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“There are certain things you learn to do as a parent - using every single part of your body because you're multitasking all the time. You're holding the baby and you're closing the door with your left foot.”

Body Certain Left Parent Doors Feet Baby Your Body Closing Multitasking

Author:Amy Ryan

“Even you, who’ve lived inside your body for 64 years, would apparently be unable to recognize your foot in an isolated photograph of that foot, not to think of your ear or one of your eyes or elbow, also familiar to you in the context of the whole, but utterly anonymous when taken piece by piece. We are all aliens to ourselves, and if we have any sense of who we are, it is only because we live inside the eyes of others.”

Ifs Thinking Years Whole Body Eye Taken Pieces Feet Ears Photograph Your Body Familiar Aliens Who We Are Isolated Think Of You Elbows

Author:Paul Auster

“Polly Jean, I love you. I love the texture of your skin, the taste of your saliva, the softness of your ears. I love every inch and every part of your entire body. From your toes and the beautifully curved arches of your feet, to the exceptional shade and warmth of your dark hair. I need you in my life, I hope you need me too.”

Needs Body Dark Feet Love You Hair Taste Skins Ears Warmth Shade Inches Toes Exceptional Need You Texture Softness Arches I Need You Dark Hair Saliva

Author:Nick Cave

“Running is many things to me: survival, calmness, euphoria, solitude. It is proof of my corporeal existence, my ability to control my movement through space if not time, and the obedience, however temporary, of my body to my will. As I run I displace air, and things come and go around me, and the path moves like a filmstrip beneath my feet.”

Ifs Body Running Moving Ability Space Existence Path Air Feet Movement Solitude Survival Proof Obedience Temporary Calmness Comes And Goes Euphoria

Book:The Time Traveler's Wife

Source: The Time Traveler's Wife

“Back in the 1970s, I ate a high-protein diet to get bigger and stronger. As a senior at Utah State, I weighed 218 pounds with eight percent body fat, and threw the discus over 190 feet. Then I got some advice from the people at the Olympic Training Center. I needed carbs, they advised, and lots of them. They pointed to studies done on the American distance runners. Being an idiot, I took the advice to eat like emaciated, over-trained sub-performers. It took years of high carbohydrate grazing to learn the evils of this advice.”

“Language does for intelligence what the wheel does for the feet and the body. It enables them to move from thing to thing with greater ease and speed and ever less involvement.”

Doe Body Moving Language Greater Feet Intellect Speed Ease Wheels Involvement

Book:Understanding media: the extensions of man

Source: Understanding media: the extensions of man

“To take a journey of a thousand miles, you have to begin with the first step from the place where you stand; the romantic description of the journey and the things the body sees on the way and the description of the scenery are of no use unless you lift your foot and take the first step.”

Way Firsts Use Body Steps Journey Feet Thousand Travel Miles Lifts Description First Steps Scenery Thousand Miles Where You Stand Journey Of A Thousand Miles

Book:Blossoms of Friendship

Source: Blossoms of Friendship

“Look at that mallard as he floats on the lake; see his elevated head glittering with emerald green, his amber eyes glancing in the light! Even at this distance, he has marked you, and suspects that you bear no goodwill towards him, for he sees that you have a gun, and he has many a time been frightened by its report, or that of some other. The wary bird draws his feet under his body, springs upon then, opens his wings, and with loud quacks bids you farewell.”

Source: Ornithological Biography: Or An Account of the Habits of the Birds of the United States of America; Accompanied by Descriptions of the Objects Represented in the Work Entitled The Birds of America, and Interspersed with Delineations of American Scenery and Manners. 5 Vol. Il. Q.

“A great influence in my life was the sanctified or Holiness churches...Everybody in there sang and they clapped and stomped heir feet and sang with their whole body... Their music was so strong and expressive, it used to bring tears to my eyes.”

Whole Body Eye Used Strong Church Music Feet Influence Tears Holiness Heirs Expressive Great Influence

Author:Mahalia Jackson

“My hands, my feet, I throw my whole body to say all that is within me.”

Whole Body Hands Feet

Author:Mahalia Jackson

“I like to walk, touch living Mother Earth—bare feet best, and thrill every step. Used to envy happy reptiles that had advantage of so much body in contact with earth, bosom to bosom. [We] live with our heels as well as head and most of our pleasure comes in that way.”

