Body Quotes - Page 15

• Death is alive, they whispered. Death lives inside life, as bones dance within the body. Yesterday is within today. Yesterday never dies.

  Luis Alberto Urrea

  Yesterday, Alive, Today

  Luis Alberto Urrea (2006). “The Hummingbird's Daughter: A Novel”, p.11, Hachette UK

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• In the three minutes it takes the song to play I'm caught in a magic world of harmony and joy, a truly ecstatic joy, where the aching longing to be somewhere else, out of this city, out of this country, out of this body and out of this life, is kept at bay.

  Christos Tsiolkas

  Country, Song, Play

  Christos Tsiolkas (1995). “Loaded”, Random House Australia

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• To marry is to surrender everything--not only your body but your pride, your independence, even your life.

  Donna Woolfolk Cross

  Pride, Independence, Surrender

  Donna Woolfolk Cross (2009). “Pope Joan: A Novel”, p.64, Broadway Books

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• The single most important issue for traumatized people is to find a sense of safety in their own bodies.

  Bessel van der Kolk

  Issues, People, Safety

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• Wheatgrass juice is the nectar of rejuvenation, the plasma of youth, the blood of all life. The elements that are missing in your body's cells-especially enzymes, vitamins, hormones, and nucleic acids can be obtained through this daily green sunlight transfusion.

  Viktoras Kulvinskas

  Cells, Blood, Missing

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• Once a man offered me his heart and I said no. Not because I didn’t love him. Not because he was a beast or white — I couldn’t love him. Do you understand? In bed while we slept, our bodies inches apart, the dark between our flesh a wick. It was burning down. And he couldn’t feel it.

  Eduardo C. Corral

  Heart, Dark, Men

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• The ordinary people will consider it lack of simplicity to harmonize all the changes throughout ten thousand years. With a tired body and a frightened mind, they toil to avoid this and to take that. The sage alone has no prejudice. He therefore proceeds with utter simplicity and becomes one with transformation and always roams in the realm of unity.

  Guo Xiang

  Change, Tired, Years

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• It is a pink and blue feeling, as sharp as clear sky; a slight breeze, and the edges of Lake Nakuru would rise like the ruffle at the edge of a skirt; and I am pockmarked with whole-body pinpricks of potentiality. A stretch of my body would surely stretch as far as the sky. The whole universe poised, and I am the agent of any movement.

  Binyavanga Wainaina

  Lakes, Blue, Sky

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• God made the human body like a machine with built-in obsolescence.

  Vikas Swarup

  Machines, Obsolescence, Made

  Vikas Swarup (2013). “The Accidental Apprentice”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

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• At home, I dedicate occasional whole days to reading as if I’m a convalescent. The ideal place for this is the bath, where the body floats free. Books go a little wavy, but they’re mine, so who cares.

  Rachel Kushner

  Book, Reading, Home

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• For as the body grows old, so the wits grow old and become blind towards all things alike.

  Herodotus

  Blind, Wit, Grows

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• Architect's designs must refer to the unquestionable perfection of the body's symmetry and proportions. If a building is to create a sense of eurythmia, it is essential that it mirrors these natural laws of harmony and beauty

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  Mirrors, Law, Perfection

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• So a maiden, whilst she remains untouched, so long is she dear to her own; when she has lost her chaste flower with sullied body, she remains neither lovely to boys nor dear to girls.

  Catullus

  Girl, Flower, Boys

  "Delphi Complete Works of Catullus".

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• The Ethiops say that their gods are flat-nosed and black,
  While the Thracians say that theirs have blue eyes and red hair.
  “If oxen and horses and lions had hands and were able to draw with their hands and do the same things as men, horses would draw the shapes of gods to look like horses and oxen would draw them to look like oxen, and each would make the gods' bodies have the same shape as they themselves had.

  Xenophanes

  Horse, Eye, Men

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• Play with your physical workplace in a way that sends positive "body language" to employees and visitors.

  Tom Kelley

  Play, Innovation, Culture

  Tom Kelley (2016). “The Art Of Innovation: Lessons in Creativity from IDEO, America's Leading Design Firm”, p.296, Profile Books

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• We are social beings who make communities with an urgency, and it is a stern charge to make us take refuge in the lonely world of oneself. ...Racism attempts to occlude our cosmopolitanism (of the songs in and out of our bones), and it often appropriates our mild forms of xenophobia into its own virulent project. Difference among peoples is something that we negotiate in our everyday interactions, asking questions and being better informed of our mutual realities. To transform difference into the body is an act of bad faith, a denial of our shared nakedness.

  Vijay Prashad

  Song, Lonely, Xenophobia

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• They will often tell me they can't love themselves because they are so fat, or as one girl put it, 'too round at the edges.' I explain that they are fat because they don't love themselves. When we begin to love and approve of ourselves, it's amazing how weight just disappears from our bodies.

  Louise Hay

  Motivational, Girl, Health

  Louise L. Hay (1984). “You Can Heal Your Life”, p.21, Hay House, Inc

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• I slew him-this right hand struck the dagger to his heart. My deeds slew Christ. Alas! I slew my best beloved; I killed him who loved me with an everlasting love. Oh eyes, why do you refuse to weep when you see Jesus' body mangled and torn? Give vent to your sorrow, Christians, for you have good reason to do so.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Friday, Jesus

  Charles H. Spurgeon (2012). “The Spurgeon Series 1855 & 1856: Unabridged Sermons In Modern Language”, p.279, New Leaf Publishing Group

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• Life is like a box of chocolates, you fill your body with toxins,
  And amoxicillin and penicillin to cure your illness.
  But in realness? These medical companies will get you monthly
  Prescribing me pills that make me ill, just to comfort me.

  Termanology

  Rap, Hip Hop, Chocolate

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• When I get involved, I give it my heart,
  I mean my mind, my soul, my body: I mean every part.
  But if it doesn't work out, yo, it just doesn't.
  It wasn't meant to be, you know, it just wasn't.

  MC Lyte

  Rap, Mean, Heart

  Song: Paper Thin, Album: Lyte as a Rock

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• The business of beauty isn't a natural model;
  It's built to be the opposite of the cultures we topple.
  These magazines got you caught in a hustle,
  Cause when you starve yourself, your body doesn't burn fat, it burns muscles.

  Immortal Technique

  Rap, Opposites, Hip Hop

  Song: Natural Beauty, Album: The Martyr, 2011

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• She's not impressed by your fancy car.
  She got a body so she's snotty and she don't care who you are.
  So don't get mad and dis her reputation
  Callin' her a floozy, any conversation.
  Mad grammar, backstabber, girls they wanna be her.
  But like Stevie Wonder, none of y'all can see her!

  Positive K

  Girl, Rap, Fancy Cars

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• The mind tricks the body, Body thinks the mind is crazy.

  Buckshot

  Crazy, Rap, Thinking

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• I was about one drink away from my limit,
  In came a black dress with a black body in it,
  She looked so timid, it took me a minute
  To get her in focus

  Aceyalone

  Rap, Hip Hop, Focus

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• Politics is work. Hiphop is music. The idea that hiphop, because it makes the body feel good to move to it and it makes the soul feel good to hear out angry young black men, can be transmuted into changing the world is narcotic but nonsensical. Wherever hiphop is ever "going," we can be sure it will not be in a constructive direction, anymore than fashions in the color of cars. And it shouldn't "concern" us in the least.

  John H. McWhorter

  Fashion, Moving, Men

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