"Take time to thank your body."
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"The problem isn't that we have bodies; the problem is that we're not living in them."
"Your body is the piece of the Universe youve been given."
"We are more than our bodies, it is true; but we cannot be divorced from them. They are us, and the only way in which we can see one another. Perhaps the gods are above this, but in their mercy, they have given us the guise of bodies."
"I didn't feel like I was in my own body; my body was just a lonely, temporary container I happened to be borrowing."
"Somewhere in his body--perhaps in the marrow of his bones--he would continue to feel her absence."
"So once you're dead there's just nothing? Mari: Basically... Korogi: I get so scared when I start thinking about this stuff. I can hardly breathe, and my whole body wants to shrink into a corner. It's so much easier to just believe in reincarnation."
"Virtue is to the soul what health is tot he body."
"(On The International Criminal Court) "For the victors of the Cold War to submit to an unelected, unaccountable, and almost certainly hostile body such as that envisaged would be the ultimate irony.""
"I don't know, now, when I first looked at Hella and found her stale, found her body uninteresting, her presence grating. It seemed to happen all at once—I suppose that only means that it had been happening for a long time."
"During the Suffragette revolt of 1913 I[urged] that what was needed was not the vote, but a constitutional amendment enactingthat all representative bodies shall consist of women and men in equal numbers, whether elected or nominated or coopted or registered or picked up in the street like a coroner's jury. In the case of elected bodies the only way of effecting this is by the Coupled Vote. The representative unit must not be a man or a woman but a man and a woman."
"The angles of my body show you an awful lot. I started doing coke to feel open, but by that time, the hole had opened so wide that I'd fallen through. The body language in those photos tells you everything."
"States have their conversions and periods as well as naturall bodies."
"The body is more drest then the soule."
"There is no body will go to hell for company."
"People have to have a desire within themselves to know who they are and the reason why they are in this body."
"Throughout much of our lives, our association with the temporary has risen. This transitory body, a sack of bones and flesh, is considered erroneously as our true body and we have accepted this temporary condition as conclusive."
"The soule needs few things, the body many."
"My body is my body, every part of it."
"I want the world to see my body."