Quotes About Body

I'm basically the healthiest fat guy you've ever seen.

He likens the physical being to a car, and the spiritual being to the driver. And possession is like carrying a passenger who shares the driving. And occasionally takes the car out for a spin without telling you. And maybe ties you up and stuffs you in the trunk.

As far back as I can remember, I've had a strong sense of being permeable, porous, of my body being open to the unpredictable forces of outside matter – of seeing myself and my actions in terms of what I've swallowed or been immersed in, what I've touched or been touched by, what I've injected, ingested or inhaled.

Later he insisted that "nudity was never a big thing in my movies. When my characters took off their clothes, you wanted them to put them back on.

Diseases were conceived as transferring to the body when their qualities combine with the patient's temperament.

The panic of altruism: sadness rests inside the body, always, nascent like the inflammation of a chronic disease. Therefore, empathy is not a reaching outward. It is a loop. Because there isn't any separation any more between what you are and what you see.

It returned suddenly about a week ago—the spirit of sex, like one of these little Roman gods, touching every part of my body, arousing them to the sacredness of pleasure. As if the veil was lifted and a new field of human possibility revealed.

Who said that time heals all wounds? It would be better to say that time heals everything - except wounds. With time, the hurt of separation loses its real limits. With time, the desired body will soon disappear, and if the desiring body has already ceased to exist for the other, then what remains is a wound, disembodied.

tree. How she feels enslaved of herself, then exposed suddenly, to the plummeting temperature. Weather's self-indulgent caprice chills her body.

auch Hände haben ein Gedächtnis.

Yes, indeed, the coconut—the delectable thought now revealed itself to him—was in truth the theosophical grail! The open shell with the meat and the sweet milk within was thus not just a symbol for, but in actual fact the body and blood of Christ.

When a woman puts on a heel, she has a different posture, a different attitude. She really stands up and has a consciousness of her body.

As many suffer from too much as too little. A fat body makes a lean mind.

the most fundamental and radical of these changes is learning how to love and accept your precious body right now. It is, after all, the temple that houses your soul.

The reality is that our bodies are not separate from our thoughts or emotions.

And now for some really unexpected news out of that study: autopsies showed that the nuns who relished life and showed no signs of dementia had just as many plaques in their brains as the less vivacious nuns whose dementia was apparent before they died. Please reread that last sentence. It is proof that a healthy mind and spirit can exist in a body that is less than perfect. That is the power of an ageless attitude.

After the first miscarriage, I tried to take the attitude that it was my body's way of telling me that this pregnancy wasn't meant to be.

As I watch her pine casket descend...I try to envision the reunion of a frail eighty year old woman with her decades younger husband and their three sons and am left with the lingering feeling that the places we go in our minds to find comfort have little to do with where our bodies go

My da used to say it's good to test your limits now and then, learn what the body is capable of, what you can endure.

I thought, well, you might see curves there, but that's just a bone - so even if I lose weight that's not going to change anything. That's how I look. That's my shape. Do the math.

Toute démarche qui tend à nous faire mieux accepter les contraintes sociales est dangereuse, et ne peut en aucun cas être qualifiée de "libératrice". C'est pourquoi la "revalorisation du corps des femmes", sans autre précision, est un projet extrêmement ambigu.

Mund të dashurosh edhe një trup dhe asgjë tjetër.

When you talk, your face has more moves than Lebron James.

Developmental psychologists now talk about the cross-modality of language, meaning that language is expressed in various ways. Instead of the image of a brain issuing language to a mouth, from which it emerges as imperfect speech, think, rather, of language emerging in the child as an expression of its entire body, articulating both limbs and mouth at the same time.