Body Quotes · Page 123

I like to express myself fully with my body, with my language, with my voice, and through directing.

— Nadine Labaki

Being in the health industry can do a major number on your head when it comes to body image.

— Kathryn Budig

Love's mysteries in souls do grow, But yet the body is his book.

— John Donne

“Please come home. Into your own body, your own vessel, your own earth.”

— Jane Hooper

With my meager knowledge of my own religion I do not want to belong to any religious body

— Mahatma Gandhi

Just as the soul animates the body, so, in a way, meaning breathes life into a word.

— John of Salisbury

When I die throw my body in the back and drive me to the junk yard in my Cadillac.

— Bruce Springsteen

I'm lucky. I think it's good that I have a body of work that addresses different things in different ways.

— Bell Hooks

What's your road, man? - holyboy road, madman road, rainbow road, guppy road, any road. It's an anywhere road for anybody anyhow.…

— Jack Kerouac

The words emerge from her body without her realizing it, as if she were being visited by the memory of a language…

— Marguerite Duras

To Edward, I cannot be a traitor, for I owe him no allegiance; he is not my sovereign; he never received my…

— William Wallace

A poet's soul must contain the perfect shape of all things good, wise and just. His body must be spotless and without…

— Augustine Birrell

Pain is the body's way of telling the brain it's in trouble. Similarly, confusion is the brain's way of telling the body,…

— Stephen Colbert

Behind your thoughts and feelings, my brother, there stands a mighty ruler. an unknown sage - whose name is self. In yourt…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

It is an eternal truth in the political as well as the mystical body, that where one member suffers, all the members…

— Anonymous

I love the night passionately... I love it with all my senses: I love to see it, I love to breathe it…

— Guy de Maupassant

One of the most basic human instincts is the need to decorate. Nothing is exempt - the body, the objects one uses,…

— Ada Louise Huxtable

I keep as far from children as possible. I don't like the size of them; the scale is all wrong. The head…

— Gore Vidal

I thought I was pretty average height. And then it just clicked to me - 'Yo, you're undersized.' I guess when I…

— Lou Williams

The recommendation by the Arkansas Supreme Court Disciplinary Committee that President Clinton be disbarred is like a tender green shoot of integrity…

— Mona Charen

When I sang that song, I felt it was almost as if some force had moved into my body. Things like that…

— Rita Coolidge

Your very eyes. How they have always been for me the command to obey, the inviolable and beautiful commandment. No, no, I'm…

— Robert Walser

There's a case in Baton Rouge, haunting me, where a mother left her twelve-year-old daughter to be babysat (every day for months)…

— Laura Mullen

What keeps this industry alive is creators doing their own work. Once you change a costume or origin enough times, it's a…

— Mike Mignola

I am dying by inches, from not having any body to talk to about insects.

— Charles Darwin

Crunches are my go-to. I do 100 crunches in the morning and at night to get myself going and get my body moving.

— John Wall

Your body is your temple. You do your body good, your body will do you good.

— Floyd Mayweather, Jr

Disease is the tax which the soul pays for the body, as the tenant pays house-rent for the use of the house.

— Ramakrishna

Yoga isn't just about the body, it's also about the mind and it's a technique that has really helped me.

— LeBron James

Sit, be still, and listen, because you're drunk and we're at the edge of the roof.

— Rumi

The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body from body.

— Quintilian

Whoever would have his body supple, easy and healthful should learn to dance.

— Socrates

When you get hit to the body, you don't even worry about your face no more.

— Henry Cejudo

I can be shy, but I'm not shy with my body. Everyone is naked under their clothes - so what?

— Cameron Richardson

Rage and bitterness do not foster femininity. They harden the heart and make the body sick.

— Marion Woodman

You need to tune your instrument, which is your body and your mind, and your soul.

— Abby Brammell

Allow your head to be quiet. Allow it to be still. Just for an hour and half. Just deal with your body…

— Colin Farrell

Courage was America's watchword, but a courage of the body rather than of the soul - physical courage, not moral.

— Mary Roberts Rinehart

When the body is in pain, a distorted area of awareness is crying out to the rest of awareness for help.

— Deepak Chopra

You may abandon your own body but you must preserve your honour.

— Miyamoto Musashi