Quotes on Body

No one has the right to criticize you for how your body looks, but they will. One thing I've learned from experiencing this exact kind of criticism is that no one else can label your body except for you. No one gets to have a place in your mind if they weren't invited there by you. So please do me this one favor: Don't let their ugly words into your beautiful mind.

In truth, you are spirit. The body has been projected by the mind, which itself originates from Spirit.

This is the wisdom: If we bless our bodies, they will bless us.

The most important part of a player's body is above his shoulders.

Animals give us their constant, unjaded faces, and we burden them with our bodies and civilized ordeals.

Memory that yearns to join the centre, a limb remembering the body from which it has been severed, like those bamboo thighs of the god.

The influence of prayer on the human mind and body is as demonstrable as that of secreting glands. Its results can be measured in terms of increased physical buoyancy, greater intellectual vigor, moral stamina, and a deeper understanding of the realities underlying human relationship.

If you consciously let your body take care of you, it will become your greatest ally and trusted partner.

A gentle focus of attention is all it takes to free the body of minor imbalances.

Every emotion is keyed into some bodily location, and taken all together, they form the emotional body.

The concepts "soul", "spirit" and last of all the concept "immortal soul" were invented in order to despise the body, in order to make it sick - "holy" - in order to cultivate an attitude of appalling disrespect for all things in life which deserve to be treated seriously i.

One always overcompensates for disabilities. I'm thinking of having my entire body surgically removed.

CONGRESS, n. A body of men who meet to repeal laws.

When the body is still healthy and diseaseless, When old age has not yet attacked it

The sign of vigour, the sign of life, the sign of hope, the sign of health, the sign of everything that is good, is strength. As long as the body lives, there must be strength in the body, strength in the mind, [and strength] in the hand.

Pay particular attention to your health, but too much coddling of the body will, on the contrary, also spoil the health.

The bathroom door swings open. Emma sees the blood painting my skin and the red rivers carved on my body. Emma sees the wet knife, silver and bone. The screams of my little sister shatter mirrors.

Perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away, when a body has been stripped down to its nakedness.

Spots are on the surface of the solar body where they are produced and also dissolved, some in shorter and others in longer periods. They are carried around the Sun; an important occurrence in itself.

I think also, that general virtue is more probably to be expected and obtained from the education of youth, than from exhortations of adult persons; bad habits and vices of the mind being, like diseases of the body, more easily prevented than cured. I think moreover, that talents for the education of youth are the gift of God; and that he on whom they are bestowed, whenever a way is opened for use of them, is as strongly called as if he heard a voice from heaven.

The finer the instrument, the greater the power. The mind is much finer and more powerful than the body.