Body Quotes

• Swinburne was an absurd character. He was a bird of showy strut and plumage. One could not but admire his glorious feathers; but, as soon as he began to moult ... one saw how very little body there was underneath.

  

  Robert Wilson Lynd
  • Character
  • Body
  • Bird

• I see tendencies, I see body language.

  

  Michael Chang
  • Language
  • Body
  • Tendencies

• People can say I'm fat but I know my own body. I always look big because I'm bigger built - I've got that Wayne Rooney type of body.

  

  Luke Shaw
  • Body
  • Big
  • Type

• The body with its perfect mechanism loses power, magnetism, beauty, and brightness, when the soul departs from the body. This shows that the power, magnetism, beauty, and brightness belong to the soul.

  

  Hazrat Inayat Khan
  • Power
  • Beauty
  • Magnetism

• Anybody can and should dance... It's good for the body and the spirit.

  

  Isadora Duncan
  • Dance
  • Body
  • Spirit

• You've got muscles and you use them everywhere else in your body when you want it. Why not your face?

  

  Catherine O'Hara
  • Faces
  • Use
  • Muscles

• I already knew to eat clean and listen to my body, to only eat when I was in a calm mental state. Everyone knew. But when you're fat in the head, it's never about knowing the answers. It's about living them.

  

  Stephanie Klein
  • Health
  • Calm
  • Answers

• She learned that an act intended to express love could have nothing to do with it. That her heart and her body were different things.

  

  Jhumpa Lahiri
  • Different
  • Heart
  • Body

• We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.

  

  Marcel Proust
  • Body
  • Creature
  • Kingdom

• For every man, peace of soul is precious. With those who have attained peace of soul, the body can be in constant motion; in work, in pain, but their souls, affixed to God, always remain in unwavering peace.

  

  Nikolaj Velimirovic
  • Soul
  • Peace
  • Body

• Doctors can heal the body, but it is music that uplifts the spirit.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Music
  • Spirit
  • Doctors

• 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
  • Desire
  • Sexuality
  • Betray

• The soul that suffered from being its body…

  

  Amy King
  • Soul
  • Body
  • Suffered

• The more a body tries to explode all the foolish myths that have grown up about Texas by telling the truth, the more a body will wind up adding to the mythology.

  

  Molly Ivins
  • Foolish
  • Myth
  • Mythology

• Scientific knowledge is a body of statements of varying degrees of certainty -- some most unsure, some nearly sure, none absolutely certain.

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Certain
  • Degrees
  • Certainty

• When you realize that we're the spirit that's in our bodies and our bodies are like the vehicles that take us around, you realize that you have to take care of that body.

  

  Melissa Etheridge
  • Care
  • Spirit
  • Realizing

• If you ask me to get a six-pack in the interim between signing a film, I will not do it. I enjoy food and will be happy to feed myself a pizza or two and gorge on cakes. But, I have good control over my body.

  

  R. Madhavan
  • Food
  • Control
  • Film

• People think athleticism is just physical, but it's not. It's connected to the brain and how the brain can learn to execute and see a movement or not. Especially at high speed. Being athletic is not just jumping and running and being powerful. It's the nervous system that guides the body. The muscles don't decide anything. The brain decides and makes things happen.

  

  Georges St-Pierre
  • Powerful
  • Brain
  • Speed

• Our culture takes us out of the body and sells our loyalty into political systems, into religions, into inanimate objects and machines, collections, so forth and so on. The felt experience of the body is what the psychedelics are handing back to us.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Political
  • Culture
  • Loyalty

• I do love exercise. I do love yoga, which keeps my body nice and healthy.

  

  Erin Richards
  • Body
  • Exercise
  • Healthy

• When you're using a long brush, you have your arm at full length. Basically, it exaggerates the movement of your body. But I always start far away and end up really close.

  

  Brice Marden
  • Body
  • Arm
  • Brush

• If you are not careful your soul will wear out long before your body.

  

  Eliot Pattison
  • Soul
  • Body
  • Wear

• When you are in vibrational harmony, your body produces whatever it needs to remain in perfect balance.

  

  Esther Hicks
  • Perfect
  • Balance
  • Harmony

• When I wrote 'The Good Body,' I turned 40 and suddenly had this stomach. It seemed like the end of the world. Because I didn't value my body. I was constantly judging it, but I also didn't live in it.

  

  Eve Ensler
  • Value
  • Body
  • Judging

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