Bob Marley
Musician, Singer-Songwriter
"The most beautiful curve on a woman’s body is her smile."
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Marcus Tullius Cicero
Politician, Philosopher, Orator
"A nation can survive its fools, even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within....for the traitor appears not to be a traitor...he rots the soul of a nation...he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist."
Coretta Scott King
Civil Rights Activist
"When the heart is right, the mind and the body will follow."
Huey Newton
Activist
"You can kill my body, and you can take my life but you can never kill my soul. My soul will live forever!"
Pythagoras
Philosopher, Mathematician
"Souls never die, but always on quitting one abode pass to another. All things change, nothing perishes. The soul passes hither and thither, occupying now this body, now that... As a wax is stamped with certain figures, then melted, then stamped anew with others, yet it is always the same wax. So, the Soul being always the same, yet wears at different times different forms."
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"The fastest way to still the mind is to move the body"
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"My body's feeling sore, but my soul is feeling pretty good."
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"We must turn to nature itself, to the observations of the body in health and in disease to learn the truth."
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"If I could give you only one advice, I would say: Don't identify with anything. Be completely empty - no one. Be no-body and see if you lose anything but delusion."
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"Each of the substances of a man's diet acts upon his body and changes it in some way and upon these changes his whole life depends."
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"Your body's just a vehicle, transporting the soul. It's what's inside of people, is beauty to behold."
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"Alas, what wickedness to swallow flesh into our own flesh, to fatten our greedy bodies by cramming in other bodies, to have one living creature fed by the death of another!"
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"Civilize the mind but make savage the body."
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"Friendship is one soul in two bodies."
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"The fury of a demon instantly possessed me. I knew myself no longer. My original soul seemed, at once, to take its flight from my body; and a more than fiendish malevolence, gin-nurtured, thrilled every fibre of my frame."
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"The body is a sacred garment. It's your first and last garment; it is what you enter life in and what you depart life with, and it should be treated with honor."
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"Put your body in motion and your psyche will heal itself."
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"What is to reach the heart must come from above; if it does not come from thence, it will be nothing but notes, body without spirit."
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"The experience of life in a finite, limited body is specifically for the purpose of discovering and manifesting supernatural existence."
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"A sick thought can devour the body's flesh more than fever or consumption."
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"They may torture my body, break my bones, even kill me. Then they will have my dead body, but not my obedience."
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"your body is not a temple, it's an amusement park. Enjoy the ride."
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"The moment I have realized God sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see God in him - that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free."
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"My soul is not contained within the limits of my body; my body is contained within the limitlessness of my soul."
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"The electric energy which motivates us is not within our bodies at all. It is a part of the universal supply which flows through us from the Universal Source with an intensity set by our desires and our will."
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