body cries, even in its sleep.

All incarnations are lived at once, and yet there does seem to be a linear sense of time when you're in the vortex of time and space, when your consciousness is fixated in a body.

Certainly man is of kin to the beasts by his body; and if he be not kin to God by his spirit, he is a base and ignoble creature.

For cleanness of body was ever esteemed to proceed from a due reverence to God, to society, and to ourselves.

Novelists tend to go off at 70, and I'm in a funk about it, I've got myself into a real paranoid funk about it, how the talent dies before the body.

Disease cannot live in a body that's in a healthy emotional state.

The soul's illness is more terrible and more difficult to understand than the illness of the body or any other type of malady.

You know the definition of the perfectly designed machine.... The perfectly designed machine is one in which all its working parts wear out simultaneously. I am that machine.

Soul is as necessary in a painting as body.

The Buddha is your real body, your original mind.

Taking the time to meditate is as important as taking the time to breathe. One pumps oxygen into the body, the other pumps peace into the mind.

If there is continuity in the universe, it is fitting that there should be intelligent beings without bodies which are called angels.

I listen to my body, I give it things it wants and I eliminate things it doesn't want.

Wanna lose 1200 Calories a month? Drink a liter of ice water a day. You burn the energy just raising the water to body temp.

'Darkness on the Edge of Town' came out of a huge body of work that had tons of very happy songs.

I've seen a dead body, I've seen some pretty gruesome fist fights, I've been a hunter since I was a child, though I don't anymore, I've gutted wild game.

Violence wounds the body and it wounds the soul. Of the predator. Of the prey. Of the mourners. Of collective humanity. It diminishes us all.

Maybe I could just James Bond my way down the cable if I draped the scarf over it, clinging to the ends as my body careened down it to safety-- Careened. What an ugly word that was

What I think is that we in the church - and especially I as an Archbishop - I'm responsible for maintaining our rules, and making sure we hold to unity in the Body of Christ.

A young mind in a healthy body is a wonderful thing. Especially for an old man with an open night.

You are not your buttocks.

Come back to yourself. Return to the voice of your body. Trust that much.

If you want to find the answers to the Big Questions about your soul, you'd best begin with the Little Answers about your body.

Not that I am ashamed of my mind or body, my birth or breeding, my actions or fortunes, for my bashfulness is in my nature, not for any crime.

I've been in a Speedo half my life. So I am really comfortable with my body.

The way the parts of me sometimes disagree, it's a wonder this body doesn't shatter.

If you watch any good player, they're using different parts of their body and working with instruments that respond to those movements. They're moving in many dimensions at once.

The child seeks for independence by means of work; an independence of body and mind.

There will be no funeral! Before I get too old and ill, I'll go to South America and live among the Pemon people and meditate. When the time is right, they can throw my body into the volcano.