Body Quotes · Page 165

Perfection does not consist in macerating or killing the body, but in killing our perverse self-will.

— St. Catherine of Siena

I love my gymnastics and a flexible body, so I indulge in a lot of yoga from that aspect.

— Amyra Dastur

In this world everything changes except good deeds and bad deeds; these follow you as the shadow follows the body.

— Anonymous

Passions are the speech of our bodies, they are our vitality speaking.

— Martha Roth

I rest as long as I need to rest - I've had a whole life of learning to listen to my body.

— Hilaria Baldwin

You cannot devalue the body and value the soul Or value anything else.

— Wendell Berry

Blessed, blessed is that body horse which meditates on the Lord God.

— Guru Nanak

The vaporish cocaine loosens the contours of their lives and sets their bodies adrift, and so they are untouchable.

— Jean Genet

We don't live alone. We are members of one body. We are responsible for each other. And I tell you that the…

— Anonymous

Bodybuilding is about building your body. Whether you do it to maintain your fitness levels, climb Everest, run the marathon, or be…

— Ronnie Coleman

Discipline, for the Christian, begins with the body. We have only one. It is this body that is the primary material given…

— Elisabeth Elliot

Those trees are your lungs. The earth recycles as your body. The rivers recycle as your circulation. The air is your breath.…

— Deepak Chopra

I have crossed over to a place where I never thought I’d be. I am someone I would have never imagined. A…

— Alice Hoffman

Everyone confesses that exertion which brings out all the powers of body and mind is the best thing for us; but most…

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

I go to a dance class myself called BBS - Body By Simone - its little mini dance routines and I am…

— Naomi Watts

I found out that I couldn't have a nervous breakdown. I tried a couple of times, but it just didn't work out.…

— Tom Smothers

What is the difference between a living thing and a dead thing? In the medical world, a clinical definition of death is…

— Leonard Sweet

As my body lay dead on that stretcher (he later recovered from being struck by lightning attracted by his cell phone), I…

— Dannion Brinkley

Sleep and meditation are key. Natural sleep for 8 hours will help remove toxins from the body, help consolidate memory, create order…

— Deepak Chopra

The members of a body-politic call it "the state" when it is passive, "the sovereign" when it is active, and a "power"…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“The armchairs, with their flat, sedentary cushions, were designed for society, but the bed was made for solitude. It had a straitened…

— Amit Chaudhuri

There, in the center of that silence was not eternity but the death of time and a loneliness so profound the word…

— Toni Morrison

When I drink a Glass of water, it's thick and crawling with life. My mouth leads to the interior of my body…

— Michael Gira

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They come through you but…

— Anonymous

To me, if people think about wrestling, they think about elbow drops, body slams, and stringing somebody in the circle.

— Cesaro

Every thing in life is a uniform; the only time our bodies are truly in civilian dress is when we're naked.

— Jose Saramago

I got body lice in Germany! I'd tell you they were crabs, but I wasn't getting laid.

— Billie Joe Armstrong

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

— Tom Kelley

I'm still demanding a lot from my body and need to make sure I give back to it.

— Mat Fraser

I was a bit overweight as a teenager, which may be why I'm more comfortable playing with clothes than showing my body.

— Orla Brady

I'm becoming a frustrated director, I think, in an actor's body.

— David Wenham

Violent pleasures which reach the soul through the body are generally of this sort-they are reliefs of pain.

— Plato

I am convinced that we as a body must conduct a formal and legitimate debate about election irregularities.

— Stephanie Tubbs Jones

I don't think souls or bodies can be changed by incantation. Or anything else by the way.

— Christopher Hitchens

The disease of the heart is worse than the disease of the body.

— Anonymous

The mistake is that we cling to the body when it is the spirit that is really immortal.

— Swami Vivekananda

For ye are a corpuscle in the body of God; thus a co-creator with Him, in what ye think, in what ye…

— Edgar Cayce

I have permanent damage to my body because I wanted to be thin.

— Margaret Cho

When i feel tense, I remember to relax all of the muscles and organs in my body

— Louise Hay

There is peace more destructive of the manhood of living man than war is destructive of his material body.

— Douglas William Jerrold