The Body Quotes

Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.

I rarely draw what I see. I draw what I feel in my body.

When a man is hit by Friendly Fire, his blood pressure lowers and his morale sinks. I have been hit by Friendly Fire in my heart. Sighs spill from my body instead of blood.

It was a weak spot in any nation to have a large body of disaffected people within its confusion.

Every organ, gland and cell in the body is affected by the condition of the colon.

Although each of us obviously inhabits a separate physical body, the laboratory data from a hundred years of parapsychology research strongly indicate that there is no separation in consciousness.

The one and only formative power given to man is thought. By his thinking he not only makes character, but body and affairs, for "as he thinketh within himself, so is he."

If you are ruled by mind you are a king; if by body, a slave.

Even if it has not been your habit throughout your life so far, I recommend that you learn to think positively about your body.

The body is a cell state in which every cell is a citizen. Disease is merely the conflict of the citizens of the state brought about by the action of external forces.

Asanas bring perfection in body, beauty in form, grace, strength, compactness, and the hardness and brilliance of a diamond.

The human body is capable of amazing physical deeds. If we could just free ourselves from our perceived limitations and tap into our internal fire, the possibilities are endless.

There are seven primary chakras located in the subtle physical body, the body of light and energy that is our awareness and that surrounds the physical.

Rome wasn't built in a day. And neither was your body.

In our own selves sometimes we don't feel right in this body. I think it's because our original nature is eternally free

I change my hairstyle every day for the show, I'm fastidious and vain about my nails and teeth and grooming and makeup, but a perfect body, forget it. Dust to dust, wuggies to wuggies.

Many things about our bodies would not seem to us so filthy and obscene if we did not have the idea of nobility in our heads.

Here lies the body of my good horse, The General. For years he bore me around the circuit of my practice and all that time he never made a blunder. Would that his master could say the same.

Whenever we find stiffness in the body, our mind should be especially supple. It is never the stiffness in our bodies that limits our practice, it is always the stiffness of our mind.

Censor the body and you censor breath and speech at the same time. Write yourself. Your body must be heard.

What's so wonderful about ballet is that it's mind-driven physicality. It's almost a Greek ideal of body, mind, and form.

Healing is movement. Disease is inertia. If you put the body in motion, you will change.

You can't keep one disease and heal two others. When the body heals, it heals everything.

I thank God that my body has been able to handle this kind of workload. I don't know if I will ever be like Lorenzo White, but that's the goal I'm trying to get to.

It's your body, use it.. amuse it..because one day, you're gonna lose it!

The Magi are filled with awe by what they see; heaven on earth and earth in heaven; man in God and God in man; they see enclosed in a tiny body the One whom the entire world cannot contain.

The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the spell of the moment; the eye of the body is not always that of the soul.

I'm usually pretty lame when it comes to physical activity, but I'm like a Jedi on the badminton court. It's as if my body was built specifically for it - tall and lanky, with wrists like mousetraps.

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

Earth Mother, you who are called by a thousand names. May all remember we are cells in your body and dance together.

My brain's gone, my soul's worn and my spirit is torn The rest of my body's still bein operated on.

A body in motion tends to stay in motion unless acted on by an outside force.

The nationalism I seek is one that decolonizes the brown and female body as it decolonizes the brown and female earth

A black woman's body was never hers alone.

I have cellulite. So what?

Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity.

Let go of the battle. Breathe quietly and let it be. Let your body relax and your heart soften. Open to whatever you experience without fighting.

I can only think of music as something inherent in every human being - a birthright. Music coordinates mind, body and spirit.

I am a Korean War veteran. I support our troops as much as anyone in this body, but I do so by advocating redeployment out of Iraq as soon as it can be safely done.

Don't take your health for granted. Don't take your body for granted. Do something today that communicates to your body that you desire to care for it. Tomorrow is not promised.

It's your body. Tell it what to do.

For the first time in my life, I put my body and reputation on the line to stand up for my beliefs and do the right thing. I hope I've encouraged other people to do the same.

Do my movement and my thinking have an intimate connection? First of all, I don't think my body doesn't think.

When that white driver stepped back toward us, when he waved his hand and ordered us up and out of our seats, I felt a determination cover my body like a quilt on a winter night.

News is to the mind what sugar is to the body.

The practice of yoga induces a primary sense of measure and proportion. Reduced to our own body, our first instrument, we learn to play it, drawing from it maximum resonance and harmony.

An instructor once told me that when there's resistence in your body, it's only because of the resistence in your mind. It's about getting inside the pose. Being the breath.

There's always a race against time. I don't think for one moment that life gets better. How can it? One's body starts to fall apart.

Suddenly I realize That if I stepped out of my body I would break Into blossom.

One thing I've always thought about Morgana is that she's sort of a modern mind in a period body. She's not your usual warm princess, which is what drew me to her in the first place.