Body Quotes

I see my body as an instrument, rather than an ornament.

When you are balanced and when you listen and attend to the needs of your body, mind, and spirit, your natural beauty comes out.

Girls' inner critics are starting to reveal themselves at a younger and younger age. And body image issues are an aspect of their lives which is causing them low self esteem and day-to-day suffering.

The body is meant to be seen, not all covered up.

It is shallow people who think beauty is frivolous or excessive. If you are bringing beauty and god, you are enriching the country. Rice feeds the body, books feed the mind, beauty feeds the soul. It is one thing I can really be proud of and stand tall in the world.

I found that the body, mind and spirit are all connected. They are not separate pieces.

I see dance being used as communication between body and soul, to express what it too deep to find for words.

I try to be realistic, listen to my body and know when to slow down.

Fast sex, like fast food, is cheap, but it doesn't nourish the body - or the soul.

Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

I do not pretend to know precisely what is on foot there; but I think it pretty evident that there is a very free communication between that country and this body, and unless I am greatly mistaken, I see the dwarfish medium by which that communication is kept up.

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

Whoso will pray, he must fast and be clean, And fat his soul, and make his body lean.

My dad had this rock hard body and would work 12- to 13-hour days. The guys he worked with were scrap-iron guys. Nobody on that road crew had read a book in 10 years, but there was something about the way they lived I really admired.

The good Lord was good to me. He gave me a strong body, a good right arm, and a weak mind.

The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest. The repose of the night does not belong to us. It is not the possession of our being. Sleep opens within us an inn for phantoms. In the morning we must sweep out the shadows.

You have to just accept your body. You may not love it all the way, but you just have to be comfortable with it, comfortable with knowing that that's your body.

I have a man and a woman in the same body; I have the male and female values in the same body.

All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul.

I see plainly how external images influence the image that I call my body: they transmit movement to it.

You can play a particular sport as long as you take good care of your body and you're confident enough and still have that hunger to where you want to be a part of an organization, a group of individuals where you feel you can contribute to the success of that team.

The Buddha is your real body, your original mind.

I like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more.

The human body has two ends on it: one to create with and one to sit on. Sometimes people get their ends reversed. When this happens they need a kick in the seat of the pants.

Me and my sisters all have such different body types.

Man was so created by the Lord as to be able while living in the body to speak with spirits and angels, as in fact was done in the most ancient times; for, being a spirit clothed with a body, he is one with them.

The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul.

Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.

I'm aware of my body.

In athletics, older runners tend to go for longer races, but it's the opposite in swimming because your body can't handle the endurance.