Quotes About Body

Everything got blended together. A sensation like pain--only worse, because it wasn't a pain in your body; the pain was in your mind and your mind was you. You were pain itself.

It is an interesting truth that the human body, liberated from its head, is in essence a bag of blood with a built-in straw.

She would be a girl; Lila had seen her on the ultrasound. A baby girl. Tiny hands and tiny feet and a tiny heart and lungs, floating in the warm broth of her body.

She was giving him a look. It took Eustace a second to figure out what it was. Her off-kilter gaze traveled the length of his body, then lingered pointedly. The gesture was supposed to be seductive but was more like livestock trying to sell itself.

Something irrevocable had happened, beyond knowing. He looked down at the body. He had felt her soul leaving her. It had brushed him like a breeze, only a breeze that was inside him, made of words. Thank you, thank you. I am free.

That's when it struck me: how gorgeous we all were, even with cellulite (saw a lot of that) and stretch marks, scars and tattoos. Let me just say this, not single body was perfect, not even the fittest of women there.

You should pray for a sound mind in a sound body.

Mens sana in corpore sano. (Your prayer must be for a sound mind in a sound body.)

A hairy body, and arms stiff with bristles, give promise of a manly soul.

She replied that the manual labour exercised her body while allowing her mind and spirit to rest, adding that she believed there was value in the discipline of ordinariness, provided that it was only a discipline and not an unvarying state of being.

Remember you said, 'God gave us bodies to live with them, not just inside them?

Be strong then, and enter into your own body; there you have a solid place for your feet.

Do not keep the slanderer away, treat him with affection and honor: Body and soul, he scours all clean, babbling about this and that.

In our Tradition, we use the body to experience the presence of God. We can teach the body what it feels like to surrender to the Divine as our forehead touches the ground during prayer. This is something the body needs to tangibly experience. (p. 6)

Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.

Oh, heart, I the ignorant say to you that the soul perishes like the body, answer that the flower perishes, but the seeds remain. This is the law of God.

tango is art, not sex. Yes, it is art made with your body and someone else's. But not sex.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Music rhythms are mathematical patterns. When you hear a song and your body starts moving with it, your body is doing math. The kids in their parents' garage practicing to be a band may not realize it, but they're also practicing math.

I was getting hot flashes and sweats on a regular basis. That's not normal, even for my age.

You have to be able to center yourself, to let all of your emotions go. Don't ever forget that you play with your soul as well as your body.

I sometimes feel that we are losing an intuitive sense of our own bodies.

The more you invest in your health, the less you have to cover up it all up!

Cancer essentially lives in us and becomes activated at some point, and then cells begin to psychotically divide. Initially, the cancer cell looks like other cells and the body invites it in.