Body Quotes - Page 9

The disciplined soul hardly needs "Yoga" to control the body it temporarily resides in.

When your job is what defines you, when that is the be-all and end-all of your existence, what does a fake smile and a sallow look matter. You have to save your job to keep body and soul together, don't you?

Just as our parents' souls revolted against God, their bodies revolted against their souls, to which they had been subject. And they realized 'that they were naked.

Life never goes according to plan. That's okay, because often our plans are much smaller than life intends. Probably EASIER, but smaller.

The old duality of body and soul has become shrouded in scientific terminology, and we can laugh at it as merely an obsolete prejudice.

But just make someone who has fallen in love listen to his stomach rumble, and the unity of body and soul, that lyrical illusion of the age of science, instantly fades away.

Love yourself enough to take care of your health of mind, body, and soul as a top priority, then you'lll be fit to face anything.

You are a human being, not a human body.

Our shoes carry our body, so we polish them; our body carries our soul, so we clean the body, but, what about our soul”?

Do not keep the slanderer away,
treat him with affection and honor:
Body and soul, he scours all clean,
babbling about this and that.

In some cases, people with a body (whose size) they did not long for are victims of having a bank balance (whose size) they longed for.

Books are in the mind, Grandfather Alessandro said. Too many books and you forget your body is in the world.

In life there are two things which are dependable. The pleasures of the flesh and the pleasures of literature.

Towards the end of the season it is not bad to have the body. To have experienced joy as the mere lifting of hunger is not to have known it less.

Passion can transform the mind, body and spirit...
Passion can align you with the wisdom of nature and the power of what is in your heart.

They dream of men with gentle hands, eloquent with tenderness, fingers that brushed along a cheek, that outlined open lips in the lovers' braille. Hands that sculpted sweetness from sullen flesh, that traced breast and ignited hips, opening, kneading. Flesh becomes bread in the heat of those hands, braided and rising.

View your body as something God has entrusted into your care.

A clear line of distinctness must be drawn between the environment of the body and the environment of the mind or both the body and the mind be regarded as intertwined and be deprived of strength and efficiency. When the body is in crises, the mind must not be and when the mind is in crises, the body must not be. Such is tenacity and nimbleness

Live to learn to love.
Learn to love to live.
Love to live to learn
so that you may live the life that you yearn.

An active mind cannot exist in an inactive body.

Having a body is in itself the greatest threat to the mind... The body encloses the mind in a fortress; before long the mind is besieged on all sides, and in the end the mind has to give itself up.