Body Quotes - Page 3

We have hands; we can stand on them if we want to. That's our privilege. That's the joy of a mortal body. And that's why God needs us. Because God loves to feel things through our hands.

Love's mysteries in souls do grow,
But yet the body is his book.

For real human beings, the only realism is an embodied realism.

Laws and principles are not for the times when there is no temptation: they are for such moments as this, when body and soul rise in mutiny against their rigour ... If at my convenience I might break them, what would be their worth?

Be brave. Be free from philosophies, prophets and holy lies. Go deep into your feelings and explore the mystery of your body, mind and soul. You will find the truth.

Let us at least say of religion that it means that every part of the body is infused with mind, not that the mind is overwhelmed and drowned in body. For the principal attribute of the Gods, without or within us, is mind.

I do not believe that, in order to be religious in the good and genuine sense of the word, one has to ruin one’s love life and has to become rigid and shrunken in body and soul.

Yes, it hurts to fall -
ache, tenderness
- but each scar is a sign your system is working.

I tried to push my body through his and completely disappear.

She was aware that in love even the most passionate idealism will not rid the body's surface of its terrible, basic importance.

I can’t relate to your razzle-dazzle, your wish
for voluptuous when my symphony is spanx.

Dance your Soulful path / and you shall know the magic / of your mind & heart / and all the beauty laughing / to fill your rising self.

No one has the right to demand that your body be something other than what it is.

The doctrine of a soul that outlives the body is anything but righteous, because it necessarily devalues the lives we live on this earth.

True biblical love is a selfless commitment of one’s body, soul, and spirit to the betterment of the other person.

You will be surprised how much punishment the human body can take, if there is enough will - or faith.

But if one observes, one will see that the body has its own intelligence; it requires a great deal of intelligence to observe the intelligence of the body.

And still the brain continues to yearn, continues to burn, foolishly, with desire. My old man's brain is mocked by a body that still longs to stretch in the sun and form a beautiful shape in someone else's gaze, to lie under a blue sky and dream of helpless, selfless love, to behold itself, illuminated, in the golden light of another's eyes.

Young girls are like helpless children in the hands of amorous men, whatever is said to them is true and whatever manipulation on their bodies seems like love to them, sooner or later, they come back to their senses, but the scars are not dead inasmuch as her spoiler lives.

You can't have a women's body without having her heart, mind and soul if only momentarily.