Source: To Yosemite and Beyond: Writings from the Years 1863-1875

“If you have eternal life at all, it simply means that you have the Son, Jesus Christ NOW! Eternal life is not a peculiar feeling inside! It is not your ultimate destination, to which you will go when you are dead. If you are born again, eternal life is that quality of life that you possess right now, at this very moment, in your own physical body, with your own two feet on the ground, and in the world TODAY! And where does this life come from? Of Him! He is that life! So if you have eternal life, it means that you have Somebody, Jesus Christ, and the life that you possess is of Him.”

“We ourselves, though we're guilty of every sin, are not just a work of God: we're image. Yet we have cut ourselves off from our Creator in both soul and body. Did we get eyes to serve lust, the tongue to speak evil, ears to hear evil, a throat for gluttony, a stomach to be gluttony's ally, hands to do violence, genitals for unchaste excesses, feet for an erring life? Was the soul put in the body to think up traps, fraud, and injustice? I don't think so.”

Thinking Soul Body Hands Eye Evil Speak Sin Cutting Violence Feet Ears Injustice Creator Tongue Lust Guilty Throat Stomach Allies Fraud Excess Traps Gluttony Soul And Body Erring

Author:Tertullian

“Souls without prayer are like bodies, palsied and lame, having hands and feet they cannot use.”

Soul Use Body Hands Prayer Feet Lame Hands And Feet

Book:The Interior Castle (Annotated Edition)

Source: The Interior Castle (Annotated Edition)

“It took the whole of Creation To produce my foot, my each feather: Now I hold Creation in my foot. Or fly up, and revolve it all slowly - I kill where I please because it is all mine. There is no sophistry in my body: My manners are tearing off heads - The allotment of death.”

Whole Body Feet Creation Produce Mines Please Manners Feathers Sophistry Allotments

Author:Ted Hughes

“I think my feet are my sexiest body part. People I find really sexy include Angelina Jolie, George Clooney and my mum.”

People Thinking Body Feet Sexy Mum Sexiest

Author:Halle Berry

“A body came flying out and landed at my feet. At first I thought it was Billy so I picked him up. But when I saw it wasn't I dropped him back down.”

Firsts Body Saws Feet Baseball Flying

Author:Mickey Mantle

“I'm not only my spirit buy my body, and who can decide how much I, my individual self, am conditioned by the accident of my body? Would Byron have been Byron but for his club foot, or Dostoyevsky Dostoyevsky without his epilepsy?”

Has Beens Self Body Spirit Individual Feet Clubs Accidents Dostoyevsky Byron Epilepsy

Author:W. Somerset Maugham

“You are a free man, and let no organization come between you and your best interests. Do not let any man, or any body of men, tell you where you shall work, or where you shall not work, when you shall work, or when, you shall not work. If a man wants to belong to a labor organization, let him belong. If he does not want to belong to a labor organization, let him have perfect liberty to stay out. You own yourself. Let no man put a manacle on your hand, or foot, or head, or heart.”

Ifs Men Want Heart Doe Body Hands Interest Perfect Liberty Feet Labor Organization Free Man Labor Day

Book:The Battle for Bread: A Series of Sermons Relating to Labor and Capital

Source: The Battle for Bread: A Series of Sermons Relating to Labor and Capital

“Sin! Sin! Thou art a hateful and horrible thing, that abominable thing which God hates. And what wonder? Thou hast insulted His holy majesty; thou hast bereaved Him of beloved children; thou hast crucified the Son of His infinite love; thou hast vexed His gracious Spirit; thou hast defied His power; thou hast despised His grace; and in the body and blood of Jesus, as if that were a common thing, thou hast trodden under foot His matchless mercy. Surely, brethren, the wonder of wonders is, that sin is not that abominable thing which we also hate.”

“Self-reflection is a desire felt by the body, as well as the soul. As dancers, healers, and saints all know, when you turn your attention toward even the simplest physical process - breath, the small movements of the eyes, the turning of a foot in midair - what might have seemed dull matter suddenly awakens.”

Source: The Book of the Courtesans: A Catalogue of Their Virtues