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Quotes About Body

Appreciate your changing body, love your evolving story; and see the big picture. It all fits together because your face tells the story of your life; your changing body is a history of incredible experience.
~ Unknown
Your skin is not paper, don't cut it. Your face isn't a mask, don't cover it. Your size isn't a book, don't judge it. Your life isn't a film, don't end it.
~ Unknown
Life isn't about how to survive the storm,it's about how to dance in the rain. You have every right to a beautiful life. NEVER be ashamed of your problems... Your body... Yourself... YOU are worth LIFE. If you believe in yourself anything is possible.
~ Unknown
my body ... faithful guardian of a past which my mind should never have forgotten, brought back before my eyes ....
~ Marcel Proust
when the fortress of the body is besieged on all sides the mind must at length succumb.
~ Marcel Proust
now my weary limbs turned to it for support; so that, in turn, thighs, hips, shoulders burrowed into, trying to adhere at every angle to, the sheets that covered its mattress, as if my fatigue, like a sculptor, had wished to take a cast of an entire human body.
~ Marcel Proust
Certainly, the physical heartache which such a separation deals and which, through the body's terrible ability to keep records, renders any pain contemporary with all the periods in our lives when we have suffered,
~ Marcel Proust
but more potent, which is not content with questioning the body but can command it, a febrifuge of the same order as the modern aspirin, which had not then come into use. We had not shaken the thermometer down below 99.5, and hoped that it would not have to rise from there
~ Marcel Proust
corps astral à Golo.
~ Marcel Proust
Life on Earth is quite a bargain. Dreams, for one, don't charge admission. Illusions are only costly when lost. The body has its own installment plan. —Wis?awa Szymborska, "Here
~ Unknown
A man is a little soul carrying around a courpse.
~ Unknown
You are a little soul carrying about a corpse.
~ Marcus Aurelius
There's an old SEAL motto: Never assume a frogman's dead unless you find his body.
~ Marcus Luttrell
Cooper was halfway out of his chair with realizing he'd moved, his body on full combat alert. His mind spinning
~ Marcus Sakey
Aging was essentially decay, the exhaustion of the body's ability to repair and renew itself.
~ Marcus Sakey
she was so small, you couldn't help but imagine what she looked like naked.
~ Marcus Sakey
Cold didn't worry him unduly. Given that his normal body temperature was way below human levels, the dip in the river had been no more than refreshing, certainly not deadly.
~ Marcus Sedgwick
Just as the soul fills the body, so God fills the world. Just as the soul bears the body, so God endures the world. Just as the soul sees but is not seen, so God sees but is not seen. Just as the soul feeds the body, so God gives food to the world.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
But the Duchess's Soul being troubled, that her dear Lord and Husband used such a violent exercise before meat, for fear of overheating himself, without any consideration of the Empress's Soul, left her Æreal Vehicle, and entred into her Lord. The Empress's Soul perceiving this, did the like: And then the Duke had three Souls in one Body; and had there been some such Souls more, the Duke would have been like the Grand-Signior in his Seraglio, onely it would have been a Platonick Seraglio.
~ Margaret Cavendish
That this multitude of pores was the cause of the blackness of the Coal; for, said they, a body that has so many pores, from each of which no light is reflected, must necessarily look black, since black is nothing else but a privation of light, or a want of reflection.
~ Margaret Cavendish
We women are constantly at war with our bodies, it is hard to find amnesty for ourselves.
~ Margaret Cho
A house is no home unless it contain food and fire for the mind as well as for the body.
~ Margaret Fuller
A house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.
~ Margaret Fuller
It is a necessary part of a rule of life to cherish our bodies, care for them, and see the beauty in their intricate design. But too often, most of us - men and women both - come to dislike them as the years pass, or at the very least to feel that they need major remodeling... We fight to stave off aging or at least to disguise it. Yet in his first letter to the Corinthians, Paul reminds us of the sanctity of the body (1 Cor. 6:19-20)...
~ Unknown