Body Quotes - Page 28

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

  Gautama Buddha

  Life, Return

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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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• It is often by a trivial, even an anecdotal decision, that we direct our activities into a certain channel, and thus determine which of the potential expressions of our individuality become manifest. Usually we know nothing of the ultimate orientation or of the outlet toward which we travel, and the stream sweeps us to a formula of life from which there is no returning. Every decision is like a murder, and our march forward is over the stillborn bodies of all our possible selves that will never be.

  Rene Dubos

  Self, Expression, Decision

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• Suffering has no strength to wound a weary body.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Inspiration, Suffering

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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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• Body and soul need new challenges.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Inspiration, Challenges

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Apr 28, 2014

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• It takes a huge effort to free yourself from memory, but when you succeed, you start to realize that you’re capable of far more than you imagined. You live in this vast body called the Universe, which contains all the solutions and all the problems. Visit your soul; don’t visit your past. The Universe goes through many mutations and carries the past with it. We call each of those mutations a ‘life,’ but just as the cells in your body change and yet you remain the same, so time does not pass, it merely changes.

  Paulo Coelho

  Memories, Past, Cells

  "Aleph". Book by Paulo Coelho, 2011.

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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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• For as to the strength of body, the weakest has strength enough to kill the strongest, either by secret machination or by confederacy with others that are in the same danger with himself

  Thomas Hobbes

  Secret, Enough, Danger

  Thomas Hobbes (1750). “The Moral and Political Works To which is Prefixed the Autors Life, Extracted from that Said to be Written by Himself ... Illustr. by the Ed. - London 1750”, p.148

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• I find that the old Roman baths of this quarter, were found covered by an old burying ground, belonging to the Abbey; through which, in all probability, the water drains in its passage; so that as we drink the decoction of the living bodies at the Pump-room, we swallow the strainings of rotten bones and carcasses at the private bath - I vow to God, the very idea turns my stomach!

  Tobias Smollett

  Ideas, Water, Rotten

  Tobias Smollett (1809). “The Miscellaneous Works of Tobias Smollett: Sir Launcelot Greaves. Humphry Clinker”

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• No being exists or can exist which is not related to space in some way. God is everywhere, created minds are somewhere, and body is in the space that it occupies; and whatever is neither everywhere nor anywhere does not exist. And hence it follows that space is an effect arising from the first existence of being, because when any being is postulated, space is postulated.

  Isaac Newton

  Space, Mind, Doe

  Sir Isaac Newton (2014). “Newton: Philosophical Writings”, p.40, Cambridge University Press

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• To me, the mind seems to be spread out in the whole body - the senses are part of the brain. I guess they're not where the thinking is done.

  Sharon Olds

  Thinking, Brain, Mind

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• My will, my faith and my body have been challenged, but make no mistake, my heart is strong and my resolve to fight will never be broken.

  Anastacia

  Strong, Mistake, Heart

  "Anastacia fights on after cancer operation". news.bbc.co.uk. March 4, 2003.

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• Film is the greatest teacher because it teaches not only through the brain but through the whole body

  Vsevolod Pudovkin

  Teacher, Brain, Film

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• I do believe that a poem needs to remind the reader of his or her own humanity, of what they are, of what they're capable of. Awaken them, in a sense, to the fact that there's a world in front of their eyes, that they have a body, they're going to die, the sky is beautiful, it's fun to be in a grassy field when the sun is shining—those kinds of things.

  Charles Simic

  Beautiful, Fun, Believe

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• Main thing is to publish. Blog, tweet, write, photograph, tweet, video, code, play around with data - or a combination of all of the above. a) it will keep your journalistic ‘muscle’ in practice. b) if you’re any good, you’ll get noticed. And bear in mind you can do these things at other places than conventional news organisations. Many businesses, NGOs, arts organisations, public bodies, universities, etc are now publishers of extremely high quality stuff. Good places to practise your craft before moving on.

  Alan Rusbridger

  Art, Moving, Writing

  "I am Alan Rusbridger, editor in chief of the Guardian - the news org that broke the story of NSA surveillance of US citizens - AMAA", rebrn.com. July 31, 2013.

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• In this silence of the white Host, carried in the Monstrance, are all His words; there is His whole life given in offering to the Father for each of us; there is also the glory of the glorified body, which started with the Resurrection, and still continues in Heavenly union.

  Pope John Paul II

  Father, White, Offering

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• There Adam slept, and God formed the body of woman from one of his ribs, signifying that she should stand at his side as a companion and never lie at his feet like a slave, and also that he should love her as his own flesh.

  Christine de Pizan

  Lying, Feet, Ribs

  Christine De Pizan (1982). “The Book of the City of Ladies”, New York : Persea Books

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• Just as animal research tells us that gluttony and sloth are side effects of a drive to accumulate body fat, it also says that eating in moderation and being physically active (literally, having the energy to exercise) are not evidence of moral rectitude. Rather, they're the metabolic benefits of a body that's programmed to remain lean.

  Gary Taubes

  Exercise, Animal, Sloth

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• 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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• All that I would like to be is human, having a share
  in a civilized, articulate and well-adjusted
  community where the mind is given its due
  but the body is not distrusted

  Louis MacNeice

  Community, Mind, Share

  Louis MacNeice (2015). “Autumn Journal”, p.39, Faber & Faber

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• Wherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot.

  Plotinus

  Lying, Earth

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• I love watching Rihanna in fashion. I like to see her take chances and risks. I like seeing Naomi Campbell in the forefront. They're both women who stand out and use their bodies as canvases to introduce this functional art to the world. They carry it in a way that is very inspiring.

  Erykah Badu

  Fashion, Art, Risk

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• False is the body, false are the clothes; false is beauty.

  Guru Nanak

  Clothes

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