Body Quotes - Page 27

• Start from the body, and then go, slowly slowly, deeper. And don't start with anything else unless you have first solved the primary. If your body is tense, don't start with the mind. Wait. Work on the body. And just small things are of immense help.

  Rajneesh

  Waiting, Relaxation, Mind

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• Just try walking very slowly, and you will be surprised - a new quality of awareness starts happening in the body. Eat slowly, and you will be surprised - there is great relaxation. Do everything slowly... just to change the old pattern, just to come out of old habits.

  Rajneesh

  Old Habits, Relaxation, Trying

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• Carrying body and soul and embracing the one, Can you avoid separation?

  Laozi

  Soul, Unity, Separation

  Laozi (1997). “道德经”, Vintage

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• I've had moments where I realize my body isn't going to withstand many more seasons, but I am very satisfied with my career and I am trying not to look at retirement as a sad thing.

  Cat Osterman

  Retirement, Careers, Trying

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• This love thing awakened a group of slumbering senses in my body that I never even knew existed.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Fall, Groups, Senses

  Cecelia Ahern (2007). “If You Could See Me Now”, Hyperion

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• But if in the pursuit of the means we should unfortunately stumble again on unfunded paper money or any similar species of fraud, we shall assuredly give a fatal stab to our national credit in its infancy. Paper money will invariably operate in the body of politics as spirit liquors on the human body. They prey on the vitals and ultimately destroy them. Paper money has had the effect in your state that it will ever have, to ruin commerce, oppress the honest, and open the door to every species of fraud and injustice.

  George Washington

  Mean, Doors, Giving

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• But all the other frenzies of passions-impious both toward the bodies and toward the sexes-beyond the laws of nature, we banish not only from the threshold, but from all shelter of the Church, because they are not sins, but monstrosities.

  Tertullian

  Christian, Sex, Passion

  Tertullian (2012). “The Sacred Writings of Tertullian (Annotated Edition)”, p.1309, Jazzybee Verlag

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• I believe that for permanent survival, man must balance science with other qualities of life, qualities of body and spirit as well as those of mind - qualities he cannot develop when he lets mechanics and luxury insulate him too greatly from the earth to which he was born.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Life, Believe, Men

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• That which is useless dies. Animals that fail to serve some useful purpose in the scheme of things slowly but surely become extinct. Let any part of the human body cease to perform its ordained function, and it withers-as when an arm is kept long in a sling. This same decree, that nothing useless is permitted to survive, runs through the mind of the industrial world.

  B. C. Forbes

  Running, Failure, Animal

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• I wish Adam had died with all his ribs in his body.

  Dion Boucicault

  Funny Valentines Day, Wish, Ribs

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• In order that our art may arrive at the degree of the sublime which I demand and hope for, it is imperative for dancers to divide their time and studies between the mind and the body, and that both become the object of their application; but, unfortunately, all is given to the latter and nothing to the former. The legs are rarely guided by the brain, and, since intelligence and taste do not reside in the feet, one often goes astray.

  Jean-Georges Noverre

  Art, Feet, Order

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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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• Dancing is an excellent amusement for young people, especially for those of sedentary occupations. Its excellence consists in exciting a cheerfulness of the mind, highly essential to health; in bracing the muscles of the body, and in producing copious perspiration.....The body must perspire, or must be out of order.

  Noah Webster

  Order, People, Dancing

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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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• In true natural selection, if a body has what it takes to survive, its genes automatically survive because they are inside it. So the genes that survive tend to be, automatically, those genes that confer on bodies the qualities that assist them to survive.

  Richard Dawkins

  Science, Survival, Quality

  Richard Dawkins (2015). “The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe without Design”, p.65, W. W. Norton & Company

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• At least a third of a woman's life is marked with aging; about a third of her body is made of fat. Both symbols are being transformed into operable condition

  Naomi Wolf

  Self Esteem, Aging, Life Is

  Naomi Wolf (1990). “The Beauty Myth”, Vintage

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• I am kind of prudish and I have very strict standards about how I present myself. But one of the things that I've always stood by is that women are beautiful and sexy. We shouldn't be afraid of that. [But] we need to make sure that we present that beauty and that sexiness in a way that says we are in control of our bodies. We're strong, we're classy, we're beautiful, powerful beings to be reckoned with, not victims.

  Evangeline Lilly

  Beautiful, Sexy, Strong

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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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• Survival is not so much about the body, but rather it is about the triumph of the human spirit.

  Danitra Vance

  Survival, Triumph, Spirit

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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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• For every thought supported by feeling, there is a muscle change. Primary muscle patterns being the biological heritage of man, man's whole body records his emotional thinking.

  Mabel Elsworth Todd

  Life, Men, Emotional

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• Complete health and awakening are really the same.

  Tarthang Tulku

  Life, Awakening

  Tarthang Tulku (1975). “Reflections of Mind: Western Psychology Meets Tibetan Buddhism”

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• The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well.

  Hippocrates

  Life, Get Well, Healing

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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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• What is wanted - whether this is admitted or not - is nothing less than a fundamental remolding, indeed weakening and abolition of the individual: one never tires of enumerating and indicating all that is evil and inimical, prodigal, costly, extravagant in the form individual existence has assumed hitherto, one hopes to manage more cheaply, more safely, more equitably, more uniformly if there exist only large bodies and their members.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Evil, Individuality, Fundamentals

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