Erica Jong Quotes
The body is wiser than its inhabitants. the body is the soul. the body is god’s messenger.
Quotes to Explore
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We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.
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Let my soul smile through my heart and my heart smile through my eyes, that I may scatter rich smiles in sad hearts.
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I think that ballet is very good for the body. It's very similar to yoga, because you have to hold a position.
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A woman's body is her body and what she wears or does not wear is her choice. Get over it and move on.
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I listen to crazy, robust rock music where they sing their faces off, and soul music, which can be similar.
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I love C-3PO; I love the girl from 'Ex Machina' - these kind of robots that have so much soul that you feel for them.
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My body will never go back to what it was, and I wouldn't expect it to after three babies.
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Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it finds.
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We need worship for our spirit, fellowship for our soul and committed subservience for our body.
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The physical ego, the active consciousness in man, should uplift its body-identified self into unity with the soul, its true nature; it should not allow itself to remain mired in the lowly delusive strata of the senses and material entanglement.
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I'm not ready to be a woman yet, I'd like it if my body were more boyish. Maybe I'll like my curves when I'm older but right now they kind of make me squirm.
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Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
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If ever I feel the soul within me elevate and expand to those dimensions not wholly unworthy of its Almighty Architect, it is when I contemplate the cause of my country, deserted by all the world beside, and I standing up boldly and lone and hurling defiance at her victorious oppressors.
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Gandalf saves the world and saves the soul of the world, really.
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One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.
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Do activities you're passionate about - which make your heart and soul feel perky - including things like working out, cooking, painting, writing, yoga, hiking, walking, swimming, being in nature, being around art, or reading inspiring books.
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When death comes, it is not enough to have been charitable; and it is not right to touch the body or lay it out for a couple of hours; for the soul should be given time to fight for itself, and to go up to judgment.
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The worst diets are ones that restrict your calories too much and try to trick your body. You have no energy, and it's ridiculous.
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There are no plains in the spiritual life; we are either going uphill or coming down. Furthermore the pose of indifference is only intellectual. The will must choose. And even though an 'indifferent' soul does not positively reject the infinite, the infinite rejects it.
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When the body is sad, the heart languishes.
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I met my wife, Nia Vardalos, at The Second City, and she was chomping at the bit to move to L.A.
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I never dread going back to Congress.
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This woman is a genius in the day time and a beauty at night.
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The body is wiser than its inhabitants. the body is the soul. the body is god’s messenger.
