Quotes About Body

whatever is happening outside, Beta, your must not let it sink into your flesh. Do not punish your body for what it cannot control.

The body is but a pair of pincers set over a bellows and a stew pan and the whole fixed upon stilts.

She nodded. "In the ship, the pilot's nervous system is connected directly with the controls. The whole hyperstasis transit consists of him literally wrestling the stasis shifts. You judge by his reflexes, his ability to control his artificial body. An experienced Transporter can tell exactly how he'll work with hyperstasis currents.

Primum non nocere, 'First, don't make things worse,' was an essential principle of Hippocrates' medicine. Nowadays, unfortunately, it seems to have been forgotten. Conventional modern medicine aims at getting rid of patients' symptoms. Little, if any consideration is given to the fact that some of these symptoms may actually be used by the body in an attempt to correct deeper disorders. When this is the case, suppressing the symptom does not necessarily help the patient.

It ain't easy to do nothing, now that society is telling everyone that their body is fundamentally flawed and about to self-destruct. People are afraid they're on the verge of death all the time

Oh, please, spare me the male ego. I'm not repulsed by sex, and I can reach an orgasm as well as any woman. After all, there are fifty-seven erotic points on a woman's body. If a man can't find one of them, he needs a flashlight and a sex manual.

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In the moments of labor and birth, all the forces of the universe are flowing through a woman's body.

Children pay attention to the truth their bodies tell them. Adults learn to allow their defense mechanisms to alter the truth . As adults we are alerted to danger by bodily sensations that we need to pay attention to. These could include a flash of fear , sweating, a tight stomach, a pounding heart, the hair standing up on the neck, or a general feeling of discomfort that we may be unable to name.

it is about achieving a certain physical appearance.

Christ has no body on Earth but ours.

Pain had a posture of its own; it sat in the spine and across the slope of the shoulders and bowed bone.

But life as herself, inhabiting her own body and mind, which had also seemed so mysterious and elusive, was nothing but another locked room. There was no way in or out. Even if you could escape, you'd be in another locked room: this fucked-up world, which you could get out of easily enough, but never get back into (as far as she knew) once you left.

The smog curled between the streetlamps and the spokes of the wrought iron framework. It seemed through your body and into your bones.

The curve of my waist in a tight fitting summer dress can really make me new friends.

I remember calling the council's cemetery department to ask about body decomposition in different soil types. Once they had verified that I was a novelist and not a sicko, they were extremely helpful.

O Soul," I said, "have you no tears? Was not the body dear to you?" I heard my soul say carelessly, "The myrtle flowers will grow more blue.

The beauty of my body is not measured by the size of the clothes it can fit into, but by the stories that it tells. I have a belly and hips that say, "We grew a child in here," and breasts that say, "We nourished life." My hands, with bitten nails and a writer's callus, say, "We create amazing things."

The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily proportions.

For the theatre one needs long arms; it is better to have them too long than too short. An artiste with short arms can never, never make a fine gesture.

My freedom of movement, the lightness of my step, the suppleness and flexibility of my body, I attribute to having definitely abandoned the corset, for an actress should wear nothing that is calculated to hamper and impede her movements.

Maybe my way of communicating through sign made me more in tune with my body and how it moved. Who knows? I just know when I saw a stage for the first time, I wanted to be on it.

Here I am and there is my body dancing on glass In accident time where there are no accidents You have no choice the choice comes after

The body is shaped, disciplined, honored, and in time, trusted.