Theodore Roethke Quotes

The soul has many motions, body one.

Theodore Roethke

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• You should always care about what you're eating because it's your body, and you should always want to eat healthy foods, but dieting tactics in Los Angeles are really confusing. There are so many different weird diets out there.

  

  Laura Slade Wiggins
  • Different
  • Care
  • Weird

• Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is too deep, going too deep in the blood and soul, for mental explanation or description.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Experience
  • Soul
  • Purpose

• 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.

  

  D'Arcy Carden
  • Love
  • Soul
  • Girl

• Our spirit is not dependent on the brain or body. It is eternal, and no one has one sentence worth of hard evidence that it isn't.

  

  Eben Alexander
  • Brain
  • Body
  • Evidence

• I have often thought with wonder of the great goodness of God; and my soul has rejoiced in the contemplation of His great magnificence and mercy. May He be blessed for ever! For I see clearly that He has not omitted to reward me, even in this life, for every one of my good desires.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • Life
  • Good
  • Great

• The sound of the '90s, to me, is a combination of soul and street - it's a feeling.

  

  Nas
  • Soul
  • Feeling
  • Me

• I just want to continue to pursue dancing. I want to focus on making it out there and showing everybody my heart and soul through dance... and do it until I can't walk anymore.

  

  Maddie Ziegler
  • Heart
  • Soul
  • Focus

• The Congo is so fun. The ideal body type coveted by women in the Congo is this extremely curvaceous body. They're going through a number of extreme measures to get that kind of body form, and one of them is by using bouillon cubes.

  

  Hailey Gates
  • Women
  • Fun
  • Body

• Those things that nature denied to human sight, she revealed to the eyes of the soul.

  

  Ovid
  • She
  • Nature
  • Soul

• If I had the day off and knew everyone else was voting, I wouldn't miss it. It would become a routine part of my responsibility as a citizen - like paying taxes, only less soul crushing.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Soul
  • Day
  • Responsibility

• If you have to tell a story without speaking, it's sort of like - I come from a dance background, so it's like a ballet where you have to tell a story with just your body. I think that's really interesting to have to tell a story with just your face and your mannerisms, and I'd like to tap into that world.

  

  Sami Gayle
  • World
  • Interesting
  • Dance

• Boy, it is not fun suffering in this body of weak flesh, but Jesus is straightening out all my crooked places.

  

  Vanity
  • Fun
  • Jesus
  • Suffering

• Just as you go to the gym regularly to keep your body fit, regular couples counseling can keep your relationship fit as well.

  

  Laura Wasser
  • Relationship
  • Body
  • Gym

• I like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more.

  

  e. e. cummings
  • Body
  • Better
  • New

• I'd always wanted to do an R&B and soul record; a friend with a studio asked to come by and record a couple of songs, maybe just make a 45. Then the songs started to pour out, and pretty soon we had eight or 10 songs down.

  

  Nathaniel Rateliff
  • Soul
  • Pretty
  • Friend

• None believeth in the soul of man, but only in some man or person old and departed.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Soul

• The soul of Man must quicken to creation.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Soul

• I held my breath, for to me there is nothing more awe-inspiring than when a man discovers to you the nakedness of his soul.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Soul

• I have not only found good health, but perfect health; I have found a new state of being, a potentiality of life; a sense of lightness and cleanness and joyfulness, such as I did not know could exist in the human body.

  

  Upton Sinclair
  • Life
  • Good
  • Perfect

• Controlling the position of one's body and keeping a straight back are not contemplation, but can in fact become an obstacle to contemplation. ...when leaving the body 'uncontrolled' is spoken of, what is meant is simply allowing the body to remain in an authentic, uncorrected condition, in which it is not necessary to modify or improve anything. This is because, since all our attempts at correcting the body come from the reasoning mind, they are all false and artificial.

  

  Namkhai Norbu
  • Mind
  • Body
  • Leaving

• On the breast of her gown, in fine red cloth, surrounded with an elaborate embroidery and fantastic flourishes of gold thread, appeared the letter A.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Red
  • Gold

• Then lies him down the lubber fiend,And stretched out all the chimney's length,Basks at the fire his hairy strength.

  

  John Milton
  • Fire
  • Lies

• It is with just that hope that we welcome everything that tends to strengthen the fibre and develop the nature on more sides. When the intellect and affections are in harmony; when intellectual consciousness is calm and deep; inspiration will not be confounded with fancy.

  

  Margaret Fuller
  • Nature
  • Inspiration
  • Intellect

• The soul has many motions, body one.

  

  Theodore Roethke
  • Soul
  • Body
  • Motions