Quotes About Body

The right hemisphere controls sensory attention and body image; the left hemisphere controls skilled movements and some aspects of language.

No aspect of our world is as mysterious as consciousness, the state of awareness that animates our every waking moment, the sense of being located in a body that exists within a larger world of color, sound, and touch, all of it filtered through our thoughts and imbued by emotion.

En ningún cuerpo falta un lunar.

El cuerpo no se elige —se decía— pero el alma sí; cada uno hacemos de nuestra alma lo que nos apetece que sea.

Tú no tienes madre? - No, no la tengo. Debió de interesarle mi orfandad porque oí crujir las sábanas como si su cuerpo buscara una postura más cómoda para escuchar. Pero yo no añadí nada. Al contrario, apunté la conversación hacia lo que a mí me interesaba. Lo hice con tiento, con miedo, como si a pesar de mis pocos años ya tuviese una sensación inconsciente de que pisaba terreno prohibido.

What you are is a force--a force that makes it possible for your body to live, a force that makes it possible for your whole mind to dream...You are life

You don't need to worship idols of the Virgin Mary, the Christ, or the Buddha. You can if you want to; if it feels good, do it. Your own body is a manifestation of God

Imagine that you love yourself just the way you are. You love your body just the way it is, and you love your emotions just the way they are. You know that you are perfect just as you are.

Respect your body, enjoy your body, love your body, feed, clean, and heal your body. Exercise and do what makes your body feel good. This is a puja to your body, and that is a communion between you and God.

When we fulfill any need of the human body, it gives us pleasure. To breathe gives us much pleasure.

Humans use fear to domesticate humans, and our fear increases with each experience of injustice. The sense of injustice is the knife that opens a wound in our emotional body. Emotional poison is created by our reaction to what we consider injustice.

Fear is energy also, and it's food for the mind — not exactly the food you want, but it works. We need to give the body the freedom from the tyrant that is the mind. If we no longer have the need for food in our mind, the need for sex in our mind, everything becomes so easy. The first step is to split the needs into two categories: These are the needs of the body; these are the needs of the mind.

We humans comprehend truth through emotion and physical intimacy, but notice how quickly we turn against truth with stories of blame or resentment. We make the human body pay for our ideas of good and evil. I learned early in my life that the truth can be felt without a story. Love, the truth of us, transforms reality on its own.

Our body is completely loyal to us, but we judge our body and abuse our body; we treat it as if it's the enemy when it's our ally.

It is only within the context of having properly developed your mind that you will be able to truly enjoy the achievement of your material values, including that of a more muscular body.

mens sana in corpore sano—

She blushed. It is a beautiful thing when a woman blushes; at that instant her body no longer belongs to her; she doesn't control it; she is at its mercy; oh, can there be anything more beautiful than the sight of a woman violated by her own body!

She was aware that in love even the most passionate idealism will not rid the body's surface of its terrible, basic importance.

But just make someone who has fallen in love listen to his stomach rumble, and the unity of body and soul, that lyrical illusion of the age of science , instantly fades away.

She had come to him to escape her mother's world, a world where all bodies were equal. She had come to him to make her body unique, irreplaceble. But he, too had drawn an equal sign between her and the rest of them: he kissed them all alike, stroked them all alike, made no, absolutely no distiction between Tereza's body and the other bodies. He sent her back to the world she tried to escape, sent to march naked with the other naked women

For the body is temporal and thought is eternal and the shimmering essence of flame is an image of thought.

A long time ago, man would listen in amazement to the sound of regular beats in his chest, never suspecting what they were. He was unable to identify himself with so alien and unfamiliar an object as the body. The body was a cage, and inside that cage was something which looked, listened, feared, thought, and marveled; that something, that remainder left over after the body had been accounted for, was the soul.

The old duality of body and soul has become shrouded in scientific terminology, and we can laugh at it as merely an obsolete prejudice. But just make someone who has fallen in love listen to his stomach rumble, and the unity of body and soul, that lyrical illusion of the age of science, instantly fades away.

When a woman doesn't live sufficiently through her body, she comes to see the body as an enemy.