Quotes About Body

Certainly, trying to teach the head while ignoring the body and emotions may account for a great deal of school failure.

A soldier's body is a work of art that contains his country's history.

when your knees become fatter than your legs, start eating again.

The candor of Ann's absolute nakedness, not caught in unselfconsciousness like a young nude in a romantic painting, but fully aware of her erotic power, roused in Evelyn an arrogance of body, a lust that burned through her nerves like the fire of the sun they both stood in. This was the freedom she wanted, an animal freedom exposed to the emptiness of sky and land and water.

The body, the mind, and the spirit don't form a pyramid, they form a circle. Each of them runs into the other two. The body isn't below the mind and the spirit; from the point of view it's between them. if you reside too much in the mind, then you get too abstract and cut off from the world. You long for the spiritual life, but you can't get to it, and you fall into despair. The exercise of the senses frees you from abstraction and opens the way to transcendence.

Fat is not a moral problem. It's an oral problem.

I have gained and lost the same ten pounds so many times over and over again my cellulite must have déjà vu.

A strong intention, a relaxed body and an open mind are the main ingredients for an active birth.

Change will happen slowly, however, unless women refuse to submit to conventional practices and begin to trust their own bodies.

diaphragm, heavy and unassailable by digestive

How many times have I told you not to hit people in the face. You kick them in the body where it doesn't show.

Truth is, I think naked men are kind of strange looking what with their doodles and ding-dong hanging loose like they do. Nevertheless, there's the curiosity thing. I guess it's another one of those car crash experiences, where you feel compelled to look even if you know you'll be horrified.

You would think there's a natural limit to tears: only so much the body can give at one sitting before it runs dry.

A se znamením na t?le, jaké kdys nosívali v?zni, za láskou p?jde, nebo? bez ní je život troškou popele.

Even traumas that we have pushed outside our consciousness affect us deeply. They affect our nervous systems, our bodies, our reactions to events, our choices, our feelings about ourselves and others, and many other aspects of our experience. Out of sight is not out of bodymind.

We are now able to use this recognition of body states as useful messages rather than indications of present threats. And by achieving all of this, we will have achieved wisdom—the integration of emotions, the feelings of the body, and our ongoing conscious awareness and thinking. We will have progressed from the state of being a trauma victim to becoming a trauma survivor.

You will not lift the veil of my body until you lift the veil over my face.

The body itself is pure. It is very good, but often a person's intentions are not. Therefore, the problem with immodesty is not that it reveals too much, but that it obscures the value of the person. Modesty, then, is not about hiding one's body but about revealing one's worth. It is an invitation to contemplation. It conceals certain parts of the body not because they are bad, but in order to invite others to discover one's full value as a person, thus opening a way toward love.

Purity is not about seeing less of the body, but about seeing more of the person.

Parkour is never meant to be a competitive sport, but more of a training technique for the body and mind.

If you really want to be depressed, weigh yourself in grams.

Pleasure demands presence. It invites you to inhabit your body more fully; no part of you is held at remote.

El cuerpo, la mente, las emociones son otras tantas vestiduras del verdadero yo el cual se viste con ellas pero se encuentra en un lugar "fuera" del espacio y el tiempo, más allá de todo concepto y explicación. El contacto con quien verdaderamente somos es la Iluminación. En ella no desaparece la individualidad sino que se expande para abarcarlo todo.

As Dr. Fuhrman shows us, the right nutrients can turn on these abilities, while the wrong nutrients—which are all too common in the standard western diet—can leave these abilities buried forever. The most amazing results, however, come when the body is given a complete rest from the work of digestion and assimilation of food.