"You gotta be willing to fail...if you're afraid of failing, you won't get very far."
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"This is the body you've been given - love what you've got."
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"I know that I am more than my personality, my body, and my body image."
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"If you take care of your body, it'll take care of you."
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"I am nothing but a corpse now, a body at the bottom of a well."
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"A positive mental attitude is an irresistible force that knows no such thing as an immovable body."
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"You know the block was ill as a youngster Every night it was like a, cop would get killed body found in the dumpster"
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"This is why it is good to remember: if you want to get high, don’t drink whiskey; read Shakespeare, Tennyson, Keats, Neruda, Hopkins, Millay, Whitman, aloud and let your body sing."
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"We may love men and we may live with men, but some of them have said stupendously inaccurate things about us, our bodies, and our psyches."
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"Mike Tyson is a sharp puncher. Earnie Shavers was a PUNISHING puncher. There was a difference between the two. Because when Shavers hit you, you feel it all the way through your body."
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"Nature is man's inorganic body -- that is to say, nature insofar as it is not the human body. Man lives from nature -- i.e., nature is his body -- and he must maintain a continuing dialogue with it is he is not to die. To say that man's physical and mental life is linked to nature simply means that nature is linked to itself, for man is a part of nature."
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"I existed before I received this body. I am the external and fundamental life energy of the universe."
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"The monstrous sameness and pervasive ugliness so highly characteristic of the findings of modern psychology, and contrasting so obviously with the enormous variety and richness of overt human conduct, witness to the radical difference between the inside and the outside of the human body."
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"I want to be a work of art, at least in my soul, since I can’t be one in my body."
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"I enjoy wording. Words for me are tangible bodies, visible sirens, incarnate sensualities."
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"The mind grows sicker than the body in contemplation of it's suffering."
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"It is because the spirit is inestimable, that the lifeless body is so little valued."
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"I believe more in concrete spirituality rather than in a spirituality that is divided from the body and from nature."
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"I would tell to young people to sit on their heels. Children do that naturally so if they never had furniture they would do it. It's wonderful for all parts of the body."
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"Fire will burn any human body it touches, and starvation will waste it, but stories are not so predictable in their effects."
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