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"To want and not to have, sent all up her body a hardness, a hollowness, a strain. And then to want and not to have- to want and want- how that wrung the heart, and wrung it again and again!"
"At times everything grows misty and dark before my eyes, and I feel that the strength of my whole body is oozing away through my finger tips."
"The body of a young woman is God's greatest achievement...Of course, He could have built it to last longer but you can't have everything."
"The soul is the prison of the body."
"You are not merely the body; you are 100% Pure Being. But you must find this out for yourself. It must become your own discovery, happening in your innermost being."
"Modesty is the conscience of the body."
"Wisdom is to the soul as food is to the body."
"Touring is hard on the body."
"To change the printout of the body, you must learn to rewrite the software of the mind."
"Modern medicine, for all its advances, knows less than 10 percent of what your body knows instinctively."
"We definitely aren't very good at staying in one place. There's not a domesticated bone in my body."
"A living body is not a fixed thing, but a flowing event, like a flame or a whirlpool."
"The best way to detoxify is to stop putting toxic things into the body and depend upon it's own mechanisms."
"Your body has natural healing capacities that nobody in the field of medicine can pretend ultimately to understand."
"There is no illness of the body except for the mind"
"The qualities of bodies, which admit neither intension nor remission of degrees, and which are found to belong to fill bodies within the reach of our experiments, are to be esteemed the universal qualities of all bodies whatsoever."
"An unhealthy soul requires a healthy body."
"In restaurants where they serve frog's legs, what do they do with the rest of the frog? Do they just throw it away? You never see "frog torsos" on the menu. Is there actually a garbage can full of frog bodies in the alley? I wouldn't want to be a homeless guy looking for an unfinished cheeseburger and open the lid on that"
"While all bodies share the same fate, all voices do not."
"Ah those knock-out body fluids: blood, sperm, tears!"
