Body Quotes - Page 15

• Even if you weren't born with a genetically perfect body, you can take something like a hand, where everyone has the same capabilities, and you can make it speak. You can make it speak in many different ways.

  Sarah Lamb

  Hands, Perfect, Ballet

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• I should never conclude were I to speak to you of all the misfortunes which have their origin in the faulty carriage of the body. All these defects, mortifying for those who have contracted them, cannot be remedied except in their early stages. A habit born in childhood is strengthened in youth, becomes deeply rooted in adulthood and is incurable in old age.

  Jean-Georges Noverre

  Childhood, Ballet, Age

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• The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body. I don't leap and jump anymore. I look at young dancers, and I am envious, more aware of what glories the body contains. But sensitivity is not made dull by age.

  Martha Graham

  Art, Dancer, Ballet

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• Well, thank you and that's for them, but for me, I want to look back at a body of work where when you do the research and you explore the psyche of a character, where she's been, where she is and where she's going.

  Pam Grier

  Thank You, Character, Looks

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• It just seemed so odd as people had never commented on my body before. Every woman obsesses over her figure, but I was happy, I felt sexy, I never thought about it. I know this sounds naive, but I honestly never expected this kind of attention.

  Christina Hendricks

  Sexy, People, Sound

  "Mad Men and me: Christina Hendricks interview". Interview With Hadley Freeman, www.theguardian.com. September 16, 2011.

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• My sister has an incredible body. I feel sorry for anyone who would judge her, because she's one sexy lady... It's disgusting that people would say those things.

  Ashlee Simpson

  Sexy, Sorry, People

  Women's Health Interview, edition.cnn.com. November 16, 2009.

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• Air warfare is a shot through the brain, not a hacking to pieces of the enemy's body.

  J. F. C. Fuller

  Air, Brain, Enemy

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• After 20 years in special operations trust me, I know my body.

  Joe Teti

  Years, Survival, Special

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• In all the years I've been a therapist, I've yet to meet one girl who likes her body.

  Mary Pipher

  Girl, Years, Anorexia

  Mary Pipher (2005). “Reviving Ophelia”, p.165, Penguin

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• Most women in our culture, then, are disordered when it comes to issues of self-worth, self-entitlement, self-nourishment, and comfort with their own bodies; eating disorders, far from being 'bizarre' and anomalous, are utterly continuous with a dominant element of the experience of being female in this culture.

  Susan Bordo

  Self Worth, Issues, Anorexia

  Susan Bordo (2004). “Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body”, p.57, Univ of California Press

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• The body is a multilingual being. It speaks through its color and its temperature, the flush of recognition, the glow of love, the ash of pain, the heat of arousal, the coldness of nonconviction. . . . It speaks through the leaping of the heart, the falling of the spirits, the pit at the center, and rising hope.

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  Life, Pain, Fall

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• Polish the heart, free the six senses and let them function without obstruction, and your entire body will glow.

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Life, Heart, Six

  Morihei Ueshiba, John Stevens (2010). “The Art of Peace”, p.60, Shambhala Publications

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• Being in touch with our bodies, or more accurately, being our bodies, is how we know what is true. Harriet

  Harriet Lerner

  Life, Knows

  Harriet Goldhor Lerner (1993). “The Dance of Deception: Pretending and Truth-Telling in Women's Lives”, Harpercollins

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• Be strong then, and enter into your own body; there you have a solid place for your feet. Think about it carefully! Don't go off somewhere else! ...just throw away all thoughts of imaginary things, and stand firm in that which you are.

  Kabir

  Life, Strong, Thinking

  Kabir (1977). “The Kabir book: forty-four of the ecstatic poems of Kabir”

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• Stay centered, do not overstretch. Extend from your center, return to your center.

  Gautama Buddha

  Life, Return

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• Smiling, sincere, incorruptible -
  His body disciplined and limber.
  A man who had become what he could,
  And was what he was-
  Ready at any moment to gather everything
  Into one simple sacrifice.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Life, Sacrifice, Simple

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• When my kids were in preschool, I was part of a carpooling group. One mother sometimes showed up with bruises on her body. She always had an excuse. Then one morning, she didn't show up. Later, I learned she'd fled a violent marriage. I've always thought, If only I'd known, maybe I could have helped.

  Patty Murray

  Mother, Morning, Kids

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• The frying pan you should give to your enemy. Food should not be prepared in fat. Our bodies are adapted to a stone age diet of roots and vegetables.

  Denis Parsons Burkitt

  Science, Vegetables, Roots

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• We declare that one who uses the God-given body of another without divine sanction abuses the very soul of that individual, abuses the central purpose and processes of life.

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Life, Soul, Abuse

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• When we marry, we are authorized to take possession of the other person, body and soul.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Inspiration, Soul

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• We must buy jewelry; it identifies us with our tribe, just as body piercing identifies those of a different tribe.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Inspiration, Different

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• Body and soul need new challenges.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Inspiration, Challenges

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Apr 28, 2014

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• What the soul is to the body, so is the artist to his people.

  Gabriela Mistral

  Artist, People, Soul

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• There is only beauty / and it has only one perfect expression / poetry. All the rest is a lie /except for those who live by the body, love, and, that love of the mind, friendship. For me, Poetry takes the place of love, because it is enamored of itself, and because its sensual delight falls back deliciously in my soul.

  Stephane Mallarme

  Lying, Fall, Love Is

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• As a draft-animal is yoked in a wagon, even so the spirit is yoked in this body

  Thomas Hobbes

  Animal, Wagons, Spirit

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