body quotes

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Philosophically considered, the universe is composed of Nature and the Soul. Strictly speaking, therefore, all that is separate from us, all which Philosophy distinguishes as the ‚Not Me,‘ that is, both nature and art, all other men and my own body, must be ranked under this name, ‚Nature.‘

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Let each know that for each the body, the mind and the soul have been freed to fulfill themselves.

Nelson Mandela

My brain and body and nervous system, they see a plane ride, a long plane trip, as an opportunity to sleep with nothing coming in, nothing to do. I just go offline the minute I’m on the plane.

Anthony Bourdain

Your body has space within you that cannot die.

Wayne Dyer

It’s crazy how fast you get out of shape if you miss a couple days of action.

Stephen Curry

Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.

Douglas MacArthur

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

Joseph Addison

For what Harley Street specialist has time to understand the body, let alone the mind or both in combination, when he is a slave to thirteen thousand a year?

Virginia Woolf

The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mold of the body and mind.

Virginia Woolf

A feeble body weakens the mind.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, time, dimension. Thereupon it reasons, and calls this nature necessity, and can believe nothing else.

Blaise Pascal

Hallow the body as a temple to comeliness and sanctify the heart as a sacrifice to love; love recompenses the adorers.

Khalil Gibran

There is one thing I have never taught my body how to do and that is to figure out at 6 A.M. what it wants to eat at 6 P.M.

Erma Bombeck

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

David Byrne

Death means change our clothes. Clothes become old, then time to come change. So this body become old, and then time come, take young body.

Dalai Lama

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.

John Muir

Our body is dependant on Heaven and Heaven on the Spirit.

Leonardo da Vinci

You see, you are a spirit, you have a soul, and you live in a body. You have emotions, you have thoughts, you have a will, and you have a conscience. You are a complex being! And Jesus came to heal every single part of you. There’s not one part that He doesn’t want to make completely whole.

Joyce Meyer

Everything we touch in our daily lives, including our body, is a miracle. By putting the kingdom of god in the right place, it shows us it is possible to live happily right here, right now.

Thich Nhat Hanh

Man consists of two parts, his mind and his body, only the body has more fun.

Woody Allen

The beginnings and ends of shadow lie between the light and darkness and may be infinitely diminished and infinitely increased. Shadow is the means by which bodies display their form. The forms of bodies could not be understood in detail but for shadow.

Leonardo da Vinci

Martyrs do not underrate the body, they allow it to be elevated on the cross. In this they are at one with their antagonists.

Franz Kafka

The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.

Mahatma Gandhi

In so far as the mind is stronger than the body, so are the ills contracted by the mind more severe than those contracted by the body.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

A beautiful body perishes, but a work of art dies not.

Leonardo da Vinci

I groan daily under a body of sin and corruption. Oh for the time when I shall drop this flesh, and be free from sin!

Charles Spurgeon

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

Edmund Burke

The eyes like sentinel occupy the highest place in the body.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

As long as your body is healthy and under control and death is distant, try to save your soul; when death is immanent what can you do?

Chanakya

Just as the soul fills the body, so God fills the world. Just as the soul bears the body, so God endures the world. Just as the soul sees but is not seen, so God sees but is not seen. Just as the soul feeds the body, so God gives food to the world.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

Alexander Hamilton

There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism, a pensioner, as it were, who dwells with the body.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Physical elegance, which is what I am talking about here, comes from the body. This is no superficial matter, but rather the way that man found to honour the way he places his two feet on the ground.

Paulo Coelho

Sleep is all about recovering. So if you’re not sleeping, you’re not recovering. And if you’re going to break your body down a lot, you better find ways to build it back up. And the only way to do that is get a lot of sleep. So for me, I go to bed at like 8:30, 9:00. As soon as I put my kids to bed. Because I’m up at 5:30 the next day.

Tom Brady

As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.

Hermann Hesse

We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.

Albert Camus

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

Steven Wright

We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one.

Aristotle

If there’s something dangerous, sauces are dangerous for the body.

Karl Lagerfeld

Games lubricate the body and the mind.

Benjamin Franklin

There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.

Mahatma Gandhi

A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.

Benjamin Franklin