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It is not the body's posture, but the heart's attitude that counts when we pray.

I'm a fountain of blood. In the shape of a girl.

The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes within the souls of people when th...

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The infinite distance between the mind & the body is a symbol of the distance that is infinitely mor...

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Blaise PascalThe Mind on Fire: A Faith for the Skeptical and Indifferent

I can encourage my daughter to love her body, but what really matters are the observations she makes...

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Bring the mind into sharp focus and make it alert so that it can immediately intuit truth, which is ...

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I do not think either virginity or old age contemptible, and some of the shrewdest minds I have met ...

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The Church is everywhere represented as one. It is one body, one family, one fold, one kingdom. It i...

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Laws and principles are not for the times when there is no temptation: they are for such moments as ...

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You can change a body, but you can't change a soul. The heart wants what it wants.

A dress is a piece of ephemeral architecture, designed to enhance the proportions of the female body...

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What Olympians eat can vary tremendously depending not only on the events they're competing in, but ...

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When I think of what I already lived through it seems to me I was shedding my bodies along the paths...

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He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.

Put away these frozenjawed primates and their annals of ways beset and ultimate dark. What deity in ...

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I don't need plastic in my body to validate me as a woman.

Not only did he unleash his emotions through rivers of tears, but for several days he denied his bod...

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Craig GroeschelWeird: Because Normal Isn't Working

He puts us here to make an eternal difference.He puts us here to show everyone around us how much He...

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Craig GroeschelWeird: Because Normal Isn't Working

But just as your body needs sleep, your soul needs time to rest in God. To learn more about Him. To ...

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Craig GroeschelWeird: Because Normal Isn't Working

To withhold our bodies from religion is to exclude religion from our lives.

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Dallas WillardThe Spirit of the Disciplines : Understanding How God Changes Lives

One square yard of drag will slow a falling body almost twenty percent.

Leonardo believed his research had thepotential to convert millions to a more spiritual life. Last y...

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She lay outside in the courtyard, staring up at the raindrops… feeling them hit her body… trying to ...

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It's a thought," I said with a grin."That's exactly what it is, Dan - a thought - no more real than ...

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Dan MillmanWay of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives

It is a scientific fact that your body will not absorb cholesterol if you take it from another perso...

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I like to combine the dramatic emotional warmth of strings with the grooves and body business of dru...

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I see technology as being an extension of the human body.

The body is the outermost layer of the mind.

To get through life successfully, body and soul must translate each other correctly more often than ...

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But the real secret to lifelong good health is actually the opposite: Let your body take care of you...

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We are well on our way to a unified theory of biology that will merge body and environment, brain an...

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I have had a love-hate relationship with my body.

How language is webbed in the senses. Out of sand-blazed brilliance into quirky minds such as his, i...

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Food for the body is not enough. There must be food for the soul.

If it ever occurs to people to value the honour of the mind equally with the honour of the body, we ...

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Facts are to the mind what food is to the body.

Guy’s whole body was humming. Normally he thought only of his head – his eyes, his smile – and was a...

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The Church says: the body is a sin.Science says: the body is a machine.Advertising says: The body is...

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Eduardo GaleanoWalking Words

Christianity is not rationalism, but faith in God's revelation. A conspicuous, all-important item in...

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I don’t have perfect teeth. I’m not stick thin. I want to be the person who feels great in her body ...

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It's amazing people get so detached from what they eat and what they wear. No one has any contact wi...

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I don't have to get up in the morning and go beat up my body like I used to. I don't have to be out ...

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I used to say that you'll have 10 IP address on your body... and it looks like that's going to happe...

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the body is wiser than its inhabitants. the body is the soul. the body is god’s messenger.

The tension has worn us out. It is a deadly tension that feels as if a jagged knife blade is being s...

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Erich Maria RemarqueAll Quiet on the Western Front

Never order food in excess of your body weight.

In general, the more food we eat in its natural state - without additives - and the less it is refin...

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but there was an immediately perceptible vitality about her as if the nerves of her body were contin...

