Top 1200 Body Image Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

The body is ready to have babies. Nature wants it done then, when the body can handle it, not after 40, when the income can handle it.

Don't ask me to give in to this body of mine. I can't afford it. Between me and my body there must be a struggle until death.

Body love is more than acceptance of self or the acceptance of the body. Body love is about self-worth in general. It's more than our physical appearance.

There is a great difference between mind and body insomuch as body is by nature always divisible, and the mind is entirely indivisible.

A concentrated mind and a sitting body make for better prayer than a kneeling body and a mind half asleep.

The poet, distracted by politics, asks of poetry that it make itself useful like metal or flour, that it get ready to stain its face with coal dust and fight body to body.

Don't make the body do what the spirit does best, and don't put a big load on the spirit that the body could easily carry.

The body is made up of atoms and subatomic particles that are moving at lightning speed around huge empty spaces and the body gives off fluctuations of energy and information in a huge void, so essentially your body is proportionately as void as intergalactic space, made out of nothing, but the nothing is actually the source of information and energy.

A lot of people like to be supertiny, but I don't want a child's body - I want a woman's body that is extremely fit. It's so much sexier.

There is a buddhist proverb which I like a lot. It says: "Every body deserves mercy". That means that every body is holy.

A Christian woman's true freedom lies on the other side of a very small gate...humble obedience...but that gate leads out into a largeness of life undreamed of by the liberators of the world, to a place where the God-given differentiation between the sexes is not obfuscated but celebrated, where our inequalities are seen as essential to the image of God, for it is in male and female, in male as male and female as female, not as two identical and interchangeable halves, that the image is manifested.

Trauma dissociates us from the parts of our body that are wounded, so we have to leave our whole body. It's a journey you take your whole life, that coming back in, re-landing in your body, in your self, on the Earth. I think one of the reasons it's been so easy, in a way, for us to violate both women and the Earth is this profound dissociation that exists in everyone.

I acknowledge that the sacrament of the altar is very God's body in form of bread, but it is in another manner God's body than it is in heaven.

Human beings are divided into mind and body. The mind embraces all the nobler aspirations, like poetry and philosophy, but the body has all the fun.

Actors always start with the voice and language. That's wrong. They should start with the body. The body is an actor's most important resource.

I could never focus on my upper body as a skater, so I'm enjoying having symmetrical upper and lower body muscle.

I have a very fit body and have never faced any major injury problems. So yes, the secret to my success is my fit body.

Illness is the result of improper removal of toxins from the body. Oxygen is the vital factor which assists the body in removing toxins.

There are seven primary chakras located in the subtle physical body, the body of light and energy that is our awareness and that surrounds the physical.

I swam the race like I trained to swim it. It is not mathematical. I just let my body do it. It is a lot easier if you let your body do what it is trained for.

There is in the body, a current of energy, affection and intelligence, which guides, maintains and energizes the body. Discover that current and stay with it.

The whole world is like the human body with its various members. Pain in one member is felt in the whole body.

The soul is the cause or source of the living body. The terms cause and source have many senses. But the soul is the cause of its body alike in all three senses which we explicitly recognize. It is (a) the source or origin of movement, it is (b) the end, it is (c) the essence of the whole living body.

I argue that science would be much richer if it were multisensory. The problem with instrumentation is that instruments, unlike our senses, can be monosensory. Since the discovery of the electromagnetic spectrum - which is really the discovery that all energy coming from something has a wave form - in theory we could image anything along that spectrum. In fact, we don't, because only certain parts of the spectrum have been instrumentalized. But the new thing is computerization. You can take all the data, the measurement of the frequencies, and transform it into an image.

We can see from the experience of Odin that the image of the tree was the template within which all of the sacred world could be apprehended. The tree was the framework within which one "flew" to these Otherworlds. And since the exploration of sacred space was also a quest into the nature of human consciousness, the tree was regarded as an image of the ways in which we, humans, are constructed psychically. It was a natural model for our deepest wisdom, our highest aspirations.

First yoga deals with health, strength and conquest of the body. Next, it lifts the veil of difference between the body and the mind. Lastly, it leads the Sadhaka to peace and unalloyed purity.

I focus on different parts of the body on different days. It's usually high-intensity circuits and a lot of body weight stuff.

The mind and body communicate constantly. What the mind thinks, perceives, and experiences is sent from our brain to the rest of the body.

