Body Quotes
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Mountains are to the rest of the body of the earth, what violent muscular action is to the body of man. The muscles and tendons of its anatomy are, in the mountain, brought out with force and convulsive energy, full of expression, passion, and strength.
John Ruskin
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More valuable than treasures in a storehouse are the treasures of the body. The most valuable of all are the treasures of the heart.
Nichiren
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Body awareness puts us in touch with our inner world.
Bessel van der Kolk
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I really like the structure of my body. It moves well, it looks good, it photographs well, it understands gesture and nuance.
Carrie Mae Weems
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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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As human voice and instrument blend in one harmony, as human soul and body blend in each act of feeling, thought, or speech, so, as far as we can know, divinity and humanity act together in the thought and heart and act of the one Christ.
Archibald Alexander Hodge
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A woman relinquishes her unfettered right to control her own body when her actions cause the conception of a baby.
Dennis Richardson
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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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Oh Earth, you gave me all I have, I love you, I love you, - oh what have IThat I can give you in return - Except my body after I die?
Sara Teasdale
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For Punjabis like me, we have to work a little harder on our body.
Mona Singh
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How, without clothes, could we possess the master organ, soul's seat and true pineal gland of the body social--I mean a purse?
Thomas Carlyle
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The body is like a sentence that invites us to rearrange it, so that its real meaning becomes clear through a series of endless anagrams.
Hans Bellmer
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But what is the heart, madame? It's worth less than people think. it's quite accommodating, it accepts anything. You give it whatever you have, it's not very particular. But the body... Ha! That's something else again! It has a cultivated taste, as they say, it knows what it wants. A heart doesn't choose, and one always ends up by loving.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
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I have never seen anybody, and I don't think there has ever been anybody like Nick Diaz in all of MMA. Can you tell me another guy who is going to stand right in front of you, take big shots, and still keep coming at you with those body shots and those amazing combinations?
Eddie Bravo
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The eye— it cannot choose but see; we cannot bid the ear be still; our bodies feel, where'er they be, against or with our will.
William Wordsworth
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When I'm working, I always eat around 5:30-6 P.M. I don't eat anything after that because I don't think you should put anything into your body before bed.
Engelbert Humperdinck
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I was having an out-of-body experience, it was so hot. I felt I was watching someone play in a blue dress, and it wasn't me.
Serena Williams
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The soul has many motions, body one.
Theodore Roethke
