"Obviously from 12-years-old to 16-years-old, your body changes and that's nothing to be embarrassed about, but boy I was!"
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"Tea tempers the spirits and harmonizes the mind, dispels lassitude and relieves fatigue, awakens thought and prevents drowsiness, lightens or refreshes the body, and clears the perceptive faculties."
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"You have to be as light as you can be and not get weighed down and stuck in your emotion, stuck in your body, stuck in your head. You just want to always be trying to elevate somehow."
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"Jesus is interested in changing cultures, not just putting bodies in chairs."
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"When the body is sad, the heart languishes."
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"It is not true that the heart wears out - but the body creates this illusion."
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"Then at certain moments I remember one of his words and I suddenly feel the sensual woman flaring up, as if violently caressed. I say the word to myself, with joy. It is at such a moment that my true body lives."
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"Pay attention to your body. The point is everybody is different. You have to figure out what works for you."
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"What is the fear inside language? No accident of the body can make it stop burning."
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"This business of having been issued a body is deeply confusing... Bodies are so messy and disappointing."
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"God went out of me as if the sea dried up like sandpaper, as if the sun became a latrine. God went out of my fingers. They became stone. My body became a side of mutton and despair roamed the slaughterhouse."
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"The body is at its best between the ages of thirty and thirty-five."
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"While the faculty of sensation is dependent upon the body, mind is separable from it"
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"A body in motion can maintain this motion only if it remains in contact with a mover."
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"A vivid image compels the whole body to follow."
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"That body is heavier than another which, in an equal bulk, moves downward quicker."
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"Even if we could suppose the citizen body to be virtuous, without each of them being so, yet the latter would be better, for in the virtue of each the virtue of all is involved."
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"So, if we must give a general formula applicable to all kinds of soul, we must describe it as the first actuality [entelechy] of anatural organized body."
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"I know a lot of athletes and models are written off as just bodies. I never felt used for my body."
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"It terrified me to consider: What if, as a grown-up, I craved another body beside me as still as this one? What then?"
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