Top 1200 Bodily Functions Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

The grace of the spirit comes only from heaven, and lights up the whole bodily presence.

Every living thing is an elaboration of a single original plan. As humans we are mere increments - each of us a musty archive of adjustments, adaptations, modifications and providential tinkerings stretching back to 3,8 billion years. Remarkably we are even quite closely related to fruit and vegetables. About half the chemical functions that take place in a banana are fundamentally the same as the chemical functions that place in you. It cannot be said too often: all life is one. That is, and I suspect will ever prove to be, the most profound true statement there is.

Compassion without detachment is attachment to the bodily platform.

Bodily exercises are to be done discreetly; not to be taken evenly and alike by all men.

Bodily changes take place, like the thing with the kick.

We do not "have" a body; rather, we "are" bodily.

Sex has to do with imagination, so the sky is the limit. If you're not doing bodily harm, why shouldn't you do what turns you on?

We are not these bodies, just souls having a bodily experience.

Every emotion is keyed into some bodily location, and taken all together, they form the emotional body.

Of all the afflictions that burden the human race, there is not one, whether spiritual or bodily, that cannot be healed by the Holy Scriptures.

Bodily decrepitude is wisdom; young We loved each other and were ignorant.

Emotion constantly finds expression in bodily position.

trouble always seems heavier when it is only one's thought and not one's bodily activity that is employed about it.

When you cast doubt on some bodily function- you don't know how sensitive the body is to that kind of idea.

If a monk can overcome two things, he can become free from the world. Bodily ease and vain-glory.

I can't talk religion to a man with bodily hunger in his eyes.

I am alarmed when it happens that I have walked a mile into the woods bodily, without getting there in spirit.

A servant of the Lord stands bodily before men, but mentally he is knocking at the gates of heaven with prayer.

The greatest gift for an individual or a nation... was abhaya, fearlessness, not merely bodily courage but absence of fear from the mind.

Poetry is language trying to become bodily experience.

Golf is an awkward set of bodily contortions designed to produce a graceful result.

Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty, bodily or mental.

Dance has a transformative effect on bodily trauma.

Laughter is a bodily exercise, precious to Health

Diseases of the mind impair the bodily powers.

... for our sake loosing within Himself the bonds of bodily birth, He granted us through spiritual birth, according to our own volition, power to become children of God instead of children of flesh and blood if we have faith in His Name (cf. Jn. 1:12-13). For the Savior the sequence was, first of all, incarnation and bodily birth for my sake; and so thereupon the birth in the Spirit through baptism, originally spurned by Adam, for the sake of my salvation and restoration by grace, or, to describe it even more vividly, my very remaking.

It is wonderful how the mind is stirred and quickened into activity by brisk bodily exercise.

My other bodily ailments have become mere matters of history.

For me, one of the pleasures of cats company is their devotion to bodily comfort.

The limits of pleasure are as yet neither known nor fixed, and that we have no idea what degree of bodily bliss we are capable of attaining.

All sorts of bodily diseases are produced by half-used minds.

Anytime my work can coax bodily fluids out of someone, I'm happy.

A famous, very often quoted phrase says: "That government is best, which governs least." I do not believe this to be a correct description of of the functions of a good government. Government ought to do all the things for which it is needed and for which it is established. Government ought to protect the individuals within the country against the violent and fraudulent attacks of gangsters, and it should defend the country against foreign enemies. These are the functions of government within a free system, within the system of the market economy.

Careless indifference and bodily restlessness in meditation cause negative vibrations.

Now even if I die, no one will be so grieved as to do himself bodily harm.

One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the bodily symbol of identity.

Our bodily eye findeth never an end, but is vanquished by the immensity of space.

People in high life are hardened to the wants and distresses of mankind as surgeons are to their bodily pains.

Maybe that's the whole teen oeuvre, you know covering people in disgusting bodily fluids and whatnot.

Try not to associate bodily defect with mental, my good friend, except for a solid reason

Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect, but of all human contemplations the most abhorrent is body without mind.

I'm careful, controlled, bodily conservative: if someone offered me a pill I'd only ever take a half.

Health is the first muse, comprising the magical benefits of air, landscape, and bodily exercise on the mind.

Poetry is the most bodily of the arts.

It is in this mutual dependence of the functions and the aid which they reciprocally lend one another that are founded the laws which determine the relations of their organs and which possess a necessity equal to that of metaphysical or mathematical laws, since it is evident that the seemly harmony between organs which interact is a necessary condition of existence of the creature to which they belong and that if one of these functions were modified in a manner incompatible with the modifications of the others the creature could no longer continue to exist.

My work is very bodily. It's not a shell, but a body.

No other natural bodily function is painful and childbirth should not be an exception

The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.

There’s a level at which words are spirit and paper is skin. That’s the fascination of archives. There’s still a bodily trace.

The first thing to remember is the dual nature of your mind. The subconscious mind is constantly amenable to the power of suggestion; furthermore the subconscious mind has complete control of the functions, conditions, and sensations of your body. Trust the subconscious mind to heal you. It made your body, and it knows all of its processes and functions. It knows much more than your conscious mind about healing and restoring you to perfect balance.

Vortices of pure energy can exist and, if my theories are right, can compose the bodily form of an intelligent species.

To know intense joy without a strong bodily frame, one must have an enthusiastic soul.

A man becomes spiritual insofar as he lives a spiritual life. He begins to see God in all things, to see His power and might in every manifestation. Always and everywhere he sees himself abiding in God and dependent on God for all things. But insofar as a man lives a bodily life, so much he does he do bodily things; He doesn't see God in anything, even in the the most wondrous manifestations of His Divine power. In all things he sees body, material, everywhere and always - "God is not before his eyes." (Ps. 35:2)

Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor

Suffering is dysfunctional, except as a bodily warning against danger. Psychologically and socially it's merely destructive.

Just as in the body, eye and ear develop as organs of perception, as senses for bodily processes, so does a man develop in himself soul and spiritual organs of perception through which the soul and spiritual worlds are opened to him. For those who do not have such higher senses, these worlds are dark and silent, just as the bodily world is dark and silent for a being without eyes and ears.

Every man has the right to life, to bodily integrity.

Do you know what an unwanted bodily condition is? It's a freshly hatched energy-summoning life-giving desire!

Whoever would not remain in complete ignorance of the resources which cause him to act; whoever would seize, at a single philosophical glance, the nature of man and animals, and their relations to external objects; whoever would establish, on the intellectual and moral functions, a solid doctrine of mental diseases, of the general and governing influence of the brain in the states of health and disease, should know, that it is indispensable, that the study of the organization of the brain should march side by side with that of its functions.

Bodily pain affects man as a whole down to the deepest layers of his moral being.