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Body Quotes - Page 108

It's as if I've arrived in a place where it's all spirit and no body -- an overwhelming sense of calm . . . I actually began to feel blessed.

Gloria Naylor, Maxine Lavon Montgomery (2004). “Conversations with Gloria Naylor”, p.25, Univ. Press of Mississippi

A garden must be looked unto and dressed as the body.

"The poetical works of George Herbert and Reginald Heber: With memoirs. Eight engravings on steel".

Shall I, to please another wine-sprung minde, Lose all mine own? God hath giv'n me a measure Short of His can and body; must I find A pain in that, wherein he finds a pleasure?

George Herbert (1809). “Herbert's Poems: with his Country Parson. A new edition to which is prefixed, the life of the author; from I. Walton”, p.78

The pride of the body is a barrier against the gifts that purify the soul.

George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.1720, ShandonPress

Actors between plays are like ghosts looking for bodies to inhabit.

Gail Godwin (2011). “The Finishing School”, p.144, Ballantine Books

As I kissed her the heat of her body increased, and it exhaled a wild, untamed fragrance.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez (2014). “Memories of My Melancholy Whores”, p.44, Penguin UK

Body am I entirely, and nothing else; and soul is only a word for something about the body.

Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.95, Penguin

To give us room to explore the varieties of mind and body into which our genome can evolve, one planet is not enough.

Freeman J. Dyson (1999). “The Sun, the Genome & the Internet: Tools of Scientific Revolutions”, New York : Oxford University Press