"Melancholy Is not, as you conceive, indisposition Of body, but the mind's disease."
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"Dreams, they're what sets us apart from being mere a brain and a body."
"Body my house my horse my hound what will I do when you are fallen"
"Balance in the body is the foundation for balance in life."
"In whatever you are doing, be one: body, soul, mind. Do it beautifully and with purity."
"And how much better to die in all the happy period of undisillusioned youth, to go out in a blaze of light, than to have your body worn out and old and illusions shattered."
"I am fascinated by Spinoza's pantheism, but admire even more his contributions to modern thought because he is the first philosopher to deal with the soul and the body as one, not two separate things"
"The Body Is Very Important, But The Mind Is MORE Important Than The Body"
"Our bodies penetrate the sofas upon which we sit and the sofas penetrate our bodies. The motorbus rushes into the houses which it passes, and in their turn the houses throw themselves upon the bus and are blended with it."
"Let me introduce the word 'hypertext' to mean a body of written or pictorial material interconnected in such a complex way that it could not conveniently be presented or represented on paper."
"Abode where lost bodies roam each searching for its lost one."
"The macrocosm is in its entirety in the body. The body is in its entirety in the heart. Therefore heart is the summarised form of all the macrocosm."
"Purity of soul and impurity of body can go together."
"I cannot make the universe obey me. I cannot make other people conform to my own whims and fancies. I cannot make even my own body obey me."
"My smile is my favorite part of my body. I think a smile can make your whole body. I want women to know that it's ok. That you can be whatever size you are and be beautiful inside and out."
"The body cannot be cured without regard for the soul."
"The reason why we have to acquire wealth is the body, because we are slaves in its service."
"Our bodies are at once the receiving and transmitting stations for life itself. It is the highest wisdom to recognize this fact and train our bodies to render them sensitive and responsive to nature, art and religion."
"In so far as the mind is stronger than the body, so are the ills contracted by the mind more severe than those contracted by the body."
"Our body is a machine for living."