Body Quotes
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Know then that the body is merely a garment. Go seek the wearer, not the cloak.
Rumi -
The water reached up for her, pulled her down tenderly out of the heat, seeped in her hair and ran into the corners of her body. She turned round and round in it, embracing it, wallowing in it.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Jared told her he used to be an exotic dancer in San Francisco.' 'My body is a gift from God,' Jared said gravely. 'Except for my hips, which are clearly a gift from the devil.
Sarah Rees Brennan -
My brain cannot conceive how old my body is.
Michael Douglas -
Charlotte, having seen his body Borne before her on a shutter, Like a well-conducted person, Went on cutting bread and butter.
William Makepeace Thackeray -
How this is possible is, first, by being, literally, several in a single body. “We are twelve in my body. We are packed like sardines.” In other words, the being that I am exists each time in several modes—or, let us say, several beings, which, although sometimes mutually exclusive, are nevertheless inside one another.
Achille Mbembe -
Perhaps the rebuilding of the body and spirit is the greatest service derivable from our forests, for what worth are material things if we lose the character and quality of people that are the soul of America?
Arthur Carhart -
We have a tendency to be in our heads’ … Dancing is about letting go of the mind [and] the ego and finding the power of the body.
Carrie Ann Inaba
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Every experience I've had in my life is a resource in my body.
Anna Halprin -
Purity of soul and impurity of body can go together.
Vincent Van Gogh -
If you have the right mind, your body can do anything.
Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar -
I was like a Borscht Belt comedian trapped in the body of a 6-year-old. I was channeling Jackie Mason at 7.
Josh Gad -
If something's wrong with my body, I make sure to address it right away and not try to let it linger because it creates a bigger problem. You just have to understand your body, and when your body tells you something you just have to react.
Champ Bailey -
I live my life because I dare. I dare to show up when everyone else might hide their faces and hide their bodies in shame.
Gabourey Sidibe
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I am just going. Have me decently buried; and do not let my body be put into the Vault in less than three days after I am dead.... Tis well.
George Washington -
You release more toxins from the body through a deep exhale than you do from anything else.
Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa -
I've come to some balance now and calmness. If anything happened to me and I got hit by a bus - I hope this doesn't happen, but if something happened - my body of work is something I could rest on. I don't feel, "Oh God, I have to hurry up . . ."
Sandra Cisneros -
Why are our bodies soft, and weak, and smooth But that our soft conditions and our hearts Should well agree with our external parts?
William Shakespeare -
Illness is the result of improper removal of toxins from the body. Oxygen is the vital factor which assists the body in removing toxins.
Ed McCabe -
To lose our connection with the body is to become spiritually homeless. Without an anchor we float aimlessly, battered by the winds and waves of life
Anodea Judith
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In whatever you are doing, be one: body, soul, mind. Do it beautifully and with purity.
Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar -
When you eat a carrot that is nothing but carrot it zooms through your system as a carrot. When you eat a piece of mass-produced carrot cake that contains 32 ingredients, your metabolism screeches to a halt while your body tries to figure out what all those things are that you just swallowed, and what it is supposed to do with them. Therefore, the problem isn’t “fat”, its piles of excess ingredients your body’s stacked on shelves and vowed to sort out later.
Cathy Guisewite -
Order is a necessary condition for making a structure function. A physical mechanism, be it a team of laborers, the body of an animal, or a machine, can work only if it is in physical order.
Rudolf Arnheim -
Asanas keep your body, as well as your mind, healthy and active
Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar