Quotes About Body

It is only necessary to make war with five things; with the maladies of the body, the ignorances of the mind, with the passions of the body, with the seditions of the city and the discords of families.

Scala separates the "goods" (i.e., the good things which make life happy) of this world into three classes: goods of the body, goods of the soul, and a third category of what he calls "external goods.

The point is this: Panic erodes your basic trust in your body. Panic wins control over you by convincing you to doubt your body's natural unconscious monitoring system. Panic says, "Keep watching, keep listening, keep monitoring." These are the destructive messages of panic. If you are constantly on guard over your body's sensations, you will need to start thinking about your body in a new way.

What if, at the time of a panic attack, you could convince yourself to rely on that same unconscious to help you manage your body's sensations? I can guarantee that when you learn this skill you will be back in the driver's seat. You will no longer be letting panic have control, nor will you be forcing your conscious mind to do all the work.

The unconscious is ninety-nine percent brilliant in its ability to constantly direct the body toward health.

The resurrection of the body forbids us to despise the material realm.

Love's mysteries in souls do grow, But yet the body is his book.

My features have blunted with the passage of time, my reflection only faintly resembles how I see myself. Gravity demands payback for the years my body has resisted it.

In your body is the garden of flowers. Take your seat on the thousand petals of the lotus, and there gaze on the Infinite Beauty.

There, there is neither body nor mind: and where is the place that shall still the thirst of the soul? You shall find naught in that emptiness. Be strong, and enter into your own body: for there your foothold is firm. Consider it well, O my heart! go not elsewhere, Kabîr says: "Put all imaginations away, and stand fast in that which you are.

I think it's more important to be fit so that you can be healthy and enjoy activities than it is to have a good body.

I imagine the corruption of myself running through her tracts, into her veins and recesses. I long to withdraw my sting from her innocent body.

Not to have been born in a woman's body was a piece of luck in the first place: he couldn't see his own freedom because he couldn't conceive of how elementally it might have been denied him... The wounded don't survive in nature: a woman could never throw herself on fate and expect to come out of it intact. She has to connive at her own survival...

and his wonder at the marks experience has left on her woman's body.

As for the weight, he said, you rarely saw yourself with your clothes off, or anyone else without theirs for that matter. He remembered the feeling of estrangement from his own body, as it laboured in the damp, spore-ridden climate of the house; his clogged lungs and itchy skin, his veins full of sugar and fat, his wobbling flesh shrouded in uncomfortable clothing.

The criticism is more real than you are: it seems, in fact, to have created you. I believe a lot of people walk around with this problem in their heads, and it leads to all kinds of trouble – in my case, it led to my body and my mind getting divorced from each other right at the start, when I was only a few years old.

For me, there was no escaping my physical body. But he could simply run away!

You're beautiful," he said. "I'm as big as cow." "A beautiful cow." She chuckled. "I'm fat." "You're not fat." (Stella & Beau)

Women have a certain sexuality, and I think their bodies are beautiful, and I'm not embarrassed to explore that in a film. But there are things you get offered that are vulgar and violent - just like there's a side of me that's vulgar and violent.

Comedy now is all about body shaming and delivering vulgar dialogues. There can't be another Manorama.

When you're talking about people's clothes, you're also talking about their bodies. That opens up some kind of vulnerability.

It's true that the human body is more vulnerable than the products of the human mind.

I don't have shame with my body. I don't find a breast more vulnerable than an elbow.

Seeing guys in their most vulnerable state talking about their bodies gives me an opportunity to talk about everything. Once they open up about their appearance, then usually they are willing to open up about pretty much everything.