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Quotes About Body

When I dance, I look like I'm a dad at a prom. I never grasped my limbs. Ever since puberty I've just kind of felt like we don't understand each other.
~ Jennifer Lawrence
The Celts were fearless warriors because they wish to inculcate this as one of their leading tenets, that souls do not become extinct, but pass after death from one body to another.
~ Julius Caesar
Consciousness after death demonstrates the possibility of consciousness operating independently of the body.
~ Stanislav Grof
The soul is a magician. Only living flesh hampers it.
~ Unknown
Shame on the body for breaking down while the spirit perseveres.
~ John Dryden
The study of consciousness that can extend beyond the body is extremely important for the issue of survival, since it is this part of human personality that would be likely to survive death.
~ Stanislav Grof
When I die, I'm leaving my body to science fiction.
~ Steven Wright
The body's ills are the least of ills, for they end only in death, which is but a little thing. But if the spirit dies, then all is lost.
~ Michael Flynn, Eifelheim
Death was in every sell of his body. He gave off a faint, greenish steam of decay. Lee imagined he would glow in the dark.
~ William S. Burroughs
You have the body of an old man, the life of an old man, the past of an old man, and the instinctive force of a two-year-old.
~ Philip Roth
to know, and by knowledge to lift up the mind from the dungeon of the body to the enjoying his own divine essence
~ Philip Sidney
God reproduces and lives out His image in millions of ordinary people like us. It is a supreme mystery. We are called to bear that image as a Body because any one of us taken individually would present an incomplete image, one partly false and always distorted, like a single glass chip hacked from a mirror. But collectively, in all our diversity, we can come together as a community of believers to restore the image of God in the world. (In His Image, Philip Yancey and Dr. Paul Brand, p. 40)
~ Philip Yancey
a sick person is not a sick person, but rather a person of worth and value who happens to have some bodily parts that are not functioning well.
~ Philip Yancey
Our society arbitrarily defines health as the capacity for work and the capacity for enjoyment, but "true health is something quite different. True health is the strength to live, the strength to suffer, and the strength to die. Health is not a condition of my body; it is the power of my soul to cope with the varying condition of that body.
~ Philip Yancey
the healthiest body is the one that feels the pain of its weakest parts. In
~ Philip Yancey
Dr. Brand said, in a comment that has always stayed with me, "A healthy body attends to the pain of the weakest part.
~ Philip Yancey
in the mirror. Her breasts were inches higher than their usual position, it
~ Philippa Gregory
For your information, Lester, there are at least five wonderful parts of the female body that can be viewed by the owner only with a hand mirror.
~ Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
For your information, Lester, there are at least five wonderful parts of the female body that can be viewed by the owner only with a hand mirror.' And as they stared after me, I went regally back down the hallway and up the stairs to Dad's room.
~ Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
The following questions and explorations will lead you to a better awareness of your body and your swing on the course. When you can play an entire hole swinging with 50 percent tempo, you'll begin to appreciate how many more options you have for your game.
~ Unknown
Il faut apprendre la terre, c'est indispensable, savoir ce qu'elle est. Il faut l'aimer sans niaiserie, en reconnaître les principales maternels et nourriciers. Il faut la travailler en tenant compte du savoir et du sentiment, avec la force du corps. (p.242)
~ Unknown
Wenda's chest and hips shrank, her shoulders and arms turned muscular and her body became lean and hard where it had been rounded and soft. The hair of her head shortened drastically, and a mustache sprouted on her upper lip. Her delicate human feet had become hard hooves. She was now not a nymph but a faun. Physically; she would never be male in spirit.
~ Piers Anthony
And as I said, him too! Now this one had possibilities," he said, bringing up the doll. "You ever been in someone else's body, bumpkin?" "No, not exactly that way—
~ Piers Anthony
Wars and revolutions and battles, you see, are due simply and solely to the body and its desires. All wars are undertaken for the acquisition of wealth; and the reason why we have to acquire wealth is the body, because we are slaves in its service.
~ Plato