Body Quotes - Page 11

• Health is a state of complete harmony of the body, mind and spirit.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Health, Soul And Body, Mind

  "Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom". Book by B.K.S. Iyengar (p. 48), September 19, 2006.

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• If any thing is sacred, the human body is sacred.

  Walt Whitman

  Inspiring, Sacred Art, Leaves Of Grass

  1855 Leaves of Grass, 'Children of Adam', 'I Sing the Body Electric', section 8.

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• I live in company with a body, a silent companion, exacting and eternal.

  Eugene Delacroix

  Silent, Companion, Company

  1824 The Journal of Euge'ne Delacroix (translated by W Pach, 1948), entry for 4 Jun.

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• If you respect your body enough to put modest clothes on, then more people will respect you as a person.

  Sadie Robertson

  Clothes, People, Enough

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• Take care of your body with steadfast fidelity. The soul must see through these eyes alone, and if they are dim, the whole world is clouded.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Life, Motivational, Fitness

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• The philosopher's soul dwells in his head, the poet's soul is in his heart; the singer's soul lingers about his throat, but the soul of the dancer abides in all her body.

  Khalil Gibran

  Heart, Dancer, Soul

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• There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Faith, Wise, Bad Ass

  Mahatma Gandhi (2012). “The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas”, p.277, Vintage

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• Be not ashamed women, ... You are the gates of the body, and you are the gates of the soul.

  Walt Whitman

  Inspirational, Being Yourself, Women

  Walt Whitman (2005). “Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass”, p.68, Oxford University Press

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• this is her body this is her blood

  Saul Williams

  Blood

  Saul Williams (2009). “, said the shotgun to the head.”, p.139, Simon and Schuster

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• I think it went really well. There was part of me that really wanted to go with the rabbit. But, honestly one thing that I struggle with a lot is really just competing...being in a pack, running with a lot of bodies. I'm 17 and I'm still not really used to it, so the goal today was to just race.

  Mary Cain

  Running, Struggle, Athlete

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• The body is your temple. Keep it pure and clean for the soul to reside in.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Success, Spiritual, Wisdom

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• Under the continual contact with the pebbles my feet have become hardened and used to the ground. My body, almost constantly nude, no longer suffers from the sun. Civilization is falling from me little by little. I am beginning to think simply, to feel only very little hatred for my neighbor - rather, to love him.

  Paul Gauguin

  Fall, Thinking, Civilization

  Paul Gauguin (2012). “Noa Noa: The Tahitian Journal”, p.17, Courier Corporation

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• Truth is, most of us contain a splashing, giggling, squealing child who knows without thinking that bare skin and water go together as wings go with air, roots with earth, and the phoenix with incendiary sun. And innocence belongs to us as it did to ancient Greek athletes, who never wore clothes for their footraces or boxing matches but rather oiled themselves until their nude bodies glistened in the sunlight.

  Janet Lembke

  Children, Athlete, Thinking

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• The noblest art is the nude. This truth is recognized by all, and followed by painters, sculptors and poets. Only the dancer has forgotten it, who should remember it, as the instrument of [the dance] art is the human body itself.

  Isadora Duncan

  Art, Dancer, Remember

  Isadora Duncan (1909). “The Dance”

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• To be naked is to be oneself. To be nude is to be seen naked by others and yet not recognized for oneself. A naked body has to be seen as an object in order to become a nude. (The sight of it as an object stimulates the use of it as an object.) Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display. To be naked is to be without disguises.

  John Berger

  Sight, Order, Naked

  "John Berger obituary" by Michael McNay, www.theguardian.com. January 2, 2017.

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• The meditative person can transform his sexuality without any antagonism. without any conflict. He is in deep friendship with all his energies, sexual or others; he is not in any fight. Why fight with your own energies? Love them, rejoice in them, and help them to transcend the lower forms, the animal forms. Let them move from the body towards the turiya, the fourth.

  Rajneesh

  Moving, Fighting, Animal

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• If you want to change from sex towards love, try to understand your sexuality. Watch it, watch the mechanicalness of it. See the futility, see the whole absurdity of it - it is not leading you anywhere. Become a little more refined, become a little more subtle. Look not for the body, but somebody's being. Watch, explore. Sooner or later you will find somebody who fits with you.

  Rajneesh

  Sex, Trying, Watches

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• Professors rarely speak of the place of eros or the erotic in our classrooms. Trained in the philosophical context of Western metaphysical dualism, many of us have accepted the notion that there is a split between the body and the mind. Believing this, individuals enter the classroom to teach as though only the mind is present, and not the body.

  Bell Hooks

  Believe, Philosophical, Erotic

  Bell Hooks (2014). “Teaching To Transgress”, p.199, Routledge

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• Yoga is the best thing for your sex life. It keeps you limber in all kinds of ways. It teaches you to love your body and your partner's body. But more than anything, it keeps your mind liquid, and nothing's sexier than that.

  Woody Harrelson

  Success, Sex, Yoga

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• If oxen and lions had hands and could paint with their hands and produce works of art, as men do, horses would paint the forms of the gods likes horses and oxen like oxen. Each would represent them with bodies according to the bodies of each. So the Ethiopians make their gods black and snub-nosed; the Thracians give theirs red hair and blue eyes.

  Xenophanes

  Art, Horse, Eye

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• Courage conquers all things:
  it even gives strength to the body.

  Ovid

  Inspirational, Strength, Courage

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