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Hindered by asthma since I was six weeks old, I had begun experimenting with my diet and discovered ...

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My body really, really wanted to reproduce when I was 15. It took a lot of civilization, socializati...

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Concrete you can mold, you can press it into - after all, you haven't any straight lines in your bod...

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We are bound to our bodies like an oyster to its shell.

We are one, after all, you and I, together we suffer, together exist and forever will recreate one a...

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It's like this, I think: the excellence of a good body doesn't make the soul good, but the other way...

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Physical excellence does not of itself produce a good mind and character: on the other hand, excelle...

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PlatoThe Republic

The human spirit is so utterly one with the body that the term "form" can be used of the body and re...

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I'm cool with myself. If I can't have the body of Angie Bassett, so be it.

Beauty is the virtue of the body as virtue is the beauty of the soul

In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs.

The body dies, but the spirit that transcends it cannot be touched by death.

As instruments for knowing the objects, the sense organs are outside, and so they are called outer s...

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My body is the shape I live in and it shapes the way I live.

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Raquel WelchRaquel: Beyond the Cleavage

So, if I give any credit, besides giving all credit to God, for being totally healthy, it's just my ...

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…Those who’ve marred their appearance in any way by their actions in life aren’t forced to witness t...

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Richard MathesonWhat Dreams May Come

A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbon...

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... Man is not truly one, but truly two... even if I could rightly be said to be either, it was only...

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Robert Louis StevensonThe Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Our minds, like our bodies, are in continual flux; something is hourly lost, and something acquired.

I think a smile can make your whole body. Models, they look fabulous, but they don't smile, and they...

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I wanted to get really fit. I wanted to lose some weight. So I've been doing Pilates and yoga, tryin...

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we are threatened with suffering from three directions: from our body, which is doomed to decay..., ...

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Sigmund FreudCivilization and Its Discontents

Belief in immortality is harmful because it is not in our power to conceive of the soul as really in...

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Simone WeilGravity and Grace

I have the body of an eighteen year old. I keep it in the fridge.

The doctrine of a soul that outlives the body is anything but righteous, because it necessarily deva...

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Steven PinkerThe Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature

When I die, I'm leaving my body to science fiction.

This human body is the greatest body in the universe, and a human being the greatest being. Man is h...

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This is a case without a body.The body does not come into it at all.

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Sylvia PlathAriel: The Restored Edition

Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.

No knowledge can be more satisfactory to a man than that of his own frame its parts their function...

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Space, like time, engenders forgetfulness; but it does so by setting us bodily free from our surroun...

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Let us at least say of religion that it means that every part of the body is infused with mind, not ...

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I am not my body. My body is nothing without me.

In this here place, we flesh; flesh that weeps, laughs; flesh that dances on bare feet in grass. Lov...

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The words went round and round and round in my mind and my body, until I knew they were no longer my...

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This body had carried me through a hard life. It looked exactly the way it was supposed to.

Masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in c...

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When the body escaped mutilation, seldom did the heart go to the grave unscarred.

My laps-meter, the first caliper of the soul and the first hope of bridging the dread chasm that has...

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I have said that the soul is not more than the body,And I have said that the body is not more than t...

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If any thing is sacred the human body is sacred.

The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press t...

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I do not believe that, in order to be religious in the good and genuine sense of the word, one has t...

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True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body the two are ever united.

Man has no Body distinct from his soul; for that called Body is a portion of a Soul discerned by the...

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Man has no Body distinct from his Soul; for that called Body is a portion of Soul discerned by the f...

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Energy is the only life and is from the Body and Reason is the bound or outward circumference of Ene...

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William BlakeThe Marriage of Heaven and Hell

Lost in the corn rows, I remember feeling just another stalk, and thus this country takes me over in...

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William H. GassIn the Heart of the Heart of the Country and Other Stories

The purpose of technology is not to confuse the brain but to serve the body.

What is fascinating is that it is physical. You know, that's one thing about intellectuals, they've ...

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They never look very big on the table, the bodies. It's built to accommodate the largest frames, the...

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Yann MartelThe High Mountains of Portugal

Marriage is a difficult project. When seven years have passed and all your body's cells have been re...

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When you take a shower in space, you have to press the water onto your body to clean yourself, and t...

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Even if I did have, you know, a 'Sports Illustrated' body, I'd still wear elegant clothes.

Then there are those who think their bodies don't exist. They live by mechanical time. They rise at ...

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I've just always felt it's an incredibly empowering thing, particularly for young women, to capitali...

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The cats sleep for days at a time and make love from the first star until dawn. Their pleasures are ...

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They say that, if we manage to live without too great an effort, it is entirely owing to the automat...

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Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.

Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.

All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.

If it weren't for the unconventionality of my desires, my mind might never have been forced to recko...

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Alison BechdelAre You My Mother?

Yoga means addition - addition of energy, strength and beauty to body, mind and soul.

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Amit RayMeditation: Insights and Inspirations

Be brave. Be free from philosophies, prophets and holy lies. Go deep into your feelings and explore ...

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Amit RayMeditation: Insights and Inspirations

Yoga is bringing fitness in body, calmness in mind, kindness in heart and awareness in life.

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Amit RayYoga The Science of Well-Being

Yoga is the process of eliminating pain – pain form the body, mind and the society.

The body is an amazing system.

Jazz is the music of the body. The breath comes through brass. It is the body’s breath, and the stri...

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Undernourished, intelligence becomes like the bloated belly of a starving child: swollen, filled wit...

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I cannot consent that my mortal body shall be laid in a repository prepared for an Emperor or a King...

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I like playing tennis. I've always enjoyed the process of being a tennis player; I'm just not sure t...

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Sculpture occupies the same space as your body.

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

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Anthony BourdainKitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly

I look at Jessica Alba and think she's got a great body. I think that's what women are supposed to l...

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I continuously go further and further learning about my own limitations, my body limitation, psychol...

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I rarely draw what I see. I draw what I feel in my body.

Some of life's greatest calls were answered not by the head but by the body.

Neighborhoods and communities are complex organisms that will be resilient only if they are healthy ...

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Liberation from the tyranny of the body contributes to greatness, but just as much to greatness in s...

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Bertrand RussellA History of Western Philosophy

I used to design for my body, which was flat-chested with big hips. That's why my clothes were tight...

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After thirty, a body has a mind of its own.

It is not the body's posture, but the heart's attitude that counts when we pray.

It is not the body's posture, but the heart's attitude that counts when we pray.

It is not the body's posture, but the heart's attitude that counts when we pray.

Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.

It is not the body's posture, but the heart's attitude that counts when we pray.

It is not the body's posture, but the heart's attitude that counts when we pray.

It is not the body's posture, but the heart's attitude that counts when we pray.

It is not the body's posture, but the heart's attitude that counts when we pray.

It is not the body's posture, but the heart's attitude that counts when we pray.

I'm a fountain of blood. In the shape of a girl.

The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes within the souls of people when th...

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The infinite distance between the mind & the body is a symbol of the distance that is infinitely mor...

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Blaise PascalThe Mind on Fire: A Faith for the Skeptical and Indifferent

I can encourage my daughter to love her body, but what really matters are the observations she makes...

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Bring the mind into sharp focus and make it alert so that it can immediately intuit truth, which is ...

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I do not think either virginity or old age contemptible, and some of the shrewdest minds I have met ...

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The Church is everywhere represented as one. It is one body, one family, one fold, one kingdom. It i...

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Laws and principles are not for the times when there is no temptation: they are for such moments as ...

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You can change a body, but you can't change a soul. The heart wants what it wants.