Quotes About Body

I had not known, before us, that every vein in my body was capable of carrying light, like a river seen from a train makes a channel of sky etch itself deep into a landscape. I had not really known I could be so much more than myself. I had not known another body could do this to mine.

gold mould as if blisters of the body can become precious metals.

It's on my head, Elisabeth says. That's where it grows. And my face is also attached to my head.

she was crooning to herself: "Oh, my back and oh, my bones ! Oh, my back and oh, my bones!

Doing this in the context of this very descriptive book about the human body conveyed the message "This is just a natural part of your body.

Why did we stop running and playing? We loved it so much. Who made the rule that the child's pleasure in the body must come to an end? I blame the Puritans!

Genuine feelings cannot be produced, nor can they be eradicated. We can only repress them, delude ourselves, and deceive our bodies. The body sticks to the facts.

The truth about our childhood is stored up in our body, and although we can repress it, we can never alter it. Our intellect can be deceived, our feelings manipulated, and conceptions confused, and our body tricked with medication. But someday our body will present its bill, for it is as incorruptible as a child, who, still whole in spirit, will accept no compromises or excuses, and it will not stop tormenting us until we stop evading the truth.

It's now strange to live in this body. I don't feel at one with it at all.

Todos os planetas e signos estão envolvidos com o corpo humano, e se você deseja compreender o processo ou a função de algum deles, observe o que ele rege no corpo e como contribui para o todo.

The pain in my stomach had come back and in the form of birds trying to peck their way out of my body.

Just as our parents' souls revolted against God, their bodies revolted against their souls, to which they had been subject. And they realized 'that they were naked.

I began to think that my body was the most special thing in the world. Better than other bodies, even. Not because of the way it looked, but because of all the things it could do. All the different buttons there were to push. I wanted to find out what every single one of them was. I wanted to feel as good as possible.

To Wallace Stevens' post-Nietzschean formula 'God and the imagination are one,' these women poets would add a crucial third element: God and the imagination and my body are one.

In some hard-to-define way, her body felt right, the way some cars felt right, as if the controls had been custom made to your specifications.

If it weren't for the unconventionality of my desires, my mind might never have been forced to reckon with my body.

she felt as if her entire body were glowing with the taste of sunlight, of wind blowing in wide spaces and trees reaching their burdened arms to boundless skies.

I would suddenly be seized with a desire to go down to the beach for a swim. And merely to have imagined the sound of ripples at my feet, and then the smooth feel of the water on my body as I struck out, and the wonderful sensation of relief it gave

It tried to rescue sex from Christian original sin and to recover the union of body and soule of Platonic eros while guaranteeing the reciprocity missing from the Platonic understanding of love and friendship..

students have powerful images of what a perfect body is and pursue it incessantly. But deprived of literary guidance, they no longer have any image of a perfect soul, and hence do not long to have one. They do not even imagine that there is such a thing.

In our culture it is a woman's body which is considered important while it is a man's mind or his activities which are valued. A woman is sexy. A man is successful.

If I had a soul I sold it for pretty words If I had a body I used it up spurting my essence Allen Ginsberg warns you dont follow my path to extinction

Cartesian dualism gave medicine permission to see and to treat the body as manipulable matter, as res extensa,

Grant didn't look like a sophomore - Grant looked like Brad Pitt's body double.