Quotes About Body

Don't make the mistake of thinking that your soul is an island, Ash. It's as much a part of the continent as your body is. It is immune to being bought and sold because the original owner will not release the title.

To hear many religious people talk, one would think God created the torso, head, legs and arms, but the devil slapped on the genitals.

The body knows things the thinking mind can only imagine.

In the contemplation of nudes, we congratulate ourselves upon the beauty of which human beings are capable. They reassure us about ourselves, about Being. We are a little lower than the angels, true, but notice that we can get along without that suspect radiance, equal parts paint and literature, on which the angels lean so heavily. The human body is, or can be, a sufficiency.

Are you past pity? If you have consciousness now, if I something I can call "you" has something like "consciousness," I doubt you remember the last days. I play them over and over: I lift your wasted body onto the commode, your arms looped around my neck, aiming your bony bottom so that it will not bruise on a rail. Faintly you repeat, "Momma, Momma.

My whole life has been about equal rights and opportunities. For me it really goes back to the health of mind, body and soul.

It's the decomposition that gets me. You spend your whole life looking after your body. And then you rot away.

Even if it has not been your habit throughout your life so far, I recommend that you learn to think positively about your body.

The winners in life treat their body as if it were a magnificent spacecraft that gives them the finest transportation and endurance for their lives.

Everybody uses mime and gesture in real life, though we don't realize it. It's very useful as a performance technique, though it can be boring to watch on its own.

[In Bali] life is a rhythmic, patterned unreality of pleasant, significant movement, centered in one's own body to which all emotions long ago withdrew.

Your body is precious. It is our vehicle for awakening. Treat it with care.

The heart is the household divinity which, discharging its function, nourishes, cherishes, quickens the whole body, and is indeed the foundation of life, the source of all action.

Body and soul, Black America reveals the extreme questions of contemporary life, questions of freedom and identity: How can I be who I am?

The head is what matters. The rest of the body plays the part of antennae making life possible for people and life itself is inside the skull.

There is a life in you, search that life, search the secret jewel in the mountain of your body.

I continuously go further and further learning about my own limitations, my body limitation, psychological limitations. It's a way of life for me.

It is through the alignment of the body that I discovered the alignment of my mind, self, and intelligence.

In the fullness of time, educated people will believe there is no soul independent of the body, and hence no life after death.

When you are modelling, you are creating a picture, a still life, perhaps something like a silent film. You convey emotion but you are only using your body.

A great thing happening now in art is that artists are using the figure, the body, clothing, life.

The law of life is that the mind should be at rest while the body engages in action.

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

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