- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Bodily Quotes
The body's role in memory, fear, and effort.
This collection of bodily quotes describes a disciplined, active life shaped by careful routine, alongside old ailments that eventually fade into mere memory. For more on wellbeing, see our Health quotes.
- Last Updated on Jul 30, 2026
- Kindness
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- Nov 07, 2020
We talk about feelings. And about sex. And about bodies, and their gratification, violation, repair, decoration, deferred, maybe permanently deferred, mortality. Feelings are a bodily thing, and respecting them is called, is, kindness.
- Ale
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- Nov 07, 2020
Brain power improves by brain use, just as our bodily strength grows with exercise. And there is no doubt that a large proportion of the female population, from school days to late middle age, now have very complicated lives indeed.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Few men have led a more active life - bodily or mentally - from a constitutional anxiety for regularity, precision, and order, during fifty years' business career, from which I had retired.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's amazing how much of a bodily experience being scared is. It doesn't take very long of hyperventilating to feel like you're going to pass out. It's one of those things where being scared is more of a physiological response that you can pretty easily manipulate. So in those types of scenes, it just takes a lot of energy.
- Golf
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- Nov 07, 2020
Golf is an awkward set of bodily contortions designed to produce a graceful result.
- Eating
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am inclined to think that eating is a private thing and should be done alone, like other bodily functions.
- Artist
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- Nov 07, 2020
My philosophy is that I'm an artist. I perform an art not with a paint brush or a camera. I perform with bodily movement. Instead of exhibiting my art in a museum or a book or on canvas, I exhibit my art in front of the multitudes.
- Prayer
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- Nov 07, 2020
Remember that bodily exercise, when it is well ordered, as I have said, is also prayer by means of which you can please God our Lord.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
What the spiritual investigator has to do to acquire the faculty of looking into the spiritual world consists exclusively of processes of spirit and soul; they have nothing to do with changes in the body, nor with visions arising from an abnormal bodily life.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm careful, controlled, bodily conservative: if someone offered me a pill I'd only ever take a half.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everyone knows that exercise can improve your health. Exercise is a key part of managing your weight and maintaining healthy hearts, lungs, and other bodily systems. But did you know that exercise can make you more productive? The latest research shows that a regular exercise routine can make you happier, smarter, and more energetic.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Maybe that's the whole teen oeuvre, you know covering people in disgusting bodily fluids and whatnot.
- Cause
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- Nov 07, 2020
Careless indifference and bodily restlessness in meditation cause negative vibrations.
- Focus
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- Nov 07, 2020