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Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower.

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It is so much more difficult to live with one's body than with one's soul. One's body is so much more exacting: what it won't have it won't have, and nothing can make bitter into sweet.

Lawrence, D. H.

Let me look at the foulness and ugliness of my body. Let me see myself as an ulcerous sore running with every horrible and disgusting poison.

Loyola, St. Ignatius

Why am I so determined to put the shoulder where it belongs? Women have very round shoulders that push forward slightly; this touches me and I say: One must not hide that! Then someone tells you: The shoulder is on the back. I've never seen women with shoulders on their backs.

Chanel, Coco

But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable.

E. M. Forster

Choose rather to be strong of soul than strong of body.

Pythagoras

Our bodies are our gardens to which our wills are gardeners.

William Shakespeare

Safeguard the health both of body and soul.

Cleobulus

I finally realized that being grateful to my body was key to giving more love to myself.

Oprah Winfrey

Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions and intelligence are beside that great elemental point.

Mcginley, Phyllis

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Our own theological Church, as we know, has scorned and vilified the body till it has seemed almost a reproach and a shame to have one, yet at the same time has credited it with power to drag the soul to perdition.

Farnham, Eliza

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The body is a sacred garment.

Martha Graham

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The more I work with the body, keeping my assumptions in a temporary state of reservation, the more I appreciate and sympathize with a given disease. The body no longer appears as a sick or irrational demon, but as a process with its own inner logic and wisdom.

Mindell, Thomas Arnold

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The human body is a peculiar device, pat it on the back and the head swells.

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Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing - peace is the measure.

George Melton

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He who loves the world as his body may be entrusted with the empire.

Lao-tzu

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Every man is the builder of a temple called his body.

Henry David Thoreau

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The mind's first step to self-awareness must be through the body.

George Sheehan

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The body says what words cannot.

Martha Graham

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I stand in awe of my body.

Henry David Thoreau

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What we feel and think and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and viscera.

Huxley, Aldous

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Be sure that it is not you that is mortal, but only your body. For that man whom your outward form reveals is not yourself; the spirit is the true self, not that physical figure which and be pointed out by your finger.

Cicero

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Our bodies communicate to us clearly and specifically, if we are willing to listen to them.

Shakti Gawain

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Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.

Marilyn Ferguson

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Each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms.

Gloria Steinem

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The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen's skin.

Steinem, Gloria

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A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world.

John Locke

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It's also helpful to realize that this very body that we have, that's sitting right here right now... with its aches and it pleasures... is exactly what we need to be fully human, fully awake, fully alive.

Pema Chodron

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I am convinced that life in a physical body is meant to be an ecstatic experience.

Shakti Gawain

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[The body is] a marvelous machine...a chemical laboratory, a power-house. Every movement, voluntary or involuntary, full of secrets and marvels!

Theodor Herzl

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In order to live a fully human life we require not only control of our bodies (though control is a prerequisite); we must touch the unity and resonance of our physicality, our bond with the natural order, the corporeal grounds of our intelligence.

Rich, Adrienne

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It is confidence in our bodies, minds and spirits that allows us to keep looking for new adventures, new directions to grow in, and new lessons to learn - which is what life is all about.

Oprah Winfrey

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If any thing is sacred the human body is sacred.

Walt Whitman

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The human body is not a thing or substance, given, but a continuous creation. The human body is an energy system which is never a complete structure; never static; is in perpetual inner self-construction and self-destruction; we destroy in order to make it new.

Brown, Norman O.

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He had not an ounce of superfluous flesh on his bones, and leanness goes a great way towards gentility.

Gaskell, Elizabeth

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There is but one temple in the universe and that is the body of man.

Novalis

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Hide your body in the Big Dipper.

Saying, Zen

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The basic Female body comes with the following accessories: garter belt, panty-girdle, crinoline, camisole, bustle, brassiere, stomacher, chemise, virgin zone, spike heels, nose ring, veil, kid gloves, fishnet stockings, fichu, bandeau, Merry Widow, weepers, chokers, barrettes, bangles, beads, lorgnette, feather boa, basic black, compact, Lycra stretch one-piece with modesty panel, designer peignoir, flannel nightie, lace teddy, bed, head.

Atwood, Margaret

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Wondrous hole! Magical hole! Dazzlingly influential hole! Noble and effulgent hole! From this hole everything follows logically: first the baby, then the placenta, then, for years and years and years until death, a way of life. It is all logic, and she who lives by the hole will live also by its logic. It is, appropriately, logic with a hole in it.

Ozick, Cynthia

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Oh, darling, let your body in, let it tie you in, in comfort.

Anne Sexton

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All we actually have is our body and its muscles that allow us to be under our own power.

Allegra Kent

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Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack.

Henry Miller

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Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced.

Sade, Marquis De

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The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation.

George Santayana

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The body is a community made up of its innumerable cells or inhabitants.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing peace is the measure.

Melton, George

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Men renounce whatever they have in common with women so as to experience no commonality with women; and what is left, according to men, is one piece of flesh a few inches long, the penis. The penis is sensate; the penis is the man; the man is human; the penis signifies humanity.

Dworkin, Andrea

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I live in company with a body, a silent companion, exacting and eternal.

Eugene Delacroix

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I live in company with a body, a silent companion, exacting and eternal. He it is who notes that individuality which is the seal of the weakness of our race. My soul has wings, but the brutal jailer is strict.

Delacroix, Eugene

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I'm not only my spirit buy my body, and who can decide how much I, my individual self, am conditioned by the accident of my body? Would Byron have been Byron but for his club foot, or Dostoyevsky Dostoyevsky without his epilepsy?

W. Somerset Maugham

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An impersonal and scientific knowledge of the structure of our bodies is the surest safeguard against prurient curiosity and lascivious gloating.

Stopes, Marie Carmichael