Quotes on body
Some people have a foolish way of not minding, or pretending not to mind, what they eat. For my part, I mind my belly very studiously, and very carefully; for I look upon it, that he who does not mind his belly will hardly mind anything else.
Johnson, Samuel
What we feel and think and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and viscera.
Huxley, Aldous
Why should a man's mind have been thrown into such close, sad, sensational, inexplicable relations with such a precarious object as his body?
Hardy, Thomas
The first idea that the child must acquire, in order to be actively disciplined, is that of the difference between good and evil; and the task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity.
Montessori, Maria
A trembling in the bones may carry a more convincing testimony than the dry documented deductions of the brain.
Powers, Llewelyn
Hormones, vitamines, stimulants and depressives are oils upon the creaky machinery of life. Principal item, however, is the machinery.
Fischer, Martin H.
If the mind, that rules the body, ever so far forgets itself as to trample on its slave, the slave is never generous enough to forgive the injury, but will rise and smite the oppressor.
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
I love the body. Flesh is so honest, and organs do not lie.
Core-Starke, Candea
Some patients I see are actually draining into their bodies the diseased thoughts of their minds.
Bercovitz, Zacharty
Your body is a temple, but only if you treat it as one.
Alauda, Astrid
The word arse is as much god as the word face. It must be so, otherwise you cut off your god at the waist.
Lawrence, D.H.
Man consists of two parts, his mind and his body, only the body has more fun.
Allen, Woody