O Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with O. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Our bodies, apart from their brilliant role as drawing exercises, are the temples of our being. Like the bodies of all fauna, they deserve both our study and our appreciation.”
“Our Bodies, Ourselves is the bible for women's health--It has served as a way for women, across ethnic, racial, religious, and geographical boundaries, to start examining their health from a perspective that will bring about change.”
“Our bodies, speeches and minds need to be trained so that they will do anything we want. We can cry or laugh at once when we want to. Then it will be a natural response; we will cry when it is time to cry, and laugh when we should laugh. Do you understand? We can get angry when necessary; we can be gentle if we have to. We will completely become our own master. Then, no matter what we want to do, it will benefit the world. It is not difficult to attain this stage; all we need to do is to mediate.”
“Our bodily eye findeth never an end, but is vanquished by the immensity of space.”
Source: Giordano Bruno; his life and thought: With annotated translation of his work, On the infinite universe and worlds
“Our bodily food is changed into us, but our spiritual food changes us into it.”
“Our body and mind are not independent of each other but are two aspects of the same reality. If a sound mind is found only in a healthy body, a healthy body is also impossible without a sound mind.”
Source: 31 Ways to Happiness
“Our body and mind are only the medium of life but the soul operates it, so self-knowledge is the source of ultimate happiness.”
“Our body certainly learns from the signals associated with energy balance to adjust behavior: we respond to interoceptive cues to initiate eating when hungry, and food deprivation clearly increases food-seeking behavior in animals.”
Source: A Guide to the Psychology of Eating
“Our body constantly rejuvenates and replaces itself.”
“Our body craves what is in our bloodstream. Wheat, sugar, alcohol, coffee & de-vitalized foods are designed to be addictive!”
“Our body does get old, but our spirit, never. If we write well enough, we might even live forever.”
Source: Write Here Write Now: Standing at Attention Before My Imaginary Style Dictator
“Our Body function in unity,to get things done.The body of the world, should learn from our body.”
“Our body halves, when sexually combined, form a whole: intelligence which is a light, shines where we are al(l)one.”
“Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it finds.”
“Our body is a cenacle, a monstrance: through its crystal the world should see God.”
“Our body is a machine for living.”
“Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself.”
“Our body is a sacred temple
A place to connect with people.
As we aren't staying any younger
We might as well keep it stronger.”
Source: The Tao of Physical and Spiritual
“Our body is a small universe; to regulate emotions and feelings is a way of harmonization.”
“Our body is a surface onto which other people project their inner world. They’re not really seeing us. They’re seeing themselves.”
Source: Consciousness Rising
“Our body is a vessel of corruption; it is meant for death and for the worms, nothing more! And yet we devote ourselves to satisfying it, rather than to enriching our soul, which is so great that we can conceive nothing greater - no, nothing, nothing!”
“Our body is a well-set clock, which keeps good time, but if it be too much or indiscreetly tampered with, the alarm runs out before the hour.”
“Our body is dependent on heaven and heaven on the Spirit.”
Source: The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci
“Our body is important. It’s the first gift God gives us. We are meant to take care of it for the entire time we have it. We are meant to be grateful for it, use it, enjoy it, and learn from it. At the same time, we are not meant to obsess over it, be vain, be a hypochondriac, or be a pleasure seeker at other people’s expense.”
Source: Dance: A Spiritual Affair
“Our body is intelligent; we are stupid.”
“Our body is like a vehicle and our soul is a driver.”
Source: Enter Heaven
“Our body is not in space like things; it inhabits or haunts space. It applies itself to space like a hand to an instrument. And when we wish to move about, we do not move the body as we move an object.”
Source: The Primacy of Perception: And Other Essays on Phenomenological Psychology, the Philosophy of Art, History and Politics
“Our body is not made of iron. Our strength is not that of stone. Live and hope in the Lord, and let your service be according to reason.”
“Our body is simply a social structure made of many souls.”
“Our body is so linked to our emotions that some of us can identify how we feel from the physical manifestation of our emotion before we can
actually name our feelings. Physical symptoms – such as tight chests, clenched jaws or flushed faces – are all signs of feeling an intense emotion.”
Source: Paperback Therapy
“Our body is the place that our memories and dreams call home for the time being.”
“Our body is the sacrifice that God requires at this hour”
“Our body is the temple of our spirit.”
“Our body is there right now. You did not have to earn a thing. It is a gift. You are a hero every time you step out of your front door to do some exercise.”
“Our body-minds tumble, shift, ease their way through space and time, never static. Gender transition in its many forms is simply another kind of motion. I lived in a body-mind assigned female at birth and made peace with it as a girl, a tomboy, a dyke, a queer woman, a butch. But uncovering my desire to transition—to live as a genderqueer, a female-to-male transgender person, a white guy—challenged everything I thought I knew about self-acceptance and love.”
Source: Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling with Cure
“Our body remains alive, yet sooner or later our soul will receive a mortal blow. The perfect crime--for we don't know who murdered our joy, what their motives were, or where the guilty parties are to be found.”
Source: The Witch of Portobello
“Our body teaches us that health lies in balance and harmony, rather than in conflict and fighting.”
Source: Belly Button Healing: Unlocking Your Second Brain for a Healthy Life
“Our body's natural detoxification system is designed to support our health by eliminating waste products from our metabolism and from environmental toxins. Like any other hardworking system, it needs periodic rest and support to continue functioning optimally. This program will teach you how to rest and restore your body's natural detoxification abilities.”
“Our Bollywood stars who talk of being part of 100 crore films, I think I belong to the 1,000 crore club.”
“Our bombs are smarter than the average high school student. At least they can find Kuwait.”
“Our bond is not measured by the ease of our days, but by how we stand together in the face of adversity.”
Source: Beyond the Bouquet: A Symphony of Love in Fifty Movements
“Our bones ache only while the flesh is on them.”
Source: Nightwood
“Our bones ache only while the flesh is on them. Stretch it as thin as the temple flesh of an ailing woman and still it serves to ache the bone and to move the bone about; and in like manner the night is a skin pulled over the head of day that the day may be in a torment. We will find no comfort until the night melts away; until the fury of the night rots out its fire.”
Source: Nightwood: The Original Version and Related Drafts
“our bones like stems into the sky will forever cry victory”
“Our bones, flesh and blood are made up of the metals, liquids and minerals of the earth and everything on this planet is made up of the same things. As humans we have being, so everything on the earth does too in our culture, because we are made of the same thing.”
“Our bonfire burns brightly,
alighting our hot harvest.
Scarce seeds of winter's heat,
as its first dawn inflames.
Sprouting into a plant
that roots within my soul.
[Winter Solstice's Secret]”
Source: Wild Soul
“Our book is not for the learned, nor for the theologian, nor for the philosopher, but for the reader of English literature, of either sex, who wishes to comprehend the allusions so frequently made by public speakers, lecturers, essayists, and poets, and those which occur in polite conversation.
We trust our young readers will find it a source of entertainment; those more advanced, a useful companion in their reading; those who travel, and visit museums and galleries of art, an interpreter of paintings and sculptures; those who mingle in cultivated society, a key to allusions which are occasionally made; and last of all, those in advanced life, pleasure in retracing a path of literature which leads them back to the days of their childhood and revives at every step the associations of the morning of life.”
Source: The Age of Fable Volume 1
“Our books approach very slowly the things we most wish to know.”
Source: The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Our books are the deepest glimpses into our souls, the most raw and real anybody will ever find us.”
“Our books can know and remember for us, but cannot think for us.”