Body Quotes - Page 19

• We declare that one who uses the God-given body of another without divine sanction abuses the very soul of that individual, abuses the central purpose and processes of life.

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Life, Soul, Abuse

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• It is often by a trivial, even an anecdotal decision, that we direct our activities into a certain channel, and thus determine which of the potential expressions of our individuality become manifest. Usually we know nothing of the ultimate orientation or of the outlet toward which we travel, and the stream sweeps us to a formula of life from which there is no returning. Every decision is like a murder, and our march forward is over the stillborn bodies of all our possible selves that will never be.

  Rene Dubos

  Self, Expression, Decision

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• I shall never get out of this! There are two of me now: This new absolutely white person and the old yellow one, And the white person is certainly the superior one. She doesn't need food, she is one of the real saints. At the beginning I hated her, she had no personality- She lay in bed with me like a dead body And I was scared, because she was shaped just the way I was only much whiter and unbreakable and with no complaints. I couldn't sleep for a week she was so cold.

  Sylvia Plath

  Real, Sleep, Two Of Me

  Sylvia Plath (2015). “Collected Poems”, p.141, Faber & Faber

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• Suffering has no strength to wound a weary body.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Inspiration, Suffering

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• When we marry, we are authorized to take possession of the other person, body and soul.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Inspiration, Soul

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• We must buy jewelry; it identifies us with our tribe, just as body piercing identifies those of a different tribe.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Inspiration, Different

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• Respect your body: you can only climb a mountain if you give your body the attention it deserves. You have all the time that life grants you, as long as you walk without demanding what can't be granted. If you go too fast you will grow tired and give up half way there. If you go too slow, night will fall and you will be lost. Enjoy the scenery, take delight in the cool spring water and the fruit that nature generously offers you, but keep on walking.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Giving Up, Spring

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• Body and soul need new challenges.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Inspiration, Challenges

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Apr 28, 2014

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• It takes a huge effort to free yourself from memory, but when you succeed, you start to realize that you’re capable of far more than you imagined. You live in this vast body called the Universe, which contains all the solutions and all the problems. Visit your soul; don’t visit your past. The Universe goes through many mutations and carries the past with it. We call each of those mutations a ‘life,’ but just as the cells in your body change and yet you remain the same, so time does not pass, it merely changes.

  Paulo Coelho

  Memories, Past, Cells

  "Aleph". Book by Paulo Coelho, 2011.

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• What the soul is to the body, so is the artist to his people.

  Gabriela Mistral

  Artist, People, Soul

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• There is only beauty / and it has only one perfect expression / poetry. All the rest is a lie /except for those who live by the body, love, and, that love of the mind, friendship. For me, Poetry takes the place of love, because it is enamored of itself, and because its sensual delight falls back deliciously in my soul.

  Stephane Mallarme

  Lying, Fall, Love Is

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• The principal effect of the passions is that they incite and persuade the mind to will the events for which they prepared the body.

  Rene Descartes

  Passion, Mind, Events

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• As a draft-animal is yoked in a wagon, even so the spirit is yoked in this body

  Thomas Hobbes

  Animal, Wagons, Spirit

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• For as to the strength of body, the weakest has strength enough to kill the strongest, either by secret machination or by confederacy with others that are in the same danger with himself

  Thomas Hobbes

  Secret, Enough, Danger

  Thomas Hobbes (1750). “The Moral and Political Works To which is Prefixed the Autors Life, Extracted from that Said to be Written by Himself ... Illustr. by the Ed. - London 1750”, p.148

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• I find that the old Roman baths of this quarter, were found covered by an old burying ground, belonging to the Abbey; through which, in all probability, the water drains in its passage; so that as we drink the decoction of the living bodies at the Pump-room, we swallow the strainings of rotten bones and carcasses at the private bath - I vow to God, the very idea turns my stomach!

  Tobias Smollett

  Ideas, Water, Rotten

  Tobias Smollett (1809). “The Miscellaneous Works of Tobias Smollett: Sir Launcelot Greaves. Humphry Clinker”

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• To any action there is always an opposite and equal reaction; in other words, the actions of two bodies upon each other are always equal and always opposite in direction.

  Isaac Newton

  Science, Opposites, Two

  Sir Isaac Newton (2014). “Newton: Philosophical Writings”, p.91, Cambridge University Press

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• No being exists or can exist which is not related to space in some way. God is everywhere, created minds are somewhere, and body is in the space that it occupies; and whatever is neither everywhere nor anywhere does not exist. And hence it follows that space is an effect arising from the first existence of being, because when any being is postulated, space is postulated.

  Isaac Newton

  Space, Mind, Doe

  Sir Isaac Newton (2014). “Newton: Philosophical Writings”, p.40, Cambridge University Press

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• Flesh is heretic.
  My body is a witch.
  I am burning it.

  Eavan Boland

  Burning, Flesh, Witch

  Eavan Boland (2013). “New Selected Poems”, p.32, Carcanet

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• To me, the mind seems to be spread out in the whole body - the senses are part of the brain. I guess they're not where the thinking is done.

  Sharon Olds

  Thinking, Brain, Mind

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• My will, my faith and my body have been challenged, but make no mistake, my heart is strong and my resolve to fight will never be broken.

  Anastacia

  Strong, Mistake, Heart

  "Anastacia fights on after cancer operation". news.bbc.co.uk. March 4, 2003.

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• As the soul, itself invisible, is seen by what it does through the body.

  Johann Albrecht Bengel

  Soul, Doe, Invisible

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• Film is the greatest teacher because it teaches not only through the brain but through the whole body

  Vsevolod Pudovkin

  Teacher, Brain, Film

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• Our law enforcement agencies have found bodies in the desert, either buried or just lying out there, that have been beheaded.

  Jan Brewer

  Lying, Agency, Law

  "Headless bodies and other immigration tall tales in Arizona". Article by Dana Milbank, www.washingtonpost.com. July 11, 2010.

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• Culture is for old people. When you're young you have your body, and that's all you need.

  John Currin

  People, Needs, Culture

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• You know, right often, the body is the best thing we’ve got going for us. A body itself is a shiny object. Something!

  Allan Gurganus

  Best Things, Objects, Knows

  Allan Gurganus (2010). “Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All: A Novel”, p.655, Vintage

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