Body Quotes - Page 10

Disease is the tax which the soul pays for the body, as the tenant pays house-rent for the use of the house.

An unhealthy mind, even in a healthy body, will ultimately destroy health.

The most important thing in your life is your health and your body. You can have all the education and you can have millions of dollars in the bank, but if you've got headaches every day, if you're fat and you are out of shape - what good is your money? Your health account and your bank account, build them both up!

Every person has a zakaat (to pay) and the zakaat of the body is fasting.

There is a large body of abolitionists in Clinton and Clark Counties in this state, and in Wayne County Indiana, that would undoubtedly support such a store, but whether their support would be sufficient, I am unable to say.

It is amazing how much crisper the general experience of life becomes when your body is given a chance to develop a little strength.

It is in your act that you exist, not in your body. Your act is yourself, and there is no other you.

Let me hear your body talk.

I'm usually pretty lame when it comes to physical activity, but I'm like a Jedi on the badminton court. It's as if my body was built specifically for it - tall and lanky, with wrists like mousetraps.

The art I like concentrates on the body. I don't have a feel for Poussin, but for Courbet, Velásquez - artists who get to the flesh. Visceral artists - Bacon, Freud. And de Kooning, of course. He's really my man. He doesn't depict anything, yet it's more than representation, it's about the meaning of existence and pushing the medium of paint.

I don’t show my body for a good cause... if one day in a concert I pull down my pants, I would leave without job to those reporters who say I’m a woman

I can only think of music as something inherent in every human being - a birthright. Music coordinates mind, body and spirit.

Having a body that is like a musical instrument, open enough to be able to resonate, literally resonate with what is coming both from the inside and from the outside, so that one is able to surrender to powers greater than oneself.

The body is so easily damaged, so easily disposed of, water and chemicals is all it is, hardly more to it than a jellyfish drying on sand.

Rule of thumb: Eat for what you're going to be doing, and not for what you have done. Don't take in more than you're willing to burn off.

Zebrowski says that if you killed someone else just hide the body, he's not starting over on the paperwork.

It is the mind that shapes the body

I'm a little self-conscious about my body. I love to wear hoodies because you can get cozy and eat some food and your belly doesn't show!

A body in motion tends to stay in motion unless acted on by an outside force.

Tough times don't last, tough people do, remember?

Any solid lighter than a fluid will, if placed in the fluid, be so far immersed that the weight of the solid will be equal to the weight of the fluid displaced. On floating bodies I, prop 5.

I'm not ready to be a woman yet. I'd like it if my body were more boyish. Maybe I'll like my curves when I'm older but right now they kind of make me squirm.

In our own selves sometimes we don't feel right in this body. I think it's because our original nature is eternally free

Rome wasn't built in a day. And neither was your body.

Do not neglect this body. This is the house of God; take care of it, only in this body can God be realized.