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"Ballet is completely unnatural to the body, just being turned out... it's not the way your body is supposed to function, so you actually [...] train your body to be a different structure than you were born with."
"We are members of one great body. Nature planted in us a mutual love, and fitted us for a social life. We must consider that we were born for the good of the whole."
"Food is exacting. The face is truly a canvas upon which our food choices paint an accurate picture. The body is truly a sculpture, chiseled and polished by our food choices."
"I've done things to my body, mechanically, that I'll never do again. I've done stunts that I shouldn't have done 10, 11, 12 times. I've broken a ton of bones on sets."
"Well, you split your soul, you see, and hide part of it in an object outside the body. Then, even if one’s body is attacked or destroyed, one cannot die, for part of the soul remains earthbound and undamaged. But of course, existence in such a form . . ."
"Full nakedness! All my joys are due to thee, as souls unbodied, bodies unclothed must be, to taste whole joys."
"The cells in your body are completely loyal to you; they work for you in harmony. We can even say they pray to you. You are their God. That is absolutely the truth. Now what are you going to do with this knowledge?"
"As houses well stored with provisions are likely to be full of mice, so the bodies of those that eat much are full of diseases."
"What is required is faith. Man has body, life and mind but that is not all that constitutes man. He has risen to the mind as a result of evolution. Now a higher consciousness will be evolved - this I call Supermind. It is the instrument of the Divine Consciousness, the Truth-Consciousness."
"You are not your body; you are the eye. When you see the spirit, you are free of the body. A human being is an eye – the rest is just flesh and bones. Whatever your eye sees, you are that."
"Nothing records the effects of a sad life so graphically as the human body."
"On a whim, he stopped and bought a watch from a sidewalk vendor. Normally, Billy could not abide keeping time, especially when it was attached to one’s body. Time was like a relentlessly needy lapdog one had to haul around. It barked too much and had no sense of loyalty."
"All activities and events that a body is to go through are determined at the time of conception."
"We can do nothing without the body, let us always take care that it is in the best condition to sustain us."
"Analyze yourself. All emotions are reflected in the body and mind. Envy and fear cause the face to pale, love makes it glow."
"I'm willing to throw my body in front of the bus to stop bad ideas."
"This body of ours has one fault: the more you indulge it, the more things it discovers to be essential to it. It is extraordinary how it likes being indulged."
"My smile is my favorite part of my body. I think a smile can make your whole body."
"We have to keep the body in good health; we have to take care of what we eat and drink, and what we do."
"The words emerge from her body without her realizing it, as if she were being visited by the memory of a language long forsaken."
