The Body Quotes

Our claim to our own bodies and our world is our catastrophe.

It’s really hard to do nothing totally. Even just sitting here, like this, our bodies are churning, our minds are chattering. There’s a whole commotion going on inside us.

It's a burden to us even to be human beings-men with our own real body and blood; we are ashamed of it, we think it a disgrace and try to contrive to be some sort of impossible generalized man.

It's like having... you know, your phone has a charger, right? It's like having a charger for your whole body and mind. That's what Transcendental Meditation is!

Behead yourself!... Dissolve your whole body into Vision: become seeing, seeing, seeing!

Mind severed from body, culture from planet- to lose our ground is to lose our home.

I found I could also be good in cross country. I don't think my running style has anything to do with it. If you have speed and your body feels good, you can do any distance.

Your mind is your servant, your body is your vehicle and your soul is your residence.

For lovers, touch is metamorphosis. All the parts of their bodies seem to change, and they seem to become something different and better.

The issue is that we, with our fears, our attacks, our judgments, our blame, and our constant emphasis on the realm of the body rather than the realm of love, eclipse the experience of true love.

"Ego," sayest thou, and art proud of that word. But the greater thing - in which thou art unwilling to believe - is thy body with its big sagacity; it saith not "ego," but doeth it.

If the heart has its reasons, perhaps the body Has its own lumbering sort of carnal spirit, Felt in the tingling bruises of collision, And known to captains as esprit de corps.

If two or more organs of the body are not squirting fluids, the story's no good!

I am now about to make the great adventure. I cannot endure this agonizing pain any longer. It is all over my body. Neither can I face the impending blindness. I pray the Lord my soul to take. Amen.

Everything on my body has a meaning. I don't do art just because. It does look cool but it also has a meaning.

A sound soul dwells within a sound mind and a sound body.

1974 meant big cuffs, bell-bottoms, platform shoes with two-tone colors, and body-conscious shirts.

Your body will never be familiar.

I had to face the facts, I was pear-shaped. I was a bit depressed because I hate pears. 'Specially their shape.

I folded myself against her body, breathing in the smell of my new life and matching my heartbeat to hers" Sam, Linger

I prefer big Oprah. I know Oprah wants to be skinny Oprah, but her head is too gigantic to fit on a skinny body. She has to accept that, like Kirstie Alley, she was meant to be... ahm... voluptuous!

The Divine does not like to be shut up in a building. The Divine likes to be out in the open. It is right here in this very body. Each one of us is a miniature universe, a living shrine.

It's my body, and it should be my choice, and the fact that it is not my choice is absolutely disgusting.

Character is not cut in marble - it is not something solid and unalterable. It is something living and changing, and may become diseased as our bodies do.

Regarding the fitness craze: America has lost its soul; now it's trying to save its body.

He vaguely desired to walk around and around the body and stare; the impulse of the living to try to read in dead eyes the answer to the Question.

Emotions arise in the place where your mind and body meet

A lot of people like to be supertiny, but I don't want a child's body - I want a woman's body that is extremely fit. It's so much sexier.

Your heart and your mouth wil be in two separate parts of your body if you again forget in whose presence you stand.

To me, body and mind are different aspects of specific biological processes.

If you don't know whether a body is alive or dead, you would never bury it. I think this consideration itself should be enough for all of us to insist on protecting the unborn.

A lot of people talk about the trail healing them, but I feel like, the first time, it humbled me, which I probably needed. It was a completely new way to experience the world and my body.

The fact is that everyone has ki, which is really little more than a technique of visualization allowing one to utilize the internal energy that we all have and letting it flow through the body.

If one or two works from a body of work for an exhibition are what you would like to be remembered by, it is a good exhibition.

I'm a big believer in listening to my body's cravings.

Women today are bombarded with so many messages, like we should have Naomi Campbell's body and Madeleine Albright's career.

Fashion is killing women's body image of themselves.

In every ancient culture, there are rituals to mortify the body as a way of understanding that the energy of the soul is indestructible.

Body is not all. Mind is not all. Spirit is not all. All three make the sense.

The very purpose for being in this body, for every one of us, is to live and rejoice in that virgin area, that untouched, pure and ever green,blissful area of our Self

The body itself is to reveal the light that's blazing inside your Presence.

I just really thought about it and decided I'm not happy. I'm not happy at all. And I think it's really madness to risk your body, risk your well-being and risk your happiness for money.

Fleas know not whether they are upon the body of a giant or upon one of ordinary size.

The brain is conceded to be the master organ of the body, the regulator of life, the source of human progress.

Just keep taking care of my body and all of that. Take care of your body, stay healthy. You'll be alright.

I don't weigh myself - it's all about how I feel in my clothes.

His heart, like mine, was ticking off the time allotted to his small restless body.

Whoso will pray, he must fast and be clean, And fat his soul, and make his body lean.

To me, God is the accumulated wisdom I've gathered throughout my life. When I pay attention, my body gives me a printout of this wisdom.

[Nutrition] is a huge piece of the puzzle. It's not just about working hard and being physical. It's about being smart and mindful of what's going in and out of our bodies.