Bodily Quotes

265 Bodily quotes by 211 unique authors

The prosaic man sees things badly, or with the bodily sense; but the poet sees them clad in beauty, with the spiritual sense. — Henry David Thoreau
...One who possesses four qualities is deposited in heaven as if brought there. What four? Bodily good conduct, verbal good conduct, mental good conduct, and… — Gautama Buddha
We mistakenly assume that bodily survival has a higher precedence than ego survival. This is simply not generally true. Ego will happily destroy the body… — Karl Marlantes
Vortices of pure energy can exist and, if my theories are right, can compose the bodily form of an intelligent species. — Lord Kelvin
Chronological time is what we measure by clocks and calendars; it is always linear, orderly, quantifiable, and mechanical. Kairotic time is organic, rhythmic, bodily, leisurely,… — Sam Keen
When a pastor continually makes light of the character of our Lord by speaking in scatological tones about the Son of Man's bodily functions in… — Steve Camp
When you cast doubt on some bodily function- you don't know how sensitive the body is to that kind of idea. — Ina May Gaskin
In a world where faith is often construed as a way of thinking, bodily practices remind the willing that faith is a way of life — Barbara Brown Taylor
To the non-initiate, whose experience of sexuality and bodily pleasure may be distorted by negative cultural conditioning, the introduction of sexuality into a sacred context… — Zeena Schreck
Patriarchy is not men. Patriarchy is a system in which both women and men participate. It privileges, inter alia, the interests of boys and men… — Ashley Judd
I have far more confidence in the one man who works mentally and bodily at a matter than in the six who merely talk about… — Michael Faraday
Laughter is a bodily exercise, precious to Health — Aristotle
Man is not man simply because of bodily attributes. The standard of divine measure and judgment is his intelligence and spirit — Abdu'l-BahÃ¡
Meditation is a journey to know yourself. Knowing yourself has many layers. Start knowing your bodily discomforts. Know your success, know your failures. Know your… — Amit Ray
I think pants have unique qualities, especially in a womanâ€™s life. Whatever bodily insecurities we have, we seem to take out on our pants. — Ann Brashares
Without awareness of bodily feeling and attitude, a person becomes split into a disembodied spirit and a disenchanted body. — Alexander Lowen
Our bodily eye findeth never an end, but is vanquished by the immensity of space. — Giordano Bruno
Isaac Newton was born at Woolsthorpe, near Grantham, in Lincolnshire, on Christmas Day, 1642: a weakly and diminutive infant, of whom it is related that,… — Augustus De Morgan
Was it for my good that the rein was laid loose, as it were, upon me, for me to sin? or was it not laid… — Saint Augustine
You can't suppress Bodily Functions — Cheech Marin

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211 authors contributed a total of 265 Bodily Quotes, led by these top contributors: