Body Quotes
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The bulk of my learning - if I may call it such - has come within the past three months, after I became a part of the fragile body of patients who make up an AIDS hospice. Here, surrounded by teams of supportive nurses, attentive doctors, and interns, one gently comes upon his own strengths and shortcomings.
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I ponder if we are more defined by the container we are in than what we are inside. Would we recognize ourselves if we could expand beyond our bodies?
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Belief like any other moving body follows the path of least resistance.
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Mature love is not a surrender of the self but a surrender to the self. The ego surrenders its hegemony of the personality to the heart, but in this surrender it is not annihilated. Rather it is strengthened because its roots in the body are nourished by the joy that the body feels.
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I was a dancer, so for me, if I don't work out for a week or move my body in some sense, I feel weird.
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Just as you ought not to attempt to cure eyes without head or head without body, so you should not treat body without soul.
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Stimulation-wise, I might be a little bit addicted when it comes to pushing my body to extremes.
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Here in the hospital, I say,that is not my body, not my body.I am not here for the doctorsto read like a recipe.
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The school I went to was a little farm school in Wannaska, student body 61 or something. There was a kid, the only black kid in our county, Dustin Byfuglien. He won the Stanley Cup a couple years back with the Blackhawks. Out of a class of 21 kids, he and I always had to be on opposite teams on everything because we were the most athletic.
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Your body is precious. It is our vehicle for awakening. Treat it with care.
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It's hard to see someone with a 'perfect' body and be like, 'Why can't I be like her?' But that person was born to be who she is, and you're born to be who you are.
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Every body type is different - that's what makes you unique. What makes you special is you, and you are different from the next person.
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The only thing I consider appalling would be to suddenly become a vegetable and a burden on other people. A soul slowly dying out, trapped in a body in which the insides gradually sabotage me - that, I think, would be terrifying.
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I don't fixate on other people's opinions of my body.
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A growing body of clinical observation has pointed to the conclusion that the family therapy must be oriented to the family as a whole.
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My body became aligned with my identity, and it was profound.
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I grew up being into sports and I wasn't trained to move my body in the right way for dancing. I'm the last one to get any moves correct. In rehearsals it's always, 'OK, one more take for Zac.'
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Your body has space within you that cannot die.
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No woman is completely happy with their body.
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I'm a woman who is very confident with the body, with my body.
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I don't have parts of my body that I hate or would like to trade for somebody else's or wish I could surgically adjust into some fantasy version of what they are.
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I never had a prejudiced bone in my body.
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Being married, I've got so many things to do that I am the last to do things for myself. Taking care of my body has been difficult, but I am doing the best that I can.
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Teaching is a sacred art. This is why the noblest druid is not the one who conjures fires and smoke but the one who brings the news and passes on the histories. The teacher, the bard, the singer of tales is a freer of men's minds and bodies, especially when he roams without allegiance to one chieftain or another. But he is also a danger to the masters if he insists upon telling the truth. The truth will inevitably cause tremors in those who cling to power without honoring justice.
