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“I'm not ready to be a woman yet. I'd like it if my body were more boyish. Maybe I'll like my curves when I'm older but right now they kind of make me squirm.”

Ifs Kind Body Ready Right Now Curves Not Ready Boyish

Author:Vanessa Marcil

“I want my people to stay with me here. All the dead men will come to life again. Their spirits will come to their bodies again. We must wait here in the homes of our fathers and be ready to meet them in the bosom of our mother.”

“How many mysteries have you seen in your lifetime? How many nets pulled full over the boat's side, each silver body ready or not falling into submission? How many roses in early summer uncurling above the pale sands then falling back in unfathomable willingness? And what can you say? Glory to the rose and the leaf, to the seed, to the silver fish. Glory to time and the wild fields, and to joy. And to grief's shock and torpor, its near swoon.”

Body Joy Fall Sides Grief Mystery Fields Ready Summer Glory Rose Lifetime Fishes Seeds Boat Shock Sand Silver Willingness Pale Leafs Submission Unfathomable

Book:Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver

Source: Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver

“In the Seventies, women runners, developing amenorrhea and calcium-related shin splints, were the first to realize that nature is hovering over us, ready to shut down our systems if our fetus-feeding fat reserve drops below a certain percentage of body weight. In other words, in nature's eyes we are nothing but milk sacs and fat deposits.”

Ifs Firsts Body Eye Certain Realizing Ready Weight Fats Developing Related Milk Reserves Runners Feeding Seventies Percentages Deposits Fetus Hovering Calcium Body Weight

Book:Vamps & Tramps: New Essays

Source: Vamps & Tramps: New Essays

“The body has a wisdom of its own. However, slowly and circuitously that wisdom manifests, once it is experienced it is a foundation, a basis of knowing that gives confidence to the ego. To reach its wisdom requires absolute concentration: dropping the mind into the body, breathing into whatever is ready to be released, and allowing the process of expression until the negative dammed up energy is out, making room for the positive energy, genuine Light, to flood in.”

Giving Mind Body Light Energy Process Rooms Knowing Ready Expression Ego Negative Bases Absolutes Foundation Genuine Breathing Concentration Allowing Flood Dropping Positive Energy

Author:Marion Woodman

“A nap is not to be confused with sleeping. We sleep to recharge our bodies. We nap to care for our souls. When we nap, we are resting our eyes while our imaginations soar. Getting ready for the next round. Sorting, sifting, separating the profound from the profane, the possible from the improbable. Rehearsing our acceptance speech for the Nobel Prize, our surprise on receiving the MacArthur genius award. This requires a prone position. If we're lucky, we might drift off, but we won't drift far. Just far enough to ransom our creativity from chaos.”

“Happy are those lovers who, when their senses require rest, can fall back upon the intellectual enjoyments afforded by the mind! Sweet sleep then comes, and lasts until the body has recovered its general harmony. On awaking, the senses are again active and always ready to resume their action.”

Mind Body Action Lasts Fall Passion Sleep Ready Sweet Lovers Intellectual Harmony Active Senses Enjoyment Resumes Fall Back Sweet Sleep

Book:The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt Volume 2: To Paris and Prison

Source: The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt Volume 2: To Paris and Prison

“Do you feel that you have lost your way in life? Then God Himself will show you your way. Are you utterly helpless, worn out, body and soul? Then God's eternal love is ready and willing to help you up, and revive you. Are you wearied with doubts and terrors? Then God's eternal light is ready to show you your way; God's eternal peace ready to give you peace. Do you feel yourself full of sins and faults? Then take heart; for God's unchangeable will is, to take away those sins, and purge you from those faults.”

Source: The Good News of God: Sermons