Your Body Quotes - Page 39

• In figure skating, your body can only last for so long. I can't be 50 and trying to skate but I can be 50 and be in fashion, so I have to look to my future and what I want to achieve.

  Johnny Weir

  Fashion, Long, Trying

  "Olympic Figure Skater Johnny Weir Wants A Career In Fashion!". Yahoo! Sports Interview, hollywoodlife.com. February 19, 2010.

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• In the sports arena I would say there is nothing like training and preparation. You have to train your mind as much as your body.

  Venus Williams

  Sports, Tennis, Preparation

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• It's normal to gain weight during pregnancy. It's something that has to happen to your body.

  Carnie Wilson

  Pregnancy, Weight, Body

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• Action choreographer is like talking. When you talk, you have a rhythm. When you act, you have a rhythm. When you're moving your body, you have a rhythm. So as an actor, as a choreographer, the objective is trying to blend everything in - into - ultimately back into that character.

  Donnie Yen

  Moving, Character, Talking

  "TalkAsia" with Kristie Lu Stout, www.cnn.com. October 19, 2011.

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• The secret of flight is this -- you have to do it immediately, before your body realizes it is defying the laws.

  Michael Cunningham

  Law, Secret, Body

  Michael Cunningham (2010). “A Home at the End of the World: A Novel”, p.24, Macmillan

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• It is through your body that you realize you are a spark of divinity.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Yoga, Body, Divinity

  "Yoga Connects You to the Perfection You Seek" by Vyda Bielkus, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 19, 2014.

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• Later on, when I tried to imagine how I might have ruined things, that would occur to me - that I'd so rarely resisted, that I hadn't made it hard enough for him. Maybe it was like gathering your strength and hurling your body against a door you believe to be locked, and then the door opens easily - it wasn't locked at all - and you're standing looking into the room, trying to remember what it was you thought you wanted.

  Curtis Sittenfeld

  Believe, Doors, Trying

  Curtis Sittenfeld (2005). “Prep: a novel”

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• Mom always said people worried too much about their children. Suffering when you are young is good for you, she said. It immunized your body and your soul.

  Jeannette Walls

  Mom, Children, People

  Jeannette Walls (2006). “The Glass Castle: A Memoir”, p.28, Simon and Schuster

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• I will love you always. When this red hair is white, I will still love you. When the smooth softness of youth is replaced by the delicate softness of age, I will still want to touch your skin. When your face is full of the lines of every smile you have ever smiled, of every surprise I have seen flash through your eyes, when every tear you have ever cried has left its mark upon your face,I will treasure you all the more, because I was there to see it all. I will share your life with you, Meredith, and I will love you until the last breath leaves your body or mine.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Romantic, Lost Love, Love You

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• You must converse much with the field and the woods if you would imbibe such health into your mind and spirit as you covet for your body

  Henry David Thoreau

  Mind, Body, Woods

  Henry David Thoreau, Joseph O. Valentine, Thoreau Society (2001). “Thoreau on Land: Nature's Canvas”, p.21, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• When your laboratory explodes, lacing your body with a supercharged elixir, what do you do? You don't just lie there. You crawl out of the rubble, hideously scarred, and swear vengeance on the world. You keep going. You keep trying to take over the world.

  Austin Grossman

  Lying, Trying, World

  Austin Grossman (2007). “Soon I Will Be Invincible: A Novel”, p.261, Vintage

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• Drinking is an emotional thing. It joggles you out of the standardism of everyday life, out of everything being the same. It yanks you out of your body and your mind and throws you against the wall. I have the feeling that drinking is a form of suicide where you're allowed to return to life and begin all over the next day. It's like killing yourself, and then you're reborn. I guess I've lived about ten or fifteen thousand lives now.

  Charles Bukowski

  Suicide, Wall, Drinking

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• As a bio major, I figured "free will" meant chemicals in your brain telling you what to do, the molecules bouncing around in a way that felt like choosing but was actually the dance of little gears--neurons and hormones bubbling up into decisions like clockwork. You don't use your body; it uses you.

  Scott Westerfeld

  Decision, Brain, Molecules

  Scott Westerfeld (2006). “Peeps”, p.6, Penguin

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• Girl lithe and tawny, the sun that forms the fruits, that plumps the grains, that curls seaweeds filled your body with joy, and your luminous eyes and your mouth that has the smile of the water. A black yearning sun is braided into the strands of your black mane, when you stretch your arms. You play with the sun as with a little brook and it leaves two dark pools in your eyes.

  Pablo Neruda

  Girl, Eye, Dark

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• To let a sad thought or a bad one get into your mind is as dangerous as letting a scarlet fever germ get into your body. If you let it stay there after it has got in, you may never get over it as long as you live.

  Frances Hodgson Burnett

  Long, Mind, Fever

  Frances Hodgson Burnett (2003). “The Secret Garden: Centennial Edition”, p.168, Penguin

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• You’re not a human being until you value something more than the life of your body. And the greater the thing you live and die for the greater you are.

  Orson Scott Card

  Body, Humans, Greater

  Orson Scott Card (1992). “The Worthing Saga”, p.80, Tor Books

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• The Fat Girl Code of Conduct: 1. Any sexual activity is a secret. No public displays of affection. 2. Don’t discuss your weight with him. 3. Go further than skinny girls. If you can’t sell him on your body, you’d better overcompensate with sexual perks. 4. Never, ever, ever, ever, ever push the relationship thing.

  Carolyn Mackler

  Girl, Secret, Weight

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• 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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• If it's true that every seven years each cell in your body dies and is replaced, then I have truly inherited my life from a dead man; and the misdeeds of those times have been forgiven, and are buried with his bones.

  Neil Gaiman

  Men, Cells, Years

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• The curse of mortality. You spend the first portion of your life learning, growing stronger, more capable. And then, through no fault of your own, your body begins to fail. You regress. Strong limbs become feeble, keen senses grow dull, hardy constitutions deteriorate. Beauty withers. Organs quit. You remember yourself in your prime, and wonder where that person went. As your wisdom and experience are peaking, your traitorous body becomes a prison.

  Brandon Mull

  Strong, Growing, Body

  Brandon Mull, Brandon Dorman (2007). “Fablehaven”, p.146, Simon and Schuster

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• This is motherhood for you,' said my own mother. 'Going through life with your heart outside your body.

  Jennifer Weiner

  Mother, Heart, Body

  Jennifer Weiner (2008). “Certain Girls: A Novel”, p.293, Simon and Schuster

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• Repentance can become a very, very deep phenomenon in you if you understand the responsibility. Then even a small thing, if it becomes a repentance-- not just verbal, not just on the surface; if it goes deep to the roots, if you repent from the roots; if your whole being shakes and trembles and cries, and tears come out; not only out of your eyes but out of every cell of your body, then repentance can become a transfiguration.

  Rajneesh

  Spiritual, Eye, Responsibility

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• As you sow in your subconscious mind, so shall you reap in your body and environment. Whatever your conscious mind assumes and believes to be true, your subconscious mind will accept and bring to pass. Whatever you habitually think sinks into the subconscious. The subconscious is the seat of the emotions and is a creative mind. Once subconscious accepts an idea, it begins to execute it. Whatever you feel is true, your subconscious will accept and bring forth into experience.

  Jane Roberts

  Believe, Thinking, Ideas

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• Keeping your body healthy is an expression of gratitude to the whole cosmos — the trees, the clouds, everything.

  Nhat Hanh

  Gratitude, Health, Clouds

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2005). “Touching Peace: Practicing the Art of Mindful Living”, p.90, Parallax Press

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