Body Quotes
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...it is certain that I am really distinct from my body, and can exist without it.
Rene Descartes
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A nation is a body of people who have done great things together.
Ernest Renan
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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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From the body of one guilty deed a thousand ghostly fears and haunting thoughts proceed.
William Wordsworth
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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
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She has learned that her body is precious and it mustn't be offered carelessly ever again, as it holds a direct connection to her heart.
Steve Martin
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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
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Love labor: for if thou dost not want it for food, thou mayest for physic. It is wholesome for thy body and good for thy mind.
William Penn
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If you want to get the body you've always dreamed of, you have to earn it.
Richard Simmons
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My body had taken on a life of its own, in which it wept while I remained an embarrassed parent, unable to control its excesses.
Amanda Craig
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The only way to be happy and be a more enjoyable person to be around is to embrace what you've got. Everyone has issues about their body, but I feel confident now. I'm healthy and happy.
Mischa Barton
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I wasn't out drinking and abusing my body. I simply loved to go out and dance.
Willie Stargell
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In all my stories and novels, no one ever escapes Louisiana. Maybe that is because my soul never left Louisiana, although my body did go to California.
Ernest Gaines
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I don't want to be looked at. I really want to be a home body.
Marina Ann Hantzis aTelecine
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Under the continual contact with the pebbles my feet have become hardened and used to the ground. My body, almost constantly nude, no longer suffers from the sun. Civilization is falling from me little by little. I am beginning to think simply, to feel only very little hatred for my neighbor - rather, to love him.
Paul Gauguin
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Our destiny is to become what we think, to have our thoughts become our bodies and our bodies become our thoughts.
Terence McKenna
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Women are socially disadvantaged in controlling sexual access to their bodies through socialization to customs that define a woman's body as for sexual use by men. Sexual access is regularly forced or pressured or routinized beyond denial.
Catharine MacKinnon
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There is no such thing as a healthy cleanse. It's the worst thing you can do for your body.
Harley Pasternak
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My experience of my body was her experience once removed, which meant my body was dissolved, and that’s all I’d ever really wanted from my body, such as it was.
Ben Lerner
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That which serves our spirits enhances our bodies. That which diminishes our spirits diminishes our bodies.
Caroline Myss
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It all comes down to confidence: your body can do great things only if it believes it can accomplish them.
Georges St-Pierre
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Tuesday night at the Bible study we lift our hands and pray over your body, but nothing ever happens.
Sufjan Stevens
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If I write what my soul thinks it will be visible, and the words will be its body.
Helen Keller
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And how much better to die in all the happy period of undisillusioned youth, to go out in a blaze of light, than to have your body worn out and old and illusions shattered.
Ernest Hemingway