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My relationship with my body has changed. I used to consider it as a servant who should obey, functi...

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The NBA Schedule was made up by one man, Eddie Gottlieb, who had owned the Philadelphia Warriors. Ed...

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Three quick breaths triggered the responses: he fell into the floating awareness... focusing the con...

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If we deny the need for thought, Moneo, as some do, we lose the powers of reflection; we cannot defi...

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No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowl...

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There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.

Besides this I place another equally obvious confirmation of my view that opera is based on the same...

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The body is a big sagacity, a plurality with one sense, a war and a peace, a flock and a shepherd.

You had to be into sport and, sad to say, I'm a traitor to my country because I don't have a sportin...

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To know intense joy without a strong bodily frame, one must have an enthusiastic soul.

For real human beings, the only realism is an embodied realism.

The properties of mind are not purely mental: They are shaped in crucial ways by the body and brain ...

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George LakoffPhilosophy in the Flesh: The Embodied Mind and its Challenge to Western Thought

The more I work with the body, keeping my assumptions in a temporary state of reservation, the more ...

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In the popular imagination hairiness is like furriness, an index of bestiality, and as such an indic...

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The shadow escapes from the body like an animal we had been sheltering.

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Gilles DeleuzeFrancis Bacon: The Logic of Sensation

I didn’t hear words that were accurate, much less prideful. For example, I never once heard the word...

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Because I take care of my body, it doesn't look like the body of a woman of my years.

Let your body work until it is spent, but keep your mind for yourself.

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Haruki MurakamiHard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

Samsa looked down in dismay at his naked body. How ill-formed it was! Worse than ill-formed. It poss...

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Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack. We give it orders which...

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He’s like a hero come back from thewar, a poor maimed bastard living out the reality of his dreams.W...

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Economic depression cannot be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement. Economic wound...

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As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.

Every secret of the body was rendered up--bone risen through flesh, sacrilegious glimpses of an inte...

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Whatever happens to your body, your soul will survive, untouched...

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

She had a way of moving that moved him as much as music, which was what moved him most of all. Surel...

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J. K. RowlingThe Casual Vacancy

You can't get rid of it with exercise alone. You can do the most vigorous exercise and only burn up ...

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That moving carcass does but very inadequately symbolizes you....a subtle and immortal spirit.

A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained in arms, is the best most natu...

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If there's any object in human experience that's a precedent for what a computer should be like, it'...

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God gave me a great body and it's my duty to take care of my physical temple.

In the economy of the body, the limbic highway takes precedence over the neural pathways. We were de...

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She learned that an act intended to express love could have nothing to do with it. That her heart an...

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But if one observes, one will see that the body has its own intelligence; it requires a great deal o...

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Sex is full of lies. The body tries to tell the truth. But, it's usually too battered with rules to ...

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Your body's really only meant to compete at the highest levels of combat sports for a few years.

Love's mysteries in souls do grow,But yet the body is his book.

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John DonneThe Complete English Poems

Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dy...

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Quite often, while I'm getting up in the morning, I think my warranty is running out on these body p...

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Well, a man's mind can't stay in time the way his body does.

Coming out of sleep, I had the advantage of two worlds, the layered firmament of dream and the tempo...

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The only part of the conduct of any one, for which he is amenable to society, is that which concerns...

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To explain this a little further: Only the soul and the body are the natural constituent parts of me...

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John WesleyHow To Pray: The Best of John Wesley on Prayer

I came to abominate my body, I came to sense that two eyes, two hands, two lungs are as monstrous as...

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Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.

We have to go in places no body would ever think of going into were it not for the necessities of wa...

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You have to be able to center yourself, to let all of your emotions go. Don’t ever forget that you p...

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Appearing nude on film was not easy when I was twenty-six in Body Heat; it was even harder when I wa...

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Kathleen TurnerSend Yourself Roses: Thoughts on My Life

That there was no God was a given, as far as Hope was concerned, and being nice to people and making...

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Species go extinct because there are historical contraints built into a given body or a given design...

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Believing himself to be unseen by other bathers, he gave himself up to being alone with his body. He...

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