Te Body Quotes

What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.

The body is not a permanent dwelling, but a sort of inn which is to be left behind when one perceives that one is a burden to the host.

I have the emotions of a child in the body of a woman. I was rushed into womanhood for the movies. It caused me long moments of unhappiness and doubt.

The soul loves the body. And consider too how it is that the body is more in the soul than the soul is in the body.

I think my body went through a lot, went through the wringer. In terms of being inside the ring, getting hit, but also outside the ring, living a crazy life.

There is no great difficulty to separate the soul from the body, but it is not so easy to restore life to the dead.

Without the emotion and willingness of Spirit, our music becomes dry and dusty—without life. Without doctrinal bones as a skeleton, the Body is not enfleshed in a healthy way.

People ask me 'what was going through your mind in the race?' and I don't know. I try and ...let my body do what it knows

Difficult, say you? Difficult to be a man of virtue, truly good, shaped and fashioned without flaw in the perfect figure of four-squared excellence, in body and mind, in act and thought?

Hearing is a form of touch. I could hear less through the ears but more through the body.

Go within. Use the inner body as a starting point for going deeper and taking your attention away from where it's usually lodged, in the thinking mind.

Painting is a very difficult thing. It absorbs the whole man, body and soul, thus have I passed blindly many things which belong to real and political life.

The body is made by the thought that lies behind it. The body politic is thus the expression of national thought.

Let me look at the foulness and ugliness of my body. Let me see myself as an ulcerous sore running with every horrible and disgusting poison.

I'm a body builder, but I don't use weights. I use snacks. It's kind of a different building process.

As soon as I think that I am a little body, I want to preserve it, to protect it, to keep it nice, at the expense of other bodies; then you and I become separate.

Animals give us their constant, unjaded faces, and we burden them with our bodies and civilized ordeals.

Just as the body has its progress and decadence, so also has the mind, and, therefore, the mind is not the soul, because the soul can neither decay nor degenerate.

Christ bears the wounds of the church, his body, just as he bore the wounds of crucifixion. I sometimes wonder which have hurt worse.

There's something about the rhythm of walking, how, after about an hour and a half, the mind and body can't help getting in sync.

if i can only recount the story of my life right out of my body flames will grow

The mind's eye is perhaps no better fitted for the full radiance of truth, than is the body's for that of the sun.

‎Dancing is not just getting up painlessly, like a leaf blown on the wind; dancing is when you tear your heart out and rise out of your body to hang suspended between the worlds.

A gentle focus of attention is all it takes to free the body of minor imbalances.

I swear, I end up feeling empty, like you've taken something out of me and I have to search my body for scars.

It's like you trade the virility of the body for the agility of the spirirt.

Dilemma of civilized man; body mobilized, but danger obscure.

A lack of restful sleep disrupts the body's innate balance, weakens our immune system, and speeds up the aging process.

Antichrist is the pope and the Turk [Muslim] together. A beast full of life must have a body and soul. The spirit or soul of Antichrist is the pope, his flesh or body the Turk.

Your body is woven from the Light of Heaven.

Color exists simultaneously with form. Both elements are constantly associated but color strikes you more - a rose for instance - sometimes form - the human body.

Medications are palliatives. They are not designed to cure the degenerative diseases of the body.

For nearly a hundred years, we have known that the material world is an illusion. Everything that seems solid - a rock, a tree, your body - is actually 99.999% empty space.

The real American type can never be a ballet dancer. The legs are too long, the body too supple and the spirit too free for this school of affected grace and toe walking.

Our body is simply a social structure made of many souls.

Your body is the harp of the soul.

If the body is a temple, then tattoos are its stained glass windows.

This mirror inside me shows. I can’t say what, but I can’t not know. I run from body. I run from spirit. I do not belong anywhere.

The next 10 to 20 years will bring Native cultural expressions to the body of Christ that will be a tremendous blessing to many.

I don't have a religious bone in my body but I believe artists (of any medium), in our best selves, are vessels of truth.

Above all, faith is grounded in one's body, in one's humanity, and in one's animal nature. It is an biological phenomenon and not a psychic creation

Cowards are scared with threatenings; boys are whipped into confession; but a steady mind acts of itself, ne'er asks the body counsel.

It is not I who become addicted, it is my body.

When I feel like my body is exhausted, I focus on making my fifth Olympic team so I can push through it.

We completely deny the existence of a self-existent I, or a permanent, independent soul. Every aspect of your body and mind is impermanent: changing, changing, changing.

Put on light-coloured clothes and some perfume, take care of your body and do everything you can to fight against the forces of darkness. It is not an easy struggle, but it is worthwhile.

Even sickness becomes an experience that we pass through in happiness because our happiness is not dependent upon how our body feels, but how our spirit feels.

Words and action in movies are the spirit or the mind. And these days the body is almost completely forgotten. In the beginning the body - nature - was more part of the action.

Habits are where our lives and careers and bodies are made.

Solemnity is a device of the body to hide the faults of the mind.