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Chanel Iman Model
Body

"You learn to be comfortable in your own skin, and your body changes throughout life, so you can't sweat the small stuff."

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Charles James Fashion Designer
Body

"All my seams have meaning - they emphasize something about the body."

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Bruce Lee Martial Artist, Actor, Director
Body

"The most important thing to me is, how, in the process of learning how to use my body, can I come to understand myself ?"

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Samuel Johnson Lexicographer, Essayist, Critic
Body

"The luster of diamonds is invigorated by the interposition of darker bodies; the lights of a picture are created by the shades; the highest pleasure which nature has indulged to sensitive perception is that of rest after fatigue."

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Sri Chinmoy Spiritual Teacher, Poet, Musician
Body

"My soul-bird loves my body-cage Only when it is kept fit, Pure and absolutely immaculate."

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Rumi Poet, Philosopher
Body

"The body is a device to calculate the astronomy of the spirit. Look through that astrolabe and become oceanic."

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Rumi Poet, Philosopher
Body

"A divine dance appears in the soul and the body at the time of peace and union.Anyone can learn the dance, just listen to the music."

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Isaac Newton Mathematician, Physicist, Astronomer
Body

"Definition of inertia: 'The vis insita, or innate force of matter, is a power of resisting by which every body, as much as in it lies, endeavours to preserve its present state, whether it be of rest or of moving uniformly forward in a straight line."

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Keanu Reeves Actor, Producer
Body

"I had the classic 40 meltdown, I did. It's embarrassing. It was pretty funny. But then I recovered. To me, it was like a second adolescence. Hormonally, my body was changing, my mind was changing, and so my relationship to myself and the world around me came to this assault of finiteness."

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James Allen Author, Philosopher
Body

"The body is the servant of the mind. It obeys the operations of the mind, whether they be deliberately chosen or automatically expressed."

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