Body Quotes
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There is no virtue in penance and fasting which waste the body; they are only fanatical and monkish.
Immanuel Kant
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This body is not a home, but an inn; and that only for a short time. Seneca Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
Aristotle
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I'm like every other girl; there are things I wish I could change about my body, but I try not to think about them too much.
Sara Sampaio
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The nature of matter, or body considered in general, consists not in its being something which is hard or heavy or coloured, or which affects the senses in any way, but simply in its being something which is extended in length, breadth and depth.
Rene Descartes
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Let no Body be afrighted, because so many things are to be learnt, when the learning of them will be so pleasant; how profitable I need not tell you.
Bathsua Makin
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Your body is a wonderland of terror and fear-inducing proportions. Forget the strictures of the male gaze. Dress to impress or cause extreme distress. If other people’s bodies are temples, yours is a war machine with built-in booby traps, baby.
Amerie
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To be a good actor, you need to be able to emote with your body.
Nora Fatehi
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The Pilates Method teaches you to be in control of your body and not at its mercy.
Joseph Pilates
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PiYo gives you hardcore definition, intense calorie burn, and allover strength—without weights, without jumps, and without destroying your body.
Chalene Johnson
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A woman's flexibility and a man's strength . . . put them together and you'll have a body like mine.
Gackt
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The needs of the body are the needs of the divine self, which lives through the body.
Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
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The body has to be invaded by the intelligence; each part has to become intelligent.
Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
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Health is a consumation of a love affair of all the organs of the body.
Plato
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In all Diseases, strengthen the part of the Body afflicted.
Nicholas Culpeper
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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
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As a man, casting off worn out garments taketh new ones, so the dweller in the body, entereth into ones that are new.
Epictetus
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The passions are the voice of the body.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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No attempt of curing the body should be made without curing the soul.
Plato
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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
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I get enough sleep. I take very good care of myself. Growing up as a dancer, you know your body so well, you know what to do to overcome something.
Elizabeth Berkley
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Just because your body is losing inches doesn't mean you're losing weight or vice versa. It's not about the weight: it's about building lean muscle, which is going to increase your metabolism and then allow you to lose weight quicker.
Anna Kaiser
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I remember as a teen being able to eat more than my father. I was growing so fast and my body couldn’t keep up.
Saskia de Brauw
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The forest did not tolerate frailty of body or mind. Show your weakness, and it would consume you without hesitation.
Sayyid Tahir al-Hashimi
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People used to say to my friend Mary, a quadriplegic, 'You still have your mind.' She would say, 'I still have my body.' The world tells me to divorce myself from my flesh, to live in my head. ... I didn't want to be fleshless.
Anne Finger