Home / Topics / Body Quotes

Body Quotes

Browse 16144 quotes about Body.

Body Quotes

“Sports and athletics can be a path in Zen, in concordance with daily practice of zazen meditation. You need to move with your spirit, not just with your body.”

Needs Body Moving Spirit Sports Practice Path Meditation Health Buddhism Your Body Athletics

Author:Frederick Lenz

“As I started to pursue the subject more deeply I realized that walking was this wonderful meandering path through everything I was already interested in - gender politics, public space and urban life, demonstrations and parades and marches. The relationship between walking and thinking and between the mind and the body.”

Thinking Mind Body Space Path Wonderful Subjects Walking Gender I Realized Pursue March Urban Demonstration Parades Urban Life

Author:Rebecca Solnit

“When the soul looks out of its body, it should see only beauty in its path. These are the sights we must hold in mind, in order to move to a higher place.”

Should Mind Looks Soul Body Moving Order Path Higher Sight

Author:Yusef Lateef

“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

“To have a body is to suffer. Does anyone with a body know peace? Those who understand this detach themselves from all that exists and stop imagining or seeking anything. The sutras say, "To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss." When you seek nothing, you're on the Path.”

Knows Doe Body Suffering Peace Existence Path Seeking Bliss

Book:The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma

Source: The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma

“The body is the vehicle, consciousness the driver. Yoga is the path, and the chakras are the map.”

Body Consciousness Path Yoga Maps Drivers Vehicle Chakra

Author:Anodea Judith

“Bodies like the earth are not made to move on curved orbits by a force called gravity; instead, they follow the nearest thing to a straight path in a curved space, which is called a geodesic. A geodesic is the shortest (or longest) path between two nearby points.”

Made Two Body Earth Moving Force Space Path Gravity Orbit Straight Path

Book:A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes

Source: A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes

“There is an utterance of Necessity, an ancient decree of the gods, eternal, sealed fast with broad oaths: whenever any one defiles his body sinfully with bloody gore or perjures himself in regard to wrong-doing, one of those spirits who are heir to long life, thrice ten thousand seasons shall he wander apart from the blessed, being born meantime in all sorts of mortal forms, changing one bitter path of life for another.”

Long Body Form Spirit Born Path Thousand Ten Eternal Seasons Regard Blessed Ancient Bitter Wander Mortals Broads Bloody Long Life Oath Gore Heirs Decree Utterance Thrice

Author:Empedocles

“There is a time when it is necessary to abandon the used clothes, which already have the shape of our body and to forget our paths, which takes us always to the same places. This is the time to cross the river: and if we don't dare to do it, we will have stayed, forever beneath ourselves”

Ifs Body Used Time Forget Forever Path Shapes Clothes Rivers Crosses Dare Abandon

Author:Fernando Pessoa

“The body, after all, older and wiser than soul, being first created, and, like a good horse, if given its way would go home by the best path and at the right pace.”

Ifs Way Firsts Soul Home Body Age Given Path Horse Old Age Pace Wiser Good Horse

Book:The diaries of Sylvia Townsend Warner

Source: The diaries of Sylvia Townsend Warner