Quotes about Body

Health is not a condition of matter but of Mind.

You must ascend a mountain to learn your relation to matter, and so to your own body, for it is at home there, though you are not.

We don't have a soul. We are a soul. We happen to have a body.

Why do you think Adam and Eve were concerned about uncovered genitals, but not bare arms, legs, noses, or ears?

Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs.

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

Each State, in ratifying the Constitution, is considered as a sovereign body, independent of all others, and only to be bound by its own voluntary act. In this relation, then, the new Constitution will, if established, be a federal, and not a national constitution.

Let us take refuge from this world. You can do this in spirit, even if you are kept here in the body. You can at the same time be here and present to the Lord. Your soul must hold fast to him, you must follow after him in your thoughts, you must tread his ways by faith, not in outward show.

We all have hourglass figures; your sand just settles in different places.

We fear that this moment will end, that we won't get what we need, that we will lose what we love, or that we will not be safe. Often, our biggest fear is the knowledge that one day our bodies will cease functioning. So even when we are surrounded by all the conditions for happiness, our joy is not complete.

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.

An aching tooth is better out than in. To lose a rotting member is a gain.