"You've got to have something to eat and a little love in your life before you can hold still for any damn body's sermon on how to behave."
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"The entire Universe is condensed in the body, and the entire body in the Heart. Thus the Heart is the nucleus of the whole Universe."
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"The body is meant to be seen, not all covered up."
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"Within our control are our own opinions, aspirations, and desires and the demons that distract us from these goals. Outside of our control are such things as what kind of body we have, whether or not we are born into wealth, and how we are regarded by others."
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"It is in your act that you exist, not in your body. Your act is yourself, and there is no other you."
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"Before you heal the body you must first heal the mind"
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"Disease is the tax which the soul pays for the body, as the tenant pays house-rent for the use of the house."
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"You may bury my body down by the highway side. So my old evil spirit can catch a Greyhound bus and ride."
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"Prostitutes don't sell their bodies, they rent their bodies. Housewives sell their bodies when they get married."
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"Any solid lighter than a fluid will, if placed in the fluid, be so far immersed that the weight of the solid will be equal to the weight of the fluid displaced. On floating bodies I, prop 5."
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"Let me hear your body talk."
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"Healing is movement. Disease is inertia. If you put the body in motion, you will change."
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"A body in motion tends to stay in motion unless acted on by an outside force."
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"It took the whole of Creation To produce my foot, my each feather: Now I hold Creation in my foot. Or fly up, and revolve it all slowly - I kill where I please because it is all mine. There is no sophistry in my body: My manners are tearing off heads - The allotment of death."
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"Suddenly I realize That if I stepped out of my body I would break Into blossom."
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"My mind has been the most discontented and restless one that ever was put into a body too small for it.... I never felt my mind repose upon anything with complete and undistracted enjoyment- upon no person but you. When you are in the room my thoughts never fly out of window: you always concentrate my whole senses"
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"When the great Tao is forgotten, goodness and piety appear. When the body's intelligence declines, cleverness and knowledge step forth. When there is no peace in the family, filial piety begins. When the country falls into chaos, patriotism is born."
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"The passions are the voice of the body."
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"In order to live a fully human life we require not only control of our bodies (though control is a prerequisite); we must touch the unity and resonance of our physicality, our bond with the natural order, the corporeal grounds of our intelligence."
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"For what Harley Street specialist has time to understand the body, let alone the mind or both in combination, when he is a slave to thirteen thousand a year?"
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