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Body |
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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 (1632 - 1704) |
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| "You should pray for a sound mind in a
sound body." |
| -- Juvenal (55 AD - 130 AD) |
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| "This body is not a home but an inn, and
that only briefly." |
| -- Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4BC?-AD 65),
Roman philosopher, |
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| "The sovereign invigorator of the body is
exercise, and of all the exercises walking is the best." |
| -- Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826) |
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| “If
anything is sacred, the human body is sacred.” |
| --
Walt Whitman |
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| "The body is a sacred garment." |
| -- Martha Graham |
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| "The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts
working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until
you get into the office." |
| -- Robert Lee Frost (1874-1963), American poet |
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| "Man is to himself the most wonderful object in nature; for he
cannot conceive what the body is, still less what the mind is,
and least of all how a body should be united to a mind. This is
the consummation of his difficulties, and yet it is his very
being." |
| --
Blaise Pascal (1623 - 1662) |
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| "It is only necessary to make war with five things; with the
maladies of the body, the ignorances of the mind, with the
passions of the body, with the seditions of the city and the
discords of families." |
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Pythagoras |
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| "The sovereign invigorator of the body is exercise, and of all
the exercises walking is the best." |
| -- Thomas Jefferson (1743 -
1826) |
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| "Of all the possessions of this life fame is the noblest; when
the body has sunk into the dust the great name still lives." |
| -- Johann von Schiller |
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| "The mind can assert anything and pretend
it has proved it. My beliefs I test on my body, on my intuitional
consciousness, and when I get a response there, then I accept." |
| -- D. H. Lawrence |
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| "I find, by experience, that the mind and
the body are more than married, for they are most intimately united;
and when one suffers, the other sympathizes." |
| -- Earl of Chesterfield |
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| "He who loves the world as his body may be entrusted with the
empire." |
| -- Lao-tzu (604 BC - 531 BC) |
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| "Your body is precious. It is our vehicle
for awakening. Treat it with care." |
| -- Buddha (563 BC - 483 BC), Founder of
Buddhism |
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| "The body is shaped, disciplined, honored,
and in time, trusted." |
| -- Martha Graham |
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| "I see my body as an instrument, rather
than an ornament." |
| -- Alanis Morissette |
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| "The power of one is above all things The
power to believe in yourself Often well beyond any latent ability
previously demonstrated. The mind is the athlete, The body is simply
the means it uses." |
| -- Bryce Courtenay |
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| "To keep the body in good health is a
duty. . . otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and
clear." |
| -- Buddha (563 BC - 483 BC), Founder of
Buddhism |
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| "What spirit is so empty and blind, that
it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble than the
shoe, and skin more beautiful that the garment with which it is
clothed?" |
| -- Buonarroti Michelangelo (1475-1564), Italian
sculptor, painter, |
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| "To see a man fearless in dangers.
untainted with lusts, happy in adversity, composed in a tumult, and
laughing at all those things which are generally either coveted or
feared, all men must acknowledge that this can be from nothing else
but a beam of divinity that influences a mortal body." |
| -- Seneca (3 BC - 65 AD) |
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| "The great majority of us are required to
live a life of constant, systematic duplicity. Your health is bound
to be affected if, day after day, you say the opposite of what you
feel, if you grovel before what you dislike and rejoice at what
bring you nothing but misfortune. Our nervous system isn't just a
fiction, it's part of our physical body, and our soul exists in
space and is inside us, like teeth in our mouth. It can't be forever
violated with impunity." |
| -- Boris Pasternak |
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| "A good conscience is to the soul what
health is to the body; it preserves constant ease and serenity
within us; and more than countervails all the calamities and
afflictions which can befall us from without." |
| -- Joseph Addison |
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| "There is nothing better for the spirit or
the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and flattens
the stomachs." |
| -- Barbara Howar |
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| "Of all the possessions of this life fame
is the noblest; when the body has sunk into the dust the great name
still lives." |
| -- Johann von Schiller |
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| "I have said that the soul is not more
than the body, And I have said that the body is not more than the
soul, And nothing, not God, is greater to one than one's self
is." |
| -- Walt Whitman (1819-92), American poet |
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