Body Quotes

I count on chiropractic sessions to keep my body aligned. Standing for hours can impact my posture, and that can throw the rest of my body out of whack. Acupuncture helps me relax and release stress. I'm also very into massage to help release tension in my back, neck, and shoulders.

I was what they call 'skinny fat' - a body that resembled a python after swallowing a goat.

I was bulimic and anorexic for a while, just hating my body. As an actress, I was never thin enough, never pretty enough. My boobs weren't big enough.

Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.

This camera works like photosynthesis. It is as if you were Xeroxing your own face. The pictures have such physicality: their surface is like fine leather, stained from chemicals. Each one has a body and is more than an image.

One ever feels his twoness - an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.

I've been a model for 15 years, and I've been on 'Top Chef' for eight seasons, and before that I had other cooking shows, so I've learned a thing or two about how to camouflage certain areas and how to draw the eye to a preferable area of the body.

Painting is a very difficult thing. It absorbs the whole man, body and soul, thus have I passed blindly many things which belong to real and political life.

I see my body as an instrument, rather than an ornament.

When you are balanced and when you listen and attend to the needs of your body, mind, and spirit, your natural beauty comes out.

Girls' inner critics are starting to reveal themselves at a younger and younger age. And body image issues are an aspect of their lives which is causing them low self esteem and day-to-day suffering.

The body is meant to be seen, not all covered up.

It is shallow people who think beauty is frivolous or excessive. If you are bringing beauty and god, you are enriching the country. Rice feeds the body, books feed the mind, beauty feeds the soul. It is one thing I can really be proud of and stand tall in the world.

I found that the body, mind and spirit are all connected. They are not separate pieces.

I see dance being used as communication between body and soul, to express what it too deep to find for words.

I try to be realistic, listen to my body and know when to slow down.

Fast sex, like fast food, is cheap, but it doesn't nourish the body - or the soul.

Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

I do not pretend to know precisely what is on foot there; but I think it pretty evident that there is a very free communication between that country and this body, and unless I am greatly mistaken, I see the dwarfish medium by which that communication is kept up.

I'm becoming a frustrated director, I think, in an actor's body.

Whoso will pray, he must fast and be clean, And fat his soul, and make his body lean.

My dad had this rock hard body and would work 12- to 13-hour days. The guys he worked with were scrap-iron guys. Nobody on that road crew had read a book in 10 years, but there was something about the way they lived I really admired.

The good Lord was good to me. He gave me a strong body, a good right arm, and a weak mind.

The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest. The repose of the night does not belong to us. It is not the possession of our being. Sleep opens within us an inn for phantoms. In the morning we must sweep out the shadows.

You have to just accept your body. You may not love it all the way, but you just have to be comfortable with it, comfortable with knowing that that's your body.

I have a man and a woman in the same body; I have the male and female values in the same body.

All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul.

I see plainly how external images influence the image that I call my body: they transmit movement to it.

You can play a particular sport as long as you take good care of your body and you're confident enough and still have that hunger to where you want to be a part of an organization, a group of individuals where you feel you can contribute to the success of that team.

The Buddha is your real body, your original mind.