Body Quotes
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One certainly has a soul; but how it came to allow itself to be enclosed in a body is more than I can imagine.
Lord Byron
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A Locanian having plucked all the feathers off from a nightingale and seeing what a little body it had, "surely," quoth he, "thou art all voice and nothing else.
Plutarch
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No matter how dilapidated, scarred and mutilated your body, I have always found you beautiful, for it is the soul beneath I seek.
Susan Barker
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There are two noble things in life: one to do charity and other to look after your body.
Fauja Singh
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So much of 'Mudbound' is about man's relationship to the land and to the elements. It's about the desire for control and how powerless we are against nature. We always knew we would shoot widescreen as a means to isolate a body in the frame and to highlight our own insignificance.
Rachel Morrison
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The soul, like the body, accepts by practice whatever habit one wishes it to contact.
Socrates
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My brain cannot conceive how old my body is.
Michael Douglas
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As the body cannot be sustained without corporeal food, nor continue in natural life, so without this life-giving food the soul cannot persist in the spiritual life of grace.
Denis the Carthusian
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The body is a self-healing organism, so it's really about clearing things out of the way so the body can heal itself.
Barbara Brennan
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Maybe the body is taking responsibility where the mind is not. It's scrapbooking for us.
Heidi Julavits
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Consciousness is what makes the mind-body problem really intractable.
Thomas Nagel
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Girls are taught to be so afraid to take up any "space," even with their own bodies, and hair is a part of that. I'm glad to not be a part of that!
Petra Collins
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According to scriptures at least I know the Bible states not to make any permanent marks on your body.
Bill Vaughan
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I believe we lose immortality because we have not conquered our opposition to death; we keep insisting on the primary, rudimentary idea: that the whole body should be kept alive. We should seek to preserve only the part that has to do with consciousness.
Adolfo Bioy Casares
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When I was in Nashville, Tennessee in 1970 with Derek and the Dominoes, I went into this shop and they had a rack of Strats and Teles - all going for $100.00 each. I bought a handfull and made Blackie out of the body from one, the neck from another, and so on
Eric Clapton Blind Faith
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Don't make the body do what the spirit does best, and don't put a big load on the spirit that the body could easily carry.
Rumi
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I can look at cancer as a disease that picks me out and 'why me,' or I can look at it through love and say, 'This is a wake-up call. This is my body telling me: 'Hey, you're out of balance here. It's time to get in line with yourself.'
Melissa Etheridge
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I find nothing wrong with the naked body.
Moira Kelly
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When my body gets so overexerted with energy, I just keep going and going.
Bert McCracken
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Juggling is a conversation with the stick, the body, the brain.
Michael Moschen
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When Stories nestle in the body, soul comes forth.
Deena Metzger
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Obviously as I'm getting older, I'm seeing changes in my body that I may not like... but I do love food, and I'm from the South. I'm not gonna lie, I eat fried chicken, I love macaroni and cheese, and I love grits.
Erin Andrews
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The body stores the trauma of our lives in muscular rigidity, thereby keeping us stuck in the past. When we release the tension in the body and align ourselves with gravity, we take a new stand in life. This allows us to be at ease with ourselves and in harmony in our relationship to others and to our planet.
Joseph Heller
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We are a Body of contradiction, flesh-full and fleshless.
Catherynne M. Valente