Body Quotes
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Nelson’s body was pickled in brandy, which was replaced with wine at Gibraltar, and brought back to England, amid macabre speculation that the Admiral’s crew had drunk the embalming brandy in transit.
Catharine Arnold
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For me, what's compelling about sexuality is the way that desire transforms what we take in through our senses, the ways in which our bodies betray us or rescue us by insisting on their own non-negotiable truths. Anything but frank or pragmatic.
Catherine Brady
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My single pair of eyes Contain the universe they see; Their mirrored multiplicity Is packed into a hollow body Where I reflect the many, in my one.
Stephen Spender
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Whenever we find stiffness in the body, our mind should be especially supple. It is never the stiffness in our bodies that limits our practice, it is always the stiffness of our mind.
Geeta Iyengar
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It is through the body that everything comes to the mind. It is through and with your body that you have to reach realization of being a spark of divinity. How can we neglect the temple of the spirit?
Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
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Was there any form of filth or crime without at least one Jew involved in it? If you cut into such a sore, you find, like a maggot in a rotting body, often dazzled by the sudden light, a Jew.
Adolf Hitler
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There is no great difficulty to separate the soul from the body, but it is not so easy to restore life to the dead.
Saadi
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I find it unbearable to need a body in order to exist.
Cees Nooteboom
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The only thing I use my body for is to carry my brain around.
Thomas A. Edison
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Once we open up to the flow of energy within our body, we can also open up to the flow of energy in the universe.
Wilhelm Reich
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Although the road is never ending take a step and keep walking, do not look fearfully into the distance... On this path let the heart be your guide for the body is hesitant and full of fear.
Rumi
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For neither does wealth bring honour to the owner, if he be a coward; of such a one the wealth belongs to another, and not to himself. Nor does beauty and strength of body, when dwelling in a base and cowardly man, appear comely, but the reverse of comely, making the possessor more conspicuous, and manifesting forth his cowardice.
Plato
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You have to want it, you have to plan for it, you have to fit it into a busy day, you have to be mentally tough, you have to use others to help you. The hard part isn't getting your body in shape. The hard part is getting your mind in shape.
Amby Burfoot
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If you are ruled by mind you are a king; if by body, a slave.
Cato the Elder
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Here feel we but the penalty of Adam, The seasons' difference, as the icy fang And churlish chiding of the winter's wind, Which, when it bites and blows upon my body, Even till I shrink with cold, I smile.
William Shakespeare
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O impotence of mind, in body strong! But what is strength without a double share Of wisdom, vast, unwieldy, burdensome, Proudly secure, yet liable to fall By weakest subtleties, not made to rule, But to subserve where wisdom bears command.
John Milton
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Whatever your body type is, just use it.
Amanda Bingson
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And if the body were not the soul, what is the soul?
Walt Whitman
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Cancer - a more or less permanent traffic jam in the body.
Andreas Moritz
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When the body escaped mutilation, seldom did the heart go to the grave unscarred.
Virginia Woolf
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You can control what you put in your body - 100 percent. You really can control your level of fitness and how your body looks.
Sara Rue
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Today the path of total dictatorship in the United States can be laid by strictly legal means, unseen and unheard by the Congress, the President, or the people. Outwardly we have a Constitutional government. We have operating within our government and political system, another body representing another form of government - a bureaucratic elite.
William E. Jenner
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A simple yet profound way to create a healthy body, a stress-free mind, and a peaceful sense of well-being.
Aaron Hoopes
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Certainly man is of kin to the beasts by his body; and if he be not kin to God by his spirit, he is a base and ignoble creature.
Francis Bacon