Body Quotes · Page 191

Behead yourself!... Dissolve your whole body into Vision: become seeing, seeing, seeing!

— Rumi

Worship your body, beauty, and sexual allure and you will die a million deaths before they finally grieve you.

— David Foster Wallace

There is no reason that we should ever be ashamed of our bodies or ashamed of our love.

— David Levithan

People have the strength to overcome their bodies. Their beauty is in their minds.

— Peter Gabriel

Actually, if my business was legitimate, I would deduct a substantial percentage for depreciation of my body.

— Xaviera Hollander

Thinking of disease constantly will intensify it. Feel always 'I am healthily in body and mind'.

— Swami Sivananda

The reason for great distress is the body. Without it, what distress could there be?

— Laozi

your body is not a temple, it's an amusement park. Enjoy the ride.

— Anthony Bourdain

I've always been athletic. Growing up in Puerto Rico, and being in the countryside, I was always running around. I also played…

— Joan Smalls

The human body is not obscene, sexuality is not obscene. But it [pornography] is not sex, it is violence. It encourages acceptance…

— Gloria Steinem

We have all the money in the world but do not realise how important the body is. A player on average has…

— Per Mertesacker

I like the idea of imagining a sound and feeling a sound and then having it come out through your body, through…

— Tod Machover

The pens sharpen – Islamophobia! No such thing. Primitive Middle Eastern religions (and most others) are much the same – Islam, Christianity…

— Polly Toynbee

Nobody, absolutely nobody, straps a bomb on their body because they were recruited from the Internet. It takes an enormous amount of…

— Reza Aslan

Alcoholic drinks, rightly used, are good for body and soul alike, but as a restorative of both there is nothing like brandy.

— George Saintsbury

I just felt like, "Why would you discuss my body as if it's an object?" People will come up and say things…

— Rose McGowan

I was a ballet dancer. I did other kinds of dance but ballet was my great love. But then it became clear,…

— Greta Gerwig

It's wonderful to be able to have such wildly different projects in your body of work. They don't feel different to me…

— Robert Lopez

When I work on a film, you know, I try to get or inhabit the body of the character -from the vision…

— Keanu Reeves

So death obscures your gentle form, So memory strives to make the darkness bright; And, in that heap of rocks, your body…

— John Masefield

It's not that he lacked poetry. But his poetry was of the body, not the mind. He spoke it in the way…

— Meg Rosoff

A good athlete can enter a state of body-awareness in which the right stroke or the right movement happens by itself, effortlessly,…

— Laozi

Focus attention on the feeling inside you. Know that it is the pain-body. Accept that it is there. Don't think about it…

— Eckhart Tolle

Everything is reduced to what's physical in the end, because it's the filth inside people's minds that creates all the evil. What…

— Ray Davies

I don't see why I should be ashamed of my body. That's the one tool I use as a performer.

— Radhika Apte

One doesn't need a particular height or body to be a villain in movies. He needs the brain and the look.

— Ali

It's difficult but I'm respecting my body - what I can do I'm doing, and what I can't do I'm not.

— Ryan Mason

Blessed are they whose bodies get destroyed in the service of others.

— Swami Vivekananda

The heart stays the same, the body changes but the spirit stays forever youthful.

— Kim Wayans

Your ability to love, to reach out, and to experience life is limitless. The limitation is only of the body and mind.

— Jaggi Vasudev

The older you get, the more you start to understand your body, so I try to just focus on my body every…

— D'Angelo Russell

Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect, but of all human contemplations the most abhorrent is body without mind.

— Thomas Jefferson

We definitely aren't very good at staying in one place. There's not a domesticated bone in my body.

— Brent Smith

Your body actually reminds you about your age and your injuries - the body has a stronger memory than your mind.

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

I've sacrificed my body, my time, to be who I am and where I am.

— Julianna Pena

Costa Rica is not afraid to go before any international body.

— Laura Chinchilla

You need to take care of yourself, have a good diet, rest sufficiently and have a lot of enthusiasm.

— Raul

Heaven and earth! How is it that bodies join but never meet?

— Beah Richards

Your own body is a manifestation of God, and if you honor your body everything will change for you

— Miguel Angel Ruiz

The body is your temple. Keep it pure and clean for the soul to reside in.

— B.K.S. Iyengar