Within my body are all the sacred places of the world, and the most profound pilgrimage I can ever make is within my own body.

I am conscious of how my body signifies in every space. In every place of the world our body has a different significance.

I'm not a model - I have curves. I find things that accentuate my body, a woman's body, and I always wear things that I feel comfortable in.

I'm just naturally quite toned. My dad was like a body builder, so I've got my dad's body. Not all of it, thank God.

If you believe there is a God, a God that made your body, and yet you think that you can do anything with that body that's dirty, then the fault lies with the manufacturer.

In so far as the soul is a force residing in the body; it has therefore been said that the properties of the soul depend of the condition of the body.

Censor the body and you censor breath and speech at the same time. Write yourself. Your body must be heard.

I think the best way to get over your body issues is to just flaunt your body at every opportunity.

When you're in the more deeper stages of sleep - REM sleep, your body is quiet, but your mind is actually very active. So it's a time when your body and your brain is restoring itself. It's repairing any cell damage that happened during the day, it's really repairing, like I said, repairing your body, but also helps with digestion, helps with memory.

Your body begins to change when it burns and shakes... so when an exercise is challenging, I always think 'feel your body changing.

Within Inspirational Psychology, health doesn't refer to just the state of the body, but also the state of the mind, which affects the body.

A body - physical, astral, dead - might be treated as an object, might be adored and hated. So this story has emerged from the material that the body is.

When you want your body to perform at a high level, it's important to make sure you are giving your body quality nutrients.

The causal body holds the structure. The causal body is the coding. So you are not just scattered all over the ten thousand states of mind.

The intuitive mind is nonphysical. It is not part of the brain or any other cellular structure in the physical body. It is part of the causal body.

'Who am I?' The answer is 'I am God'. The body comes and goes, but the Atma is permanent. The body has birth and death, but the spirit does not have any of these. You reach the stage where you say, 'I am God', but even there, there is duality, 'God and I'. That is not the full Truth. When we breathe, the breath makes the sound of 'So-Hum', 'He am I'. There is still the body consciousness, the 'I'. But in deep sleep, the declaration of 'He' and 'I' falls away and only '0' and 'M' remain, 'Om'; there is only the One.

I believe that a healthy lifestyle isn't just a regular exercise routine or your eating habits, but a synergy of a healthy mind and body. To fuel my body, I am relentless about never eating anything that isn't of this Earth. I have no interest in putting stuff in my body that's made in a lab. Movement is vital. Whether it's running, cross training, hiking with the dogs, or walking the streets of New York, I am constantly active.

To be without health insurance in this country means to be without access to medical care. But health is not a luxury, nor should it be the sole possession of a privileged few. We are all created b'tzelem elohim - in the image of God - and this makes each human life as precious as the next. By 'pricing out' a portion of this country's population from health care coverage, we mock the image of God and destroy the vessels of God's work.

Dualists hold that body and soul are separate entities and that the soul will continue beyond the existence of the physical body.

I try to clear my mind of everything, I try to think of nothing. I just let my body act, the body can take control and do what it's trained to do.

Your body begins to change when it burns and shakes... so when an exercise is challenging, I always think 'feel your body changing.'

To regard the soul and body as one, or to ascribe to consciousness a physiological origin, is not detracting from its divinity; it is rather conferring divinity upon the body.

Learn to relax. Your body is precious, as it houses your mind and spirit. Inner peace begins with a relaxed body.

The body's immune system is like any other system of the body. Each of them have their vital function for the human host.

A woman's body is her body and what she wears or does not wear is her choice. Get over it and move on.

Spirituality does not lie in meditating on the body of an ex-master. Spirituality exists in mediating on your own inner body.

The planetary etheric body is a whole, unbroken and continuous; of this etheric body, those of the healer and the patient are integral, intrinsic parts.

Just as it would be madness to settle on medical treatment for the body of a person by taking an opinion poll of the neighbors, so it is irrational to prescribe for the body politic by polling the opinions of the people at large.

The image of myself which I try to create in my own mind in order that I may love myself is very different from the image which I try to create in the minds of others in order that they may love me.

We become forgetful of the ego when we think of the body as dedicated to the service of others - the body with which most complacently we identify the ego.

The Pilates Method of Body Conditioning is gaining the mastery of your mind over the complete control of your body.

When the mind no longer sees itself as a body, forever in bondage to the body, the mind can be free and at peace even when we are physically sick.