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  Sex is full of lies. The body tries to tell the truth. But, it's usually too battered with rules to be heard, and bound with pretenses so it can hardly move. We cripple ourselves with lies.

  Jim Morrison

  Sex, Truth, Honesty

  "Into This House We're Born". Book by James Hunt, p. 262, July 1, 2006.

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• If you are hurt, whether in mind or body, don't nurse your bruises. Get up, and light-heartedly, courageously, good-temperedly, get ready for the next encounter.

  Emily Post

  Inspirational, Motivational, Hurt

  "Etiquette: "The Blue Book of Social Usage"".

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• Each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms.

  Gloria Steinem

  Inspiring, Demand, Individual

  Gloria Steinem (1986). “Outrageous acts and everyday rebellions”, New Amer Library

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• To keep the body in good health is a duty, for otherwise we shall not be able to trim the lamp of wisdom, and keep our mind strong and clear.

  Gautama Buddha

  Strong, Health, Mind

  Gautama Buddha (2017). “Zen Puppies: Meditations for the Wise Minds of Puppy Lovers”, p.11, Mango Media Inc.

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• There is an unseemly exposure of the mind, as well as of the body.

  William Hazlitt

  Mind, Exposure, Candor

  'Sketches and Essays' (1839) 'On Disagreeable People'

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• The human body is a magazine of inventions, the patent office, where are the models from which every hint is taken. All the tools and engines on earth are only extensions of its limbs and senses.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Taken, Office, Patents

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2459, Delphi Classics

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• The Alexander Technique works... I recommend it enthusiastically to anyone who has neck pains or back pain.

  Roald Dahl

  Pain, Healing, Health

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• A strong body makes the mind strong.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Strong, Exercise, Gun

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoirs, Correspondence, and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Late President of the United States”, p.287

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• Just as man can't exist without his body, so no rights can exist without the right to translate one's rights into reality, to think, to work and keep the results, which means: the right of property.

  Ayn Rand

  Work, Mean, Reality

  Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.2260, Penguin

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• Our bodies communicate to us clearly and specifically, if we are willing to listen to them.

  Shakti Gawain

  Motivational, Communication, Creative Visualization

  Shakti Gawain (2010). “The Path of Transformation: How Healing Ourselves Can Change the World”, p.129, New World Library

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• As we free our breath through diaphragmatic breathing, we relax our emotions and let go our body tensions.

  Gay Hendricks

  Letting Go, Health, Breathing

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• When you coordinate your mind and body, you have unlimited access to the wisdom of the universe.

  Koichi Tohei

  Mind, Unlimited, Coordinates

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• Each body has its art.

  Gwendolyn Brooks

  Art, Healing

  Gwendolyn Brooks (2005). “The Essential Gwendolyn Brooks”, p.46, Library of America

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• The human body is the only machine for which there are no spare parts.

  Hermann Biggs

  Fitness Motivational, Machines, Spare Parts

  Radio Talk (quoted in Doctor's Legacy)

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• Just the pleasure of moving and the pleasure of using your body is, I think, maybe the main point. And the pleasure of dancing with somebody in an unplanned and spontaneous way, when you're free to invent and they're free to invent and you're neither one hampering the other - that's a very pleasant social form.

  Steve Paxton

  Dance, Moving, Thinking

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• We humans have lost the wisdom of genuinely resting and relaxing. We worry too much. We don't allow our bodies to heal, and we don't allow our minds and hearts to heal.

  Nhat Hanh

  Inspirational, Life, Change

  "Exclusive Interview With Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh". Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 21, 2010.

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• A sound mind in a sound body, is a short, but full description of a happy state in this World: he that has these two, has little more to wish for; and he that wants either of them, will be little the better for anything else.

  John Locke

  Happiness, Two, Mind

  John Locke, Ruth Weissbourd Grant, Nathan Tarcov (1996). “Some Thoughts Concerning Education: And, Of the Conduct of the Understanding”, Hackett Publishing

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• I listen with love to my body's messages.

  Louise Hay

  Love, Inspirational, Health

  FaceBook post by Louise Hay from Mar 21, 2015

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  The body does not want you to do this. As you run, it tells you to stop but the mind must be strong. You always go too far for your body. You must handle the pain with strategy...It is not age; it is not diet. It is the will to succeed.

  Jacqueline Gareau

  Motivational, Fitness, Running

  "Diversification and Discipline Are Key to Investing in Gold" by Frank Holmes, www.businessinsider.com. August 21, 2014.

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• This is an essential experience of any mystical realization. You die to your flesh and are born into your spirit. You identify yourself with the consciousness and life of which your body is but the vehicle. You die to the vehicle and become identified in your consciousness with that of which the vehicle is but the carrier. That is the God.

  Joseph Campbell

  Essentials, Realization, Flesh

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.134, Anchor

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• Health is an announcement of agreement between your body, mind and spirit. Honor your body, keep it in good shape. When you are not healthy, look to see which parts of you disagree. Your body will demonstrate the truth to you. Notice what it is showing you, listen to what it is saying.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Spiritual, Truth, Health

  FaceBook post by Neale Donald Walsch from Jun 26, 2010

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• It is not the end of the physical body that should worry us. Rather, our concern must be to live while we're alive - to release our inner selves from the spiritual death that comes with living behind a facade designed to conform to external definitions of who and what we are.

  Copyright: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Family Limited Partnership.

  Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

  Death, Spiritual, Self

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  My soul is not contained within the limits of my body; my body is contained within the limitlessness of my soul.

  Jim Carrey

  Soul, Comedian, Limits

  "Jim Carrey's inspiring commencement speech" by Lisa Respers France, www.cnn.com. May 28, 2014.

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• You shouldn't been pressured into trying to be thin by the fashion industry, because they only want models that are like human mannequins. But you have to remember that it's not practical or possible for an everyday woman to look like that. Beinz size zero is a career in itself so we shouldn't try and be like them. It's not realistic and it's not healthy.

  Rihanna

  Beauty, Fashion, Zero

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• The dance is strong magic. The body can fly without wings. It can sing without voice. The dance is strong magic. The dance is life.

  Pearl Primus

  Life, Dance, Strong

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