Human Body Quotes - Page 4

• The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.

  Iris Murdoch

  Life, Relationship, Marriage

  Iris Murdoch (2003). “The Black Prince”, p.273, Penguin

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• The human body is something that I truly love, above all else.

  Giorgio Armani

  Body, Humans

  Interview with Daniela Morera, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 21, 2008.

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• Ayurveda is the science of life and it has a very basic, simple kind of approach, which is that we are part of the universe and the universe is intelligent and the human body is part of the cosmic body, and the human mind is part of the cosmic mind, and the atom and the universe are exactly the same thing, but with different form, and the more we are in touch with this deeper reality, from where everything comes, the more we will be able to heal ourselves and at the same time heal our planet.

  Deepak Chopra

  Simple, Reality, Intelligent

  Interview with Veronica M. Hay, www.peopleandpossibilities.com.

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• Some springs are acid, as at Lyncestus and in Italy in the Velian country, at Teano in Campania, and in many other places. These when used in drinks have the power of breaking up stones in the bladder, which form in the human body.

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  Country, Spring, Body

  "De architectura (Ten Books on Architecture)". Book by Marcus Vitruvius Pollio (Book VII, Chapter III, Section 17), circa 15 BC.

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• The psyche is the inward experience of the human body, which is essentially the same in all human beings, with the same organs, the same instincts, the same impulses, the same conflicts, the same fears. Out of this common ground have come what Jung has called the archetypes, which are the common ideas of myths.

  Joseph Campbell

  Ideas, Inward, Body

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.60, Anchor

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• most economists, like doctors, are reluctant to make predictions, and those who make them are seldom accurate. The economy, like the human body, is a highly complex system whose workings are not thoroughly understood.

  Alice Rivlin

  Doctors, Body, Economics

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• There's an idea that the human body is somehow evil and bad and there are parts of it that are especially evil and bad, and we should be ashamed. Fear, guilt and shame are built into the attitude toward sex and the body. It's reflected in these prohibitions and these taboos that we have.

  George Carlin

  Sex, Attitude, Ideas

  "Carlin's response? More than 7 dirty words", www.today.com. March 13, 2004.

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• For the liver, what's so interesting is that there's no stem cell in the liver. So the normal liver actually can regenerate. It's one of the only organs in the human body that can do this, and we've known this since the time of Greek mythology.

  Sangeeta N. Bhatia

  Cells, Interesting, Greek

  Source: www.npr.org

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• There's a lot of neuroscience now raising the question, 'Is all the intelligence in the human body in the brain?', and they're finding out that, no, it's not like that. The body has intelligence itself, and we're much more of an organic creature in that way.

  Joel Kinnaman

  Brain, Body, Way

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Human bodies are designed for regular physical activity. The sedentary nature of much of modern life probably plays a significant role in the epidemic incidence of depression today. Many studies show that depressed patients who stick to a regimen of aerobic exercise improve as much as those treated with medication.

  Andrew Weil

  Exercise, Epidemics, Play

  "10 Ways to Have a Happier Life" by Dr. Andrew Weil, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 8, 2011.

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• A human body is associated with six stages of transformation, birth, growth, change, evolution, death and destruction.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Growth, Six, Body

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• The human body has limitations. The human spirit is boundless.

  Dean Karnazes

  Body, Spirit, Humans

  Dean Karnazes (2006). “Ultramarathon Man: Confessions of an All-Night Runner”, p.28, Penguin

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• What a frail, easily hurt, rather pathetic thing a human body is, naked; somehow a little unfinished, incomplete!

  D. H. Lawrence

  Hurt, Naked, Body

  D. H. Lawrence (2016). “D. H. Lawrence: The Complete Novels (Book House)”, p.2502, Book House

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• Color exists simultaneously with form. Both elements are constantly associated but color strikes you more - a rose for instance - sometimes form - the human body.

  Ferdinand Hodler

  Color, Rose, Elements

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• The human heart would never pass the drunk test.... If you took the human heart out of the human body and put a pair of legs on it and told it to walk a straight line, it couldn't do it.

  Tennessee Williams

  Heart, Drunk, Body

  Tennessee Williams, Mel Gussow, Kenneth Holdich (2000). “Plays: 1957-1980: Orpheus descending. Suddenly last summer. Sweet bird of youth. Period of adjustment. The night of the iguana. The eccentricities of a nightingale. The milk train doesn't stop here anymore. The mutilated. Kingdom of earth (The seven descents of Myrtle). Small craft warnings. Out cry. Vieux Carré. A lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur”, Hubsta Ltd

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• Being natural and matter-of-fact about nudity prevents your children from developing an attitude of shame or disgust about the human body. If parents are very secretive about their bodies and go to great lengths to prevent their children from ever seeing a buttock or breast, children will wonder what is so unusual, and even alarming, about human nudity.

  Lee Salk

  Attitude, Children, Parent

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• The human body is an amazing organism. It can go from dead tired to completely alert in a terrified blink.

  Ilona Andrews

  Tired, Body, Blink

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• The human body is in constant change the minute we're born. It's in a constant state of decay. We're all like Ford Escorts, just falling apart.

  Adam Ferrara

  Funny, Fall, Humor

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• I am a spiritual person living in a human body, not a human body with a spirit.

  Bob Proctor

  Spiritual, Body, Humans

  FaceBook post by Bob Proctor from Dec 23, 2012

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• In order to experience everyday spirituality, we need to remember that we are spiritual beings spending some time in a human body.

  Barbara De Angelis

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Order

  Barbara De Angelis (2013). “Real Moments: Discover the Secret for True Happiness”, p.245, Dell

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• The human body is an instrument for the production of art in the life of the human soul.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Art, Soul, Body

  Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Adventures of Ideas”, p.271, Simon and Schuster

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• All parts of the human body get tired eventually - except the tongue.

  Konrad Adenauer

  Philosophy, Tired, Medicine

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• Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.

  Winston Churchill

  Leadership, Pain, Growth

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• I have found that, in the composition of the human body as compared with the bodies of animals, the organs of sense are duller and coarser. Thus, it is composed of less ingenious instruments, and of spaces less capacious for receiving the faculties of sense.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Animal, Space, Receiving

  Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.331, GENERAL PRESS

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• In vain we shall penetrate more and more deeply the secrets of the structure of the human body, we shall not dupe nature; we shall die as usual.

  Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

  Secret, Dupes, Usual

  Dialogues des Morts Dialogue V

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