Navel Quotes

• Television is a triumph of equipment over people, and the minds that control it are so small that you could put them in a gnat's navel with room left over for two caraway seeds and an agent's heart.

  Fred Allen

  Art, Two, Gnats

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• The only man completely at peace is a man without a navel.

  Robert Jordan

  Men

  Robert Jordan (2010). “Lord of Chaos: Book Six of 'The Wheel of Time'”, p.885, Macmillan

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• Anybody can find infinite Mandelbrot figures in his navel.

  Poul Anderson

  Infinite, Figures

  Poul Anderson (2015). “Harvest of Stars”, p.366, Open Road Media

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• You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a fruit fly and still have room enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.

  Fred Allen

  Funny, Movie, Heart

  Quoted in J. R. Colombo, Wit and Wisdom of the Moviemakers (1979)

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• The ancient Greeks noticed that a man with arms and legs extended described a circle, with his navel as the center.

  Stephen Gardiner

  Men, Swag, Circles

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• Mom would kill me if I showed my navel.

  Brandy Norwood

  Mom, Kill Me, Ifs

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• Forty pictures I was in, and all I remember is 'What kind of bra will you be wearing today, honey?' That was always the area of big decision - from the neck to the navel.

  Donna Reed

  Decision, Sunglasses, Honey

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• The navel center will bring the power of all three of the lower chakras into your being, but with safety.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Chakra Meditation, Safety

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• Power comes from the navel center. If you meditate for an hour or so a day and you focus on that sphere, you will release a tremendous power that will enter your body. We call it the chi.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Chakra Meditation, Focus

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• For all parts of the body that we see fit to expose to the wind and air are found fit to endure it: face, feet, hands, legs, shoulders, head, according as custom invites us. For if there is a part of us that is tender and that seems as though it should fear the cold, it should be the stomach, where digestion takes place; our fathers left it uncovered, and our ladies, soft and delicate as they are, sometimes go half bare down to the navel.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Father, Feet, Air

  Michel de Montaigne (1965). “Complete Essays”, p.334, Stanford University Press

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• Keep some of your attention on your navel center when you are in a situation in which you feel your power is being drained. You will find that you will keep your power tighter, you won't lose as much.

  Frederick Lenz

  Attention, Situation, Feels

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• Don't pour the oil directly into my navel, pour it on my sternum and let it run down into my navel, you ignorant peasant.

  Garrison Keillor

  Running, Oil, Ignorant

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• Another thing very injurious to the child is the tying and cutting of the navel string too soon, which should always be left till the child has not only repeatedly breathed but till all pulsation in the cord ceases. As otherwise the child is much weaker than it ought to be, a part of the blood being left in the placenta which ought to have been in the child and at the same time the placenta does not so naturally collapse, and withdraw itself from the sides of the uterus, and is not therefore removed with so much safety and certainty.

  Erasmus Darwin

  Children, Cutting, Blood

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• I speak as your native guide to the mysterious tribe called the English. Dress code is everything. You can be a card-carrying Nazi, you can pay gigolos to eat gnocchi out of your navel and you won't be pilloried -- as long as you never, ever wear linen with tweed.

  Kathy Lette

  Long, Dresses, Dress Code

  Kathy Lette (2012). “Foetal Attraction”, p.48, Random House

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• If you are going to experience the ecstasy of enlightenment, it is not just going to be a phrase. You've got to work during meditation. So back to the navel center!

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Chakra Meditation, Enlightenment

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• The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Writing, Sea, Wade

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• I think there's nothing worse than inertia. You can inert and study your navel and gradually you'll fall off the chair. I think the key is to keep flying.

  Ridley Scott

  Fall, Thinking, Keys

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I have actually seen people contemplate their navels

  John Heilpern

  People, Contemplating

  John Heilpern (2013). “Conference of the Birds: The Story of Peter Brook in Africa”, p.282, Routledge

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• Close the eyes, and focus on the third eye, the heart chakra, or the navel center. It is a good idea to alternate them.

  Frederick Lenz

  Heart, Eye, Buddhism

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• I'd buy myself a cabin on the beach, I'd put some glue in my navel, and I'd stick a flag in there. Then I'd wait to see which way the wind was blowing.

  Albert Camus

  Beach, Wind, Waiting

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• Just think, Vishnu sleeps in the cosmic ocean, and the lotus of the universe grows from his navel. On the lotus sits Brahma, the creator. Brahma opens his eyes, and a world comes into being, governed by an Indra. Brahma closes his eyes, and a world goes out of being. The life of a Brahma is 432,000 years. When he dies, the lotus goes back, and another lotus is formed, and another Brahma. Then think of the galaxies beyond galaxies in infinite space, each a lotus, with a Brahma sitting on it, opening his eyes, closing his eyes.

  Joseph Campbell

  Ocean, Sleep, Eye

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.77, Anchor

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• Never utter a word if it is not from your navel point and it doesn't confirm your regal, highest self.

  Harbhajan Singh Yogi

  Communication, Self, Conscious

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• The soul started at the knee-cap and ended at the navel.

  Jose Lezama Lima

  Soul, Knees, Caps

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• I know a lot of people think therapy is about sitting around staring at your own navel - but it's staring at your own navel with a goal. And the goal is to one day to see the world in a better way and treat your loved ones with more kindness and have more to give.

  Hugh Laurie

  Kindness, Thinking, Goal

  "A Brighter Life for Hugh Laurie". Interview with Amy Jory, www.standard.co.uk. June 13, 2002.

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• I don't want to be looking inside my ego, my stuff, my achievements, my me, me, me, me, I hate that stuff. I just want to be out there eh to the last day of my life ah interested in the world, in causes, in helping other people. Um that doesn't mean that I don't have a spiritual practice, that I don't look at my own soul, that I don't prepare myself for the that transition that death is but I cannot sit in meditation to contemplate my navel for the rest of my life. That would be boring for me.

  Isabel Allende

  Spiritual, Hate, Mean

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