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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.

A dress is a piece of ephemeral architecture, designed to enhance the proportions of the female body...

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What Olympians eat can vary tremendously depending not only on the events they're competing in, but ...

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When I think of what I already lived through it seems to me I was shedding my bodies along the paths...

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He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.

Put away these frozenjawed primates and their annals of ways beset and ultimate dark. What deity in ...

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I don't need plastic in my body to validate me as a woman.

Not only did he unleash his emotions through rivers of tears, but for several days he denied his bod...

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Craig GroeschelWeird: Because Normal Isn't Working

He puts us here to make an eternal difference.He puts us here to show everyone around us how much He...

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Craig GroeschelWeird: Because Normal Isn't Working

But just as your body needs sleep, your soul needs time to rest in God. To learn more about Him. To ...

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Craig GroeschelWeird: Because Normal Isn't Working

To withhold our bodies from religion is to exclude religion from our lives.

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Dallas WillardThe Spirit of the Disciplines : Understanding How God Changes Lives

One square yard of drag will slow a falling body almost twenty percent.

Leonardo believed his research had thepotential to convert millions to a more spiritual life. Last y...

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She lay outside in the courtyard, staring up at the raindrops… feeling them hit her body… trying to ...

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It's a thought," I said with a grin."That's exactly what it is, Dan - a thought - no more real than ...

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Dan MillmanWay of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives

It is a scientific fact that your body will not absorb cholesterol if you take it from another perso...

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I like to combine the dramatic emotional warmth of strings with the grooves and body business of dru...

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I see technology as being an extension of the human body.

The body is the outermost layer of the mind.

To get through life successfully, body and soul must translate each other correctly more often than ...

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But the real secret to lifelong good health is actually the opposite: Let your body take care of you...

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We are well on our way to a unified theory of biology that will merge body and environment, brain an...

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I have had a love-hate relationship with my body.

How language is webbed in the senses. Out of sand-blazed brilliance into quirky minds such as his, i...

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Food for the body is not enough. There must be food for the soul.

If it ever occurs to people to value the honour of the mind equally with the honour of the body, we ...

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Facts are to the mind what food is to the body.

Guy’s whole body was humming. Normally he thought only of his head – his eyes, his smile – and was a...

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The Church says: the body is a sin.Science says: the body is a machine.Advertising says: The body is...

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Eduardo GaleanoWalking Words