Quotes About Body

Respecting yourself means listening to your body and emotions continuously. Then acting beyond a linear logic to achieve ones goals.

Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature?

Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns.

Habeas corpus [You are to produce the person].

In this world everything changes except good deeds and bad deeds; these follow you as the shadow follows the body.

Once it becomes clear that feelings of emotion are primarily perceptions of our body state during a state of emotion, it is reasonable to say that all feelings of emotion contain a variation on the theme of primordial feelings, whatever the primordial feelings of the moment are, augmented by other aspects of body change that may or not be related to interoception.

But the brain's representation of the body has another major implication: because we can depict our own body states, we can more easily simulate the equivalent body states of others.

Feelings of emotion, on the other hand, are composite perceptions of what happens in our body and mind when we are emoting.

And as this happens, our growing sense of whatever the world outside may be, is apprehended as a modification in the neural space in which body and brain interact. It is not only the separation between mind and brain that is mythical: the separation between mind and body is probably just as fictional. The mind is embodied, in the full sense of the term, not just embrained.

Feelings provide us with a moment-to-moment perspective on the state of our health.

Feelings are primarily about the quality of the state of life in the body's old interior, in any situation, during repose, during a goal-directed activity, or, importantly, during the response to the thoughts one is having, whether they are caused by a perception of the outside world or by a recollection of a past event as stored in our memories.

The head, the chest, and the abdomen were the most commonly engaged theaters of feeling. They are indeed the stages on which feelings are created.

The rest of the newly-arrived person is frequently advisable, or necessary, to allow of adjustment of the spirit body to its new conditions of life. It has been accustomed to being very securely fastened to the physical body whereit can receive whatever unpleasantness the physical body may be submitted to during the course of its earthly term.

there comes a point where the pressure of relentless fear perforates rationality and the body moves independently of the mind.

There are ninety-six thousand kilometers of blood vessels in the human body, children! Almost enough to wind around the earth two and a half times . . .

Werner wonders in the dead of night, isn't life a kind of corruption? A child is born, and the world sets in upon it. Taking things from it, stuffing things into it. Each bite of food, each particle of light entering the eye—the body can never be pure. But this is what the commandant insists upon, why the Reich measures their noses, clocks their hair color.

Why can't healing happen as quickly as wounding? You twist an ankle, break a bone—you can be hurt in a heartbeat. Hour by hour, week by week, year by year, the cells in your body labor to remake themselves the way they were the instant before your injury. But even then you're never the same: not quite.

Racial purity, political purity–Bastian speaks to a horror of any sort of corruption, and yet, Werner wonders in the dead of night, isn't life a kind of corruption? A child is born, and the world sets in upon it. Taking things from it, stuffing things into it. Each bite of food, each particle of light entering the eye–the body can never be pure.

Can deaf people hear their heartbeat?

We sense that the human body is a precious thing, worthy of our reverence. It is not a tool, not an object of consumption like a steak or a keg of beer, not an animate provider of pleasure. It is the outward expression of a profound mystery, that of another human being.

There is no biological reason for sodomy. The body does not need it; society does not need it; in this sense it is not a sin involving the intemperate use of something good or morally neutral, nor is it a sin involving the misuse of such things. It is an act which by its nature frustrates the function of the organs of the body it employs.

Alexander had died in 323 B.C. His embalmed body in its gold and crystal coffin was the new city's most sacred relic.

naked men and women

I really, truly believe that writing comes out of the body; of course, the mind is working as well, but it's a double thing and that doubleness is united. I mean, you can't separate persona from psyche; you just can't do it.