Quotes About Body

I've been overweight all my life.

Finally, good sense is the body of poetic genius, fancy its drapery, motion its life, and imagination the soul that is everywhere and in each; and forms all into one graceful and intelligent whole.

The poem is not a physical body. It's a textual body that has life only insofar as it can act symbolically. It cannot physically act.

Life is effort. So says the body. Life is blessing. So says the soul.

Yoga is a study of life, study of your body, breath, mind, intellect, memory, and ego. Study of your inner faculties!

I hated the reflection in the mirror. I wanted so much to be someone else... I thought that if I was thinner, the rest of my life would change.

Your bones are for life. Look after them and they will carry you far.

Jiva (individual soul) is the conscious ruler of this body, in whom the five life principles come into unity, and yet that very Jiva is the Atman, because all is Atman.

People tend to comment on my feet a lot. In daily life.

We're all just in our bodies for a moment in our life. Such a brave and lovely act it is to let the body celebrate.

Black is like the silence of the body after death, the close of life.

Subject becoming less relevant, each painting having a life of its own, each stroke leading to the next. It is more about the connection of body and spirit to canvas, over mind to canvas.

a woman obsessed with her body is also obsessed with the limitations of her emotional life.

There seems a life in hair, though it be dead.

I'm not a body shamer. The word fat has been used to hurt me my entire life.

Somehow the body keeps life going despite the ravaging negations of the mind.

As for waxing, I've never waxed in my life and I never would. I'm extremely Welsh, so I draw the line at removing body hair.

Fevers are a mixed blessing. They damage good tissues in the body, and some runaway fevers end up killing people. Also, for as long as people have had fevers, they've used herbal medicines (including ones containing the active ingredient in aspirin) to relieve them. But it's also possible that ancients knew something we don't: that helping along a fever may actually be beneficial.

Located in the body are eight major endocrine glands and several organs and tissues that secrete chemical substances called hormones.

The science of human physiology attempts to explain the specific characteristics and mechanisms of the human body that make it a living being.

About 60 percent of the adult human body is fluid, mainly a water solution of ions and other substances. Although most of this fluid is inside the cells and is called intracellular fluid, about one third is in the spaces outside the cells and is called extracellular fluid.

Thus, homeostatic compensations that ensue after injury, disease, or major environmental challenges to the body may represent a "trade-off" that is necessary to maintain vital body functions but may, in the long term, contribute to additional abnormalities of body function. The discipline of pathophysiology seeks to explain how the various physiological processes are altered in diseases or injury.

To summarize, the body is actually a social order of about 100 trillion cells organized into different functional structures, some of which are called organs.

Extremely important work is being done in the brain biochemistry section of the National Institutes of Mental Health on the subject of brain-body interaction. One of the pioneers in this research is Candace Pert, once chief of that section, whose work is demonstrating communication between the brain and different parts and systems of the body. For those interested, an excellent review of this work appeared in the June 1989 issue of Smithsonian, written by Stephen S. Hall.