Quotes About Body

What?' I said, and increased the speed of his treadmill to four kilometres per hour. 'Slower, bhai.' 'It's fine. Your heart rate should go up. You weighed yourself? How much was it?' 'Ninety-five point five.' 'That's too much, Saurabh.' 'I am working on it. One day I will have a six-pack like you. Actually, I do have one. It's just hidden under some tissue.

Diet is a four-letter word.

Tattoos are walking artwork.

For index now as he stretched forth Derwent, arrested, cried, "Dost bleed?" Touching the naked skin: "Look here— A living fresco!" And indeed, Upon the fore-arm did appear A thing of art, vermil and blue, A crucifixion in tattoo, With trickling blood-drops strange to see...

Every man is the builder of a temple, called his body, to the god he worships, after a style purely his own, nor can he get off by hammering marble instead. We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bones.

It would fare but ill with many of us if we were left to superintend our own digestion and circulation. 'Bless me!' one would cry, 'I forgot to wind up my heart this morning! To think that it has been standing still for the last three hours!' 'I can't walk with you this afternoon,' a friend would say, 'as I have no less than eleven dinners to digest. I had to let them stand over from last week, being so busy, and my doctor says he will not answer for the consequences if I wait any longer!'

It's all in the mind and a bit in the heart but it goes in the body and that's where all the trouble comes in.

Exercise, play, move. Stretch, feel, reach, sweat. Skip, dance, hug! Use the body God gave you, don't let it rot.

If we were meant to be nude, we would have been born that way.

Arteries are the body's thundering poetry.

Skin does not equal sin.

Why do we alienate ourselves so much from our bodies? It's that big piece of machinery attached to your head.

the body is a clock — bones tick and tock years gather in flesh an alarm set for death

All sorts of bodily diseases are produced by half used minds; for it is the mind that makes the body: that is my secret, and the secret of all the true healers.

Breakfast, dinner, tea; in extreme cases, breakfast, luncheon, dinner, tea, supper, and a glass of something hot at bedtime. What care we take about feeding the lucky body! Which of us does as much for his mind? And what causes the difference? Is the body so much the more important of the two? By no means: but life depends on the body being fed, whereas we can continue to exist as animals (scarcely as men) though the mind be utterly starved and neglected.

Pain of mind is worse than pain of body.

Good for the body is the work of the body, and good for the soul, the work of the soul, and good for either, the work of the other.

I do not care for the body, I love the timid soul, the blushing, shrinking soul; it hides, for it is afraid, and the bold, obtrusive body— Pray, marm, did you call me? We are very small... I think we grow still smaller — this tiny, insect life the portal to another; it seems strange — strange indeed.

Is soul the stem and body the blossom — or body our stem, with soul its indigenous bloom?

Persons living very entirely on vegetables are seldom of a plump and succulent habit.

Breasts and bosoms have I known Of varied shapes and sizes, From poignant disappointments To jubilant surprizes.

Don't chain your worries to your body. The burden soon becomes heavy and your health will give too much of itself picking up the extra load.

To know exactly where the zodiac sign is, multiply the day of the month by the sign, then find a dividend that will go into a divider four times without any remains, subtract this from the sign, add the first quotient to the last divider, then multiply the whole of the man's body by all the signs, and the result will be just what you are looking after.

By too much sitting still the body becomes unhealthy; and soon the mind. This is nature's law. She will never see her children wronged. If the mind, which rules the body, ever forgets itself so far as to trample upon its slave, the slave is never generous enough to forgive the injury; but will rise and smite its oppressor. Thus has many a monarch mind been dethroned.