- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
Body Quotes
The body says what words sometimes can't.
This collection treats the body as both instrument and message - an athlete's offseason training routine, a dancer describing movement itself as their true voice, and the simple relief of letting the body soften rather than staying tense. See related lines in Body Language Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't have all answers, but as far as viewing my body... I'm in a place where I can look at my stretch marks and say, 'Oh, hey, stretch marks!' and I'm over it.
- Blown Away
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my early 30s, for a few months, I altered my body chemistry and hormones so that I was closer to a man in his early 20s. I was blown away by how dramatically my thoughts changed.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Despite erasure by the media and other patriarchal institutions, there was, by 1975, a substantial body of feminist writings as well as artwork, music, films, and organization of all kinds.
- Evident
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our church was a very spiritual church, and we were a very chosen people. The body was small, but the spirit was intense and very evident to anyone who passed by or came in.
- Exceedingly
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are not born all at once, but by bits. The body first, and the spirit later; and the birth and growth of the spirit, in those who are attentive to their own inner life, are slow and exceedingly painful.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every Body has so good an Opinion of their own Understanding as to think their own way the best.
- Contemplating
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds and business. Hence come those frequent absences, so observable in conversation; for whilst the body is confined to present company, the mind is flown to that which it delights in.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Just suppose that you could do a physical examination, not every year, which people do and which is almost worthless, but every minute, because you're connected, and because we have devices that you can put on your body that measure virtually everything on your body.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
Novelists tend to go off at 70, and I'm in a funk about it, I've got myself into a real paranoid funk about it, how the talent dies before the body.
- Blessed
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nevertheless the meaning is not that the blessed bread which is divided, which is offered, and which the apostles received from the hand of Christ was not the body of Christ but becomes the body of Christ when the eating of it is begun.
- Diminishes
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- Nov 07, 2020
Clothing that covers the body can be comfortable or uncomfortable, depending on the fabric. In India I typically wear a full salwaar kameez of cotton, because it is superbly comfortable, and full covering keeps dust off one's limbs and at least diminishes the risk of skin cancer.
- Always
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- Nov 07, 2020
Disgust for the female body is always tinged with anxiety, since the body symbolizes mortality.
- Who
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- Nov 07, 2020
Who owns your body? You or the state?
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
Standards of beauty are arbitrary. Body shame exists only to the extent that our physiques don't match our own beliefs about how we should look.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020