Best body & solitude Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“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

“The painter or draftsman ought to be solitary, in order that the well-being of the body not sap the vigour of the mind.”

Mind Wells Body Order Ought Solitude Painter Well Being Solitary Sap Draftsman

Author:Leonardo da Vinci

“Perhaps the profession of doing good may be full, but every body should be kind at least to himself. Take a course of good water and air, and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you. Some have strange, morbid fears as soon as they find themselves with Nature, even in the kindest and wildest of her solitudes, like very sick children afraid of their mother-as if God were dead and the devil were king.”

Source: STEEP TRAILS: California - Utah - Nevada - Washington - Oregon - The Grand Canyon: Adventure Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Nature Essays and Wilderness Studies from the author of The Yosemite, Our National Parks, A Thousand-mile Walk to the Gulf & Picturesque California

“Illustrious confessors of Jesus Christ, a Christian finds in prison the same joys as the prophets tasted in the desert. Call it not a dungeon, but a solitude. When the soul is in heaven, the body feels not the weight of fetters; it carries the whole man along with it.”