Quotes About Body

Man does not have a soul. He is a soul. He has a body.

Man is of soul and body, formed for deeds Of high resolve; on fancy's boldest wing.

The sacraments infuse holiness into the terrain of man's humanity: they penetrate the soul and body, the femininity and masculinity of the personal subject, with the power of holiness.

I cannot believe any man can be perfectly well in body, who has much labor of the mind to perform.

There are places on a man's head that are as hard as a rock. Your head's actually stronger than your body. And you don't have too many instruments up there workin'.

Freedom was conditioned by man's physical body, heredity, and environment.

Ill-health, of body or of mind, is defeat. Health alone is victory. Let all men, if they can manage it, contrive to be healthy!

For man also, in health and sickness, is not just the sum of his organs, but is indeed a human organism.

Rock Hudson was not an educated man, but that very beautiful body of his was putty in my hands.

Certainly man is of kin to the beasts by his body; and if he be not kin to God by his spirit, he is a base and ignoble creature.

The abdomen is the reason why man does not readily take himself to be a god.

A young mind in a healthy body is a wonderful thing. Especially for an old man with an open night.

I believe serious progress (in the abolition of war) can be achieved only when men become organized on an international scale and refuse, as a body, to enter military or war service.

Man, as a physical being, is like other bodies governed by invariable laws.

I am a big man, but I've allowed my condition to deteriorate by being overweight.

Curiously enough man's body and his mind appear to differ in their climatic adaptations.

He who lives in the single exercise of his mental faculties, however usefully or curiously directed, is equally an imperfect animal with the man who knows only the exercise of muscles.

The man who has allowed his body to deteriorate cuts a pitiful figure - chest collapsed, stomach protruding.

A man thinks as well through his legs and arms as this brain.

Through the teachings, the introduction by the master, the practice, and the blessings, you can gradually deconstruct and dissolve the karmic conceptual body and be introduced to another type of body and identity called the illusory wisdom body (yeshé gyumé lü). This second body is characterized by wisdom—realization of the truth—and by a positive sense of the illusory.

Those fierce animal passions of his were his masters, not his slaves, and he was as much their victim as those he punished when he was in their grip. And despite what he had done to me tonight, I knew that his desire was real. Even if all his need was for a living body and arms to hold him, it was still a bitter desperate need.

Now I had new fears; not of him but of myself and of the drugging rule my body could exert over my mind. ...I was lost to hungers I had not known I possessed.

We know only that we are living in these bodies and have a vague idea, because we have heard it, and because our faith tells us so, that we possess souls. As to what good qualities there may be in our souls, or who dwells within them, or how precious they are, those are things which seldom consider and so we trouble little about carefully preserving the soul's beauty.

I know, too, that our progress has nothing to do with the body, which is the thing that matters least.