Quotes About Body

El amor es elección; el erotismo, aceptación. Sin erotismo - sin forma visible que entra por los sentidos - no hay amor pero el amor traspasa al cuerpo deseado y busca al alma en el cuerpo y, en el alma, al cuerpo. A la persona entera.

Las ideas de que las almas se buscan en este mundo por las relaciones que tuvieron antes de descender a la tierra y encarnar en un cuerpo, también es de la estirpe platónica: es la reminiscencia.

I finally realized that being grateful to my body was key to giving more love to myself.

What I know for sure: There is no need to struggle with your body when you can make a loving and grateful peace with it.

Here's how I see your weight—it is your smoke detector. And we're all burning up the best part of our lives.

There is no need to struggle with your body when you can make peace with it.

When you nurture and support your body, it reciprocates. The basis of that support is exercise, like it or not. The most essential benefit is more energy; weight control is a bonus. I know for sure that taking care of your body, no matter what, is an investment, and the return is priceless.

Dies ist der Körper, der dir gegeben ist, dachte ich, also liebe das, was du hast.

Eines weiß ich genau: Es gibt keinen Grund mit seinen Körper zu hadern, wo man doch in Liebe, Dankbarkeit und Frieden mit ihm leben kann.

Niemand kann immer nur funktionieren. Wenn man sich selbst nich die nötige Zeit und Fürsorge gönnt, dann rebelliert der Körper in Form von Krankheit und Erschöpfung.

What was the difference between love and the agony of waiting? Like love, the agony of waiting began in the muscles somewhere around the upper belly but soon spread out to the chest, the thighs, and the forehead, to invade the entire body with numbing force.

I saw myself in the mirror, and from my expression I had a shocking intimation of the rift between my body and my soul. Whereas my face was drained by defeat and shock, inside my head was another universe: I now understood as an elemental fact of life that while I was here, inside my body was a soul, a meaning, that all things were made of desire, touch, and love, that what I was suffering was composed of the same elements.

However blissful it is being a soul without a body in the realm of the dead, so too is being a body without a soul among the living; what a pity nobody realizes this before dying. Therefore, during my lovely funeral, as I grievously watched my dear Shekure wear herself out weeping in vain, I begged of Exalted Allah to grant us souls-without bodies in Heaven and bodies-without-souls in life.

Más interesante era verme la nuca, algo que todavía me provoca un escalofrío haciéndome pensar que mi cuerpo es en realidad un extraño que hace años que llevo encima.

În astfel de împrejur?ri, adic? imediat ce mintea noastr? neîndur?toare pricepe dureroasa realitate pe care inima refuz? cu înverÅŸunare s-o recunoasc?, întregul nostru trup se revolt? împotriva ei.

A non-materialist. And yet you are unpleasantly fat. A gluttonous ascetic? Such a contradiction.

Why do you say that I am alone? My body is with me wherever I am, telling me endless stories of hunger and satisfaction, weariness and sleep, eating and drinking and breathing and life. With such company who could ever be alone?

Human beings *do* metamorphose. They change their identity constantly. However, each new identity thrives on the delusion that it was always in possession of the body it has just conquered.

No, said Ender. I don't know about souls. I just know that while we're alive, in these bodies, we can only do what our body can do. My parents believe in souls. I've known people who were absolutely sure. Smart people. Good people. So just because I don't understand it doesn't mean I'm sure it can't be true.

There was no name for the disease; his body had gone insane, forgotten the blueprint by which human beings were built. Even now the disease still lives on in his children. Not in our bodies, but in our souls. We exist where normal human children are expected to be; we're even shaped the same. But each of us in our own way has been replaced by an imitation child, shaped out of a twisted, fetid, lipidous goiter that grew out of Father's soul.

this temple of living cells on a frame of bone

I drink to separate my body from my soul.

To be really mediæval one should have no body. To be really modern one should have no soul. To be really Greek one should have no clothes.

What men call the shadow of the body is not the shadow of the body, but is the body of the soul.