Your Body Quotes - Page 35

Is that what they call a vocation, what you do with joy as if you had fire in your heart, the devil in your body?

Josephine Baker

Heart, Fire, Joy

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But anyone who has been that young knows that the great grief of love is that your body feels the most when it knows the least.

Sarah Dunant

Grief, Love Is, Body

Sarah Dunant (2006). “In the Company of the Courtesan: A Novel”, p.226, Random House

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Your body, which is bonding millions of molecules every second, depends on transformation. Breathing and digestion harness transformation. Food and air aren’t just shuffled about but, rather, undergo the exact chemical bonding needed to keep you alive. The sugar extracted from an orange travels to the brain and fuels a thought. The emergent property in this case is the newness of the thought; no molecules in the history of the universe ever combined to produce that exact thought.

Deepak Chopra

Spiritual, Air, Breathing

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Never forget that you are not in the world; the world is in you. When anything happens to you, take the experience inward. Creation is set up to bring you constant hints and clues about your role as co-creator. Your soul is metabolizing experience as surely as your body is metabolizing food

Deepak Chopra

Spiritual, Soul, Inward

Deepak Chopra (2009). “The Book Of Secrets: Who am I? Where did I come from? Why am I here?”, p.260, Random House

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Every atom in your body came from a star that exploded. And the atoms in your left hand probably came from a different star than your right hand. It really is the most poetic thing I know about physics: you are all stardust.

Lawrence M. Krauss

Stars, Healing, Hands

YouTube Channel "Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason & Science"/"'A Universe From Nothing' by Lawrence Krauss, AAI 2009", www.youtube.com. October 21, 2009.

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Fear is danger to your body, but disgust is danger to your soul.

Diane Ackerman

Soul, Body, Danger

Diane Ackerman (2011). “A Slender Thread: Rediscovering Hope at the Heart of Crisis”, p.267, Vintage

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Your body Hurts me as the world hurts God

Sylvia Plath

Hurt, World, Body

Sylvia Plath “Poemas”, Editora Iluminuras Ltda

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And you? Now that I have discovered you? Beautiful, dangerous, unleashed. Still I try to hold you, knowing that your body is faced with knives.

Jeanette Winterson

Beautiful, Knives, Knowing

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And dieting, I discovered, was another form of disordered eating, just as anorexia and bulimia similarly disrupt the natural order of eating. "Ordered" eating is the practice of eating when you are hungry and ceasing to eat when your brain sends the signal that your stomach is full. ... All people who live their lives on a diet are suffering. If you can accept your natural body weight and not force it to beneath your body's natural, healthy weight, then you can live your life free of dieting, of restriction, of feeling guilty every time you eat a slice of your kid's birthday cake.

Portia de Rossi

Food, Kids, Body Weight

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Your body does not eliminate poisons by knowing their names. To try to control fear or depression or boredom by calling them names is to resort to superstition of trust in curses and invocations. It is so easy to see why this does not work. Obviously, we try to know, name, and define fear in order to make it “objective,” that is, separate from “I.

Alan Watts

Order, Names, Knowing

Alan Watts (1951). “The Wisdom of Insecurity”, Vintage

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That's what you do all the hard work for, to play in situations that put your body through gruelling times. If you're not up to it, pull out.

Lleyton Hewitt

Hard Work, Play, Tennis

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I run like an electric golf cart. Now I look at eating as a way to feed my body and keep me younger. It's not about starving your body, but treating your body like a Ferrari. You don't put in the crappiest gas you can find. You use supreme. In the long term, you'll run clean

Carol Alt

Running, Golf, Long

"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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The saxophone is an imperfect instrument, especially the tenor and soprano, as far as intonation goes. The challenge is to sing on an imperfect instrument that is outside of your body.

Stan Getz

Challenges, Body, Saxophone

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Switch to piano! No. Really, if you like an instrument that sings, play the saxophone. At its best it's like the human voice. Of course, it would be best if you could actually sing with your own voice. The saxophone is an imperfect instrument, especially the tenor and soprano, as far as intonation goes. Therefore, the challenge is to sing on an imperfect instrument or 'voice' that is outside of your body. I love that challenge and have for over forty-five years. As far as playing jazz, no other art form, other than conversation, can give the satisfaction of spontaneous interaction.

Stan Getz

Art, Piano, Years

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Hurdling is like Kung-fu. Everyone comes from a different school. And everybody says 'my Kung-fu is better than your Kung-fu.' You have to find the technique that best fits your body size.

Larry Shipp

School, Track, Technique

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In dance you use every party of your body except your voice. I wanted to start acting because I wanted to use my voice.

Zoe Saldana

Inspirational, Dance, Party

"Zoe Saldana On Why She Quit Ballet As A Teen: ‘I Was Dying Inside’" By Lee Hernandez, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 25, 2012.

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It takes 4 weeks for you to notice your body changing, 8 weeks for your friends to notice, & 12 weeks for the rest of the world to notice. Give it 12 weeks. Don't quit.

Jillian Michaels

Motivational, Giving, World

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I think your body is just a little bit stronger after pregnancy.

Paula Radcliffe

Pregnancy, Thinking, Stronger

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Taking care of your body, no matter what your age, is an investment.

Oprah Winfrey

Motivational, Age, Body

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Oh, darling, let your body in, let it tie you in, in comfort.

Anne Sexton

Get Well, Ties, Comfort

Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.101, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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Yoga is the best thing for your sex life. It keeps you limber in all kinds of ways. It teaches you to love your body and your partner's body. But more than anything, it keeps your mind liquid, and nothing's sexier than that.

Woody Harrelson

Success, Sex, Yoga

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Our work is not to change what you do, but to witness what you do with enough awareness, enough curiosity, enough tenderness that the lies and old decisions upon which the compulsion is based become apparent and fall away. When you no longer believe that eating will save your life when you feel exhausted or overwhelmed or lonely, you will stop. When you believe in yourself more than you believe in food, you will stop using food as if it were your only chance at not falling apart. When the shape of your body no longer matches the shape of your beliefs, the weight disappears.

Geneen Roth

Lonely, Lying, Fall

Geneen Roth (2011). “Women Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything”, p.75, Simon and Schuster

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Master your words. Master your thoughts. Never allow your body to do harm. Follow these three roads with purity And you will find yourself upon the one way, The way of wisdom.

Gautama Buddha

Inspiring, Wise, Buddhist

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I don't think I ever knew just how great it can feel to push your body past its limits, and running is a great way to do it. In fact, the harder I train, the more awesome the after-effects!

Sasha Azevedo

Sports, Running, Past

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Your body is precious. It is our vehicle for awakening. Treat it with care.

Gautama Buddha

Life, Buddhist, Health

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