Quotes About Body

Dieting is wishful shrinking.

I'm not overweight, I'm undertall.

I'm in shape. Round is a shape — isn't it?

While I was out running this morning I heard someone clapping, but it was just my thighs cheering me on.

Exercise is essential to the health of the whole body; it increases the circulation and the power of breathing, and stimulates every part of the body to a good healthy growth.

If thou wouldst preserve a sound body, use fasting and walking; if a healthful soul, fasting and praying; walking exercises the body, praying exercises the soul, fasting cleanses both.

Periodic fasting can help clear up the mind and strengthen the body and the spirit.

There are nearly forty-six miles of nerves in the human body, and fibromyalgia, you get on every single inch of them.

Fibromyalgia is a pain in the neck — and my shoulders, head, elbows, knees, back, hips, feet... sometimes even my hair hurts.

The gout is to the stomach, what rheumatism is to the heart.

Green smoothies rejuvenate the body, prevent against inflammation, and help keep your skin healthy and radiant.

His heart beats only love — not a drop of hate-tinged blood in his body.

The mind has great influence over the body, and maladies often have their origin there.

There are more ghosts in an unwell body than in an entire haunted mansion.

A body well cared for glows in happy health.

He studied the nail-formation, and prodded the finger-tips, now sharply, and again softly, gauging the nerve-sensations produced. It fascinated him, and he grew suddenly fond of this subtle flesh of his that worked so beautifully and smoothly and delicately. Then he would cast a glance of fear at the wolf-circle drawn expectantly about him, and like a blow the realization would strike him that this wonderful body of his, this living flesh, was no more than so much meat...

this finger is not I.  Cut it off.  I live.  The body is mutilated.  I am not mutilated.  The spirit that is I is whole.

for he could scarcely make them move together to grip a twig, and they seemed remote from his body and from him. 

Jis niekada taip nemyl?jo savo k?no kaip dabar, kai jam išlikti buvo taip maža vilties.

He was a large, fleshy man, weighing at least two hundred pounds, and he quickly became a faithful representation of a quivering jelly mountain of fat.

Never had he been so fond of this body of his as now when his tenure of it was so precarious.

Life is a peculiar commodity, with dimensions of its own. Still, if you were to live a million years, engaged in continual pleasures of mind, spirit and body, so that every day you discovered a new delight, or solved an antique puzzle, or overcame a challenge; even a single hour wasted in torpor, somnolence or passivity would be as reprehensible as if the fault were committed by an ordinary person, with scanty years to his life.

Want a vivid image of how American bodies have changed? The average American woman now weighs around 165 pounds. According to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), that's essentially what the average American man weighed in 1960. (Today's average man is around 195 pounds.)111 Americans were once the tallest people in the advanced industrial world. We are now not just among the shortest but also far and away the heaviest.

I had begun to think my ripening body would wither untasted on the vine.