Quotes About Body

I went from 118 pounds to 135 pounds in a few months. But, I still didn't know anything about food.

I was not thinking about the world. I was not thinking about history. I was thinking about my body's small, precise, limited, hungry movement forward into the future that seemed at every instant on the verge of being shut down.

Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul.

All I know is when you have somethin' cut off, it means there's less of you left, and I like as much of you as can be, Lu. Maybe you should gain some weight.

If the mind's not strong, the body acts weak, even if it's not. If the mind says it's too cold or too rainy or too windy to run, the body will be more than happy to agree. If the mind says it would be better to rest or recover or cut practice, the body will be glad to oblige.

One of the most important resources that a garden makes available for use, is the gardener's own body. A garden gives the body the dignity of working in its own support. It is a way of rejoining the human race

The end-times battle will only be won by each and every battalion operating in its exact function and structure. "It is only when honor reigns among My Body – when each views and treats each as better than themselves. Preferring one another in love.

My sweat smells like peanut-butter.

To get upset by an image that focuses on the human body is merely to demonstrate a bad attitude toward what is physical. If I concentrated on a woman's sense of humor to the exclusion of her other characteristics, would this be degrading? Why is it degrading to focus on her sexuality? Underlying this attitude is the view that sex must be somehow ennobled to be proper.

When you enforce virtue, you deny a woman's right to make an unacceptable choice with her own body. This conflict is old wine in new bottles; it is nothing less than the age-old battle between freedom and control.

I don't expect to meet the man of my dream today, but if I do, then I guess if he's really the man of my dreams he won't reject me when he sees the pudge around my knees.

It's easy to hate women and hate women's bodies when we don't do very much to fight back. We have to step into the skin we're in. Your body isn't perfect? Well, neither is mine. Neither is anyone's. It's time to redefine "perfect" or drop the expectation. It's time to feed ourselves with compassion instead of grief. Compassion instead of starvation. Compassion instead of food.

At forty-five not even expensive highlights and a boatload of Lycra could disguise the fact that her body had given up its struggle against gravity.

YO SOY LA MAGNA VICTORIOSA PRESENCIA CONQUISTADORA, MANIFESTANDO AHORA LA PERFECCIÓN A TRAVÉS DE MI CUERPO FÍSICO, Y EL LOGRO VICTORIOSO EN MIS ASUNTOS DIARIOS, DE ACUERDO CON EL PLAN DIVINO", y "YO SOY

With either soul or body lost, all perisheth.

Open confession of dictatorship is far less dangerous than sham democracy. One can defend oneself against the former; the latter is like a creeper attached to the body of a drowning man.

Wilhelm Reich identified "armor" as the sum total of typical character attitudes, which an individual develops as a blocking against his emotional excitations, resulting in rigidity of the body, lack of emotional contact, "deadness". Functionally identical to muscular armor (chronic muscular spasms)

True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are ever united.

For even if we know very little that is certain about spirit or soul, the true nature of the body, of materiality, is totally unknown and incomprehensible to us.

cognition is embodied; you think with your body, not only with your brain.

An odd feature of what happened is that your System 1 treated the mere conjunction of two words as representations of reality. Your body acted in an attenuated replica of reaction to the real thing, and the emotional response and physical recoil were part of the interpretation of the event. As cognitive scientists have emphasised in recent years, cognition is embodied; you think with your body, not only with your brain.

Treason is a criminal act committed by an individual, not a political body and, therefore, cannot be committed by a State.

In an era where the word communication reigns, where an unlimited mass of information can be accessed within a few seconds, we complain about having lost contact with our body and with other human beings. We suffer from extreme solitude, we suffer from no longer touching each other, we suffer from the "virtualization" of our feelings, the expression of our emotions, and our sensorality.

What would be the worth of a body whose marvelous functionings were not operating? How would consciousness spherically unfold itself within a frozen form not tending toward natural fluidity?