Body Quotes - Page 16

• The Alexander Technique keeps the body alive, at ages when many people have resigned themselves to irreversible decline.

  Robertson Davies

  People, Age, Technique

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• You know which guys are doing steroids and which ones aren't. I don't judge anybody. Everybody has their own life and people do what they want. It's like smoking pot. If you experiment with it, it doesn't mean you're the devil, and it doesn't mean you've ruined your body. It just means you tried it.

  Dolph Lundgren

  Mean, People, Judging

  Source: www.menshealth.com

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• The wise have mastered body, word, and mind. They are the true masters.

  Gautama Buddha

  Wise, Mind, Dhammapada

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• The glorious chariots of kings wear out, and the body wears out and grows old; but the virtue of the good never grows old.

  Gautama Buddha

  Kings, Virtue, Chariots

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• But then I thought, ‘I see transsexuals and they want healthy parts of their body removed in order to adjust to their idealized body image,' and so I think that was the connection for me. I saw that people wanted to have their limbs off with equally as much degree of obsession and need.”

  Julie Bindel

  Thinking, Order, People

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• Death is alive, they whispered. Death lives inside life, as bones dance within the body. Yesterday is within today. Yesterday never dies.

  Luis Alberto Urrea

  Yesterday, Alive, Today

  Luis Alberto Urrea (2006). “The Hummingbird's Daughter: A Novel”, p.11, Hachette UK

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• In the three minutes it takes the song to play I'm caught in a magic world of harmony and joy, a truly ecstatic joy, where the aching longing to be somewhere else, out of this city, out of this country, out of this body and out of this life, is kept at bay.

  Christos Tsiolkas

  Country, Song, Play

  Christos Tsiolkas (1995). “Loaded”, Random House Australia

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• To marry is to surrender everything--not only your body but your pride, your independence, even your life.

  Donna Woolfolk Cross

  Pride, Independence, Surrender

  Donna Woolfolk Cross (2009). “Pope Joan: A Novel”, p.64, Broadway Books

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• God made the human body like a machine with built-in obsolescence.

  Vikas Swarup

  Machines, Obsolescence, Made

  Vikas Swarup (2013). “The Accidental Apprentice”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

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• They will often tell me they can't love themselves because they are so fat, or as one girl put it, 'too round at the edges.' I explain that they are fat because they don't love themselves. When we begin to love and approve of ourselves, it's amazing how weight just disappears from our bodies.

  Louise Hay

  Motivational, Girl, Health

  Louise L. Hay (1984). “You Can Heal Your Life”, p.21, Hay House, Inc

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• Life is like a box of chocolates, you fill your body with toxins,
  And amoxicillin and penicillin to cure your illness.
  But in realness? These medical companies will get you monthly
  Prescribing me pills that make me ill, just to comfort me.

  Termanology

  Rap, Hip Hop, Chocolate

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• When I get involved, I give it my heart,
  I mean my mind, my soul, my body: I mean every part.
  But if it doesn't work out, yo, it just doesn't.
  It wasn't meant to be, you know, it just wasn't.

  MC Lyte

  Rap, Mean, Heart

  Song: Paper Thin, Album: Lyte as a Rock

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• The mind tricks the body, Body thinks the mind is crazy.

  Buckshot

  Crazy, Rap, Thinking

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• I was about one drink away from my limit,
  In came a black dress with a black body in it,
  She looked so timid, it took me a minute
  To get her in focus

  Aceyalone

  Rap, Hip Hop, Focus

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• The Greeks understood that mind and body must develop in harmounious proportions to produce a creative intelligence.

  John F. Kennedy

  Creativity, Creative, Greek

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• Where is the soul? . . . I refuse to believe anything of that kind without proof. The idea that, as soon as a man's breath leaves his body, the soul flops out like a chicken's head and flies off into space to find a lodgment where there [are] harps and haloes. Too much for me.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Believe, Men, Ideas

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• I think Barry Bonds was in a unique situation given his injuries from a year ago, the fact that he played in just 14 games. Even though I spoke to Barry in December and he was enthusiastic and excited about the possibility, I think the closer he got to the reality of spring training, and as he got himself in shape for the regular season and the San Francisco Giants, he felt like it may be too much of a challenge to try to push his body at this point in his career.

  Buck Martinez

  Spring, Thinking, Unique

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• And a friend of mine in the Christys, we used to sit up at night and talk and read and wonder if reincarnation, and if it wasn't reality, what would happen to the human spirit when the body dies? Is there an afterlife? Just questions like that.

  Barry McGuire

  Night, Reality, Afterlife

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• I hate to call it crossfire, what the rapid action battalion attributes for the custodial deaths, as there must be two parties in any such incident. But the reality is the just found body of the victim.

  Irene Khan

  Hate, Party, Reality

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• Peace is the whole truth that wishes to enrapture humanity. War is the whole falsehood that wants to capture humanity. Peace begins in the soul and ends in the heart. War begins in the mind and ends in the body.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Peace, War, Heart

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• When human beings have been fascinated by the contemplation of their own hearts, the more intricate biological pattern of the female has become a model for the artist, the mystic, and the saint. When mankind turns instead to what can be done, altered, built, invented, in the outer world, all natural properties of men, animals, or metals become handicaps to be altered rather than clues to be followed.

  Margaret Mead

  Heart, Men, Artist

  Margaret Mead (1975). “Male and female: a study of the sexes in a changing world”, William Morrow & Co

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• True reflection presents me to myself not as idle and inaccessible subjectivity, but as identical with my presence in the world and to others, as I am now realizing it: I am all that I see, I am an intersubjective field, not despite my body and historical situation, but, on the contrary, by being this body and this situation, and through them, all the rest.

  Maurice Merleau-Ponty

  Reflection, Historical, Phenomenology

  Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Thomas Baldwin (2004). “Maurice Merleau-Ponty: Basic Writings”, p.228, Psychology Press

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• You are not enclosed within your bodies, nor confined to houses or fields. That which is you dwells above the mountain and roves with the wind.

  Khalil Gibran

  Wind, House, Bereavement

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• As she cried, I could feel growing there, as had once before, a presence between us: the tiny perfect form of Sherry nestled between her parents' bodies. Our bodies were shaped by her absence, by the almost unbearable weight of her loss.

  Robert Wiersema

  Loss, Perfect, Parent

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• I'm a normal human being. I don't have any desire to change my body as a result of having had two kids. That's a good thing, isn't it?

  Kate Winslet

  Kids, Two, Desire

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