Body Quotes

The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around.

It is a constant change. Not one body is constant.

The most important thing to me is, how, in the process of learning how to use my body, can I come to understand myself ?

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

If you would seek health, look first to the spine.

A living body is not a fixed thing but a flowing event, like a flame or a whirlpool: the shape alone is stable, for the substance is a stream of energy going in at one end and out at the other. We are particularly and temporarily identifiable wiggles in a stream that enters us in the form of light, heat, air, water, milk, bread, fruit, beer, beef Stroganoff, caviar, and pate de foie gras. It goes out as gas and excrement - and also as semen, babies, talk, politics, commerce, war, poetry, and music. And philosophy.

My countrymen should have nerves of steel, muscles of iron, and minds like thunderbolt.

This noble body, equipped with everything necessary, almost to the point of bursting, also appeared to carry freedom around with it.

If you wonder what you were doing in the past, look at your body; to know what will happen to you in the future, look at your mind.

A man should inure himself to voluntary labor, and not give up to indulgence and pleasure, as they beget no good constitution of body nor knowledge of mind.

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.

A less 'brainy-culture' would learn to synchronise its body rhythms rather than its clocks.

It's simple, if it jiggles, it's fat.

The mind is but the subtle part of the body. You must retain great strength in your mind and words.

This is a delicious evening, when the whole body is one sense, and imbibes delight through every pore.

I have little bones.

The body and mind are dependent.

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

The diseases of the mind are more and more destructive than those of the body.[Lat., Morbi perniciores pluresque animi quam corporis.]

I sing the body electric.

The abdominal and waist region coordinate all parts of the body and act as the center or generator. Therefore, you can promote the ability to control the body's action and master your will more easily.

It is the want that creates the body.

A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises, I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise and independence to the mind. Games played with the ball, and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind. Let your gun therefore be your constant companion of your walks.

The body is the servant of the mind. It obeys the operations of the mind, whether they be deliberately chosen or automatically expressed.

I want to speak to the despisers of the body. I would not have them learn and teach differently, but merely say farewell to their own bodies-- and thus become silent.

Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect, but of all human contemplations the most abhorrent is body without mind.

This body is a combination. It is only a fiction to say that I have one body, you another, and the sun another.

You say 'I' and you are proud of this word. But greater than this- although you will not believe in it - is your body and its great intelligence, which does not say 'I' but performs 'I'.

I wear my heart on my sleeve. I wear my liver on my pant leg.

The land is the appointed remedy for whatever is false and fantastic in our culture...food for our mind, as well as our body.

You feel fine, and then, when your body can't keep fighting, you don't.

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.

He thought with a kind of astonishment of the biological uselessness of pain and fear, the treachery of the human body which always freezes into inertia at exactly the moment when a special effort is needed.

Once out of nature I shall never takeMy bodily form from any natural thing,But such a form as Grecian goldsmiths make

The health and vigor necessary for the practice of what is good, depend equally on both mind and body.

The scholar may be sure that he writes the tougher truth for the calluses on his palms. They give firmness to the sentence. Indeed, the mind never makes a great and successful effort, without a corresponding energy of the body.

Thirst after body is the great bane of human life.

I sometimes ask people, 'Can you be aware of your own presence? Not the thoughts that you're having, not the emotions that you're having, but the very presence of your very being?' You become aware of your own presence by sensing the entire energy field in your body that is alive. And that is the totality of your presence.

My facts shall be falsehoods to the common sense. I would so state facts that they shall be significant, shall be myths or mythologic. Facts which the mind perceived, thoughts which the body thought - with these I deal.

Civilization does everything for the mind and favors it entirely at the expense of the body.

A strong body makes the mind strong.

If the body be feeble, the mind will not be strong.

Our minds are as much given to laziness as our bodies.

When I die, I'm gonna leave my body to science fiction.

Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor

Freedom of Will-that is the expression for the complex state of delight of the person exercising volition, who commands and at the same time identifies himself with the executor of the order-who, as such, enjoys also the triumph over obstacles, but thinks within himself that it was really his own will that overcame them. In this way the person exercising volition adds the feelings of delight of his successful executive instruments, the useful underwills or under-souls-indeed, our body is but a social structure composed of many souls-to his feelings of delight as commander.

Why doesn’t the fattest man in the world become a hockey goalie?

On the deepest level, what I know for sure is that who I am, essentially, is consciousness and consciousness is timeless and it transcends the body; it transcends the psychological "me," the egoic self. Everybody can know themselves as consciousness.

The ideal build for a golfer would be strong hands, big forearms, thin neck, big thighs and a flat chest. He'd look like Popeye.

You can take care of your body, and it will low-key show you respect in turn.

Fasting is the first principle of medicine.

Little by little old age renders the body less powerful.

The body is only a tool of the mind. What the mind dictates the body will have to obey. Now I do not even think of water. I do not miss it at all.... I see I can do anything.

I hate a cramp, he thought. It is a treachery of one's own body.

"Ego," sayest thou, and art proud of that word. But the greater thing - in which thou art unwilling to believe - is thy body with its big sagacity; it saith not "ego," but doeth it.

The eyes, like sentinels, hold the highest place in the body.[Lat., Oculi, tanquam, speculatores, altissimum locum obtinent.]

I admit that thoughts influence the body.

Look, hasn't my body already felt like the body of a flower?

I sing the body that is electric! I celebrate the Self yet to be unveiled!

Sex and sleep alone make me conscious that I am mortal.