Human Body Quotes - Page 8

• The human body is amazing," she said. If you deprive it of one sensory input, the other senses take over, almost instantly.

  Dan Brown

  Body, Input, Said

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• A person could last a long while without touch, but once someone had experienced the comfort, joy, and sheer relief of another human body close, the desire to experience that again was hard to deny.

  Mary Johnson

  Long, Joy, Desire

  Mary Johnson (2011). “An Unquenchable Thirst: A Memoir”, p.478, Spiegel & Grau

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• It is a constant change. Not one body is constant.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Body, Constant

  Swami Vivekananda (2012). “Raja Yoga (Annotated Edition)”, p.33, Jazzybee Verlag

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• The body cannot be the soul.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Soul, Body

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• Lenelle Moïse's poems render the abstract - policy, disaster, history, diaspora - specific. Her words make the political not just personal, but corporeal: the beautiful system of the human body as canvas and subject, perfect in all its attendant complications and complexity, and still ruled, undeniably, by a warm, beating heart.

  Erin McKeown

  Beautiful, Heart, Perfect

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• I have now transformed into a sensitive; a person who is able to detect when spirits are present. It's a skill that's evolved over hundreds of paranormal investigations and has taught me that the human body is the best means of paranormal detection. I've become a fine-tuned instrument of spiritual sensitivity.

  Zak Bagans

  Spiritual, Mean, Skills

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• The couturier should be a geometrician, for the human body makes
  geometrical figures to which the materials should correspond.

  Madeleine Vionnet

  Body, Figures, Should

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• I trained as an artist originally, so I know what a nice human body looks like, and I would like to look like that notion, and of course I never will. But I've got past that.

  Richard Griffiths

  Nice, Artist, Past

  "A break in the clouds" by Oliver Burkeman, www.theguardian.com. September 29, 2006.

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• When we're in a human body, we don't care about universal collapse - instead, we care only about a meeting of the eyes, a glimpse of bare flesh, the caressing tones of a loved voice, joy, love, light, the orientation of a house plant, the shade of a paint stroke, the arrangement of hair.

  David Eagleman

  Eye, Light, Hair

  FaceBook post by David Eagleman from May 31, 2016

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• Bioenergetics is an adventure in self-discovery. It differs from similar explorations into the nature of the self by attempting to understand the human personality in terms of the human body. Most previous explorations focused their investigations on the mind.

  Alexander Lowen

  Adventure, Discovery, Self

  Alexander Lowen (1994). “Bioenergetics”, Penguin Group USA

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• Many say that life entered the human body by the help of music, but the truth is that life itself is music.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Body, Helping, Truth Is

  Hazrat Inayat Khan (1996). “The Mysticism of Sound and Music”, p.28, Shambhala Publications

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• What is the shape of space? Is it flat, or is it bent? Is it nicely laid out, or is it warped and shrunken? Is it finite, or is it infinite? Which of the following does space resemble more: (a) a sheet of paper, (b) an endless desert, (c) a soap bubble, (d) a doughnut, (e) an Escher drawing, (f) an ice cream cone, (g) the branches of a tree, or (h) a human body?

  Rudy Rucker

  Science, Drawing, Space

  Rudy von Bitter Rucker, Rudy Rucker (1985). “The Fourth Dimension: A Guided Tour of the Higher Universes”, p.91, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We try to place the human body in relation to the image all the time, so it's never a kind of a backdrop, but it's more of ...a much more integrative experience.

  Simon McBurney

  Theatre, Trying, Body

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• A human body in no way resembles those that were born for ravenousness; it hath no hawk's bill, no sharp talon, no roughness of teeth, no such strength of stomach or heat of digestion, as can be sufficient to convert or alter such heavy and fleshy fare.

  Plutarch

  Vegetarianism, Teeth, Body

  Plutarch (1909). “Plutarch's essays and miscellanies, comprising all the works collected under the title of "Morals", translated from the Greek by several hands, corr. and rev. by William W. Goodwin”

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• I want to be remembered as a person who felt there was no limitation to what the human body and mind can do and be the inspiration to lead people to do things they never hoped to do.

  Carl Lewis

  Inspiration, People, Mind

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• Other anatomical changes associated with long-duration space flight are definitely negative: the immune system weakens, the heart shrinks because it doesn't have to strain against gravity, eyesight tends to degrade, sometimes markedly (no one's exactly sure why yet). The spine lengthens as the little sacs of fluid between the vertebrae expand, and bone mass decreases as the body sheds calcium. Without gravity, we don't need muscle and bone mass to support our own weight, which is what makes life in space so much fun but also so inherently bad for the human body, long-term.

  Chris Hadfield

  Fun, Heart, Space Flight

  Chris Hadfield (2013). “An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth”, p.137, Pan Macmillan

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• My holy of holies is the human body.

  Anton Chekhov

  Body, Holy, Pharisaism

  Anton Chekhov (2009). “Selected Stories of Anton Chekov”, p.13, Modern Library

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• Many healings of other physical troubles have occurred in my clients after they started to integrate breathing practices into their lives. There is a simple but encompassing reason that may explain this. The human body is designed to discharge 70% of its toxins through breathing. Only a small percentage of toxins are discharged through sweat, defecation and urination. If your breathing is not operating at peak efficiency, you are not ridding yourself of toxins properly.

  Gay Hendricks

  Healing, Simple, Practice

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• The human body is always treated as an image of society.

  Mary Douglas

  Body, Treated, Humans

  Professor Mary Douglas, Mary Douglas (2004). “Natural Symbols: Explorations in Cosmology”, p.78, Routledge

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• You are a multidimensiona l being because your human body houses your spirit body, and your spirit body is not limited by dimensions of time, space, or form. As you grow spiritually, you become more perceptive of these other dimensions.

  James Van Praagh

  Space, House, Body

  FaceBook post by James Van Praagh from Dec 08, 2013

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• Ganapati, the one with the human body and the head of a Gana, became a tremendous possibility.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Love, Life, Meditation

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• I think the more rational explanation is that the excision of a five-to-six-foot leech from the surface of a human body means that that body is going to have more of its own blood in its own veins. Unless the leech finds another body, it is going to go hungry.

  Dave Sim

  Mean, Thinking, Feet

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• The master maker of the human body did not create you and then run off and leave you masterless. He stayed on the job as innate, as the fellow within, as nerve transmission controlling every function of life, as spirit from above-down, inside-out, expressing, creating, exploring, directing you in every field and phase of experience so that your home is truly the world and the world is your home.

  B. J. Palmer

  Running, Jobs, Home

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• All types of knowledge ultimately lead to self-knowledge. So, therefore, these people are asking me to teach them, not so much how to defend themselves or how to do somebody in. Rather, they want to learn to express themselves through some movement, be it anger, be it determination or whatever. So, in other words, they're paying me to show them, in combative form, the art of expressing the human body.

  Bruce Lee

  Art, Determination, Self

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee: The Art of Expressing the Human Body”, p.14, Tuttle Publishing

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• If your ego starts out, "I am important, I am big, I am special," you're in for some disappointments when you look around at what we've discovered about the universe. No, you're not big. No, you're not. You're small in time and in space. And you have this frail vessel called the human body that's limited on Earth.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Disappointment, Special You, Space

  "Neil deGrasse Tyson on the New Cosmos". "Moyers & Company", billmoyers.com. January 10, 2014.

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