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“So death obscures your gentle form, So memory strives to make the darkness bright; And, in that heap of rocks, your body lies, Part of the island till the planet ends, My gentle comrade, beautiful and wise, Part of this crag this bitter surge offends, While I, who pass, a little obscure thing, War with this force, and breathe, and am its king.”

Littles War Ends Body Beautiful Form Lying Force Memories Darkness Wise Rocks Planets Kings Strive Breathe Your Body Bitter Gentle Islands Obscure Strife Comrade

Book:Letters to Margaret Bridges (1915-1919)

Source: Letters to Margaret Bridges (1915-1919)

“Wouldn't it be wonderful to have a wise and intuitive counselor available 24/7? You're in luck-you already have one. Your body! Our bodies carry ancient wisdom. We literally live within a temple of intuitive and instinctive wisdom. Sometimes we pay attention and access body wisdom; but unfortunately, the aphorism "Mrs. Smith lived a short distance from her body" is sadly true for many of us.”

Sometimes Body Pay Attention Wise Wonderful Luck Distance Ancient Available Access Your Body Pay Attention Temples Aphorism Intuitive Counselor Ancient Wisdom

Author:Sue Thoele

“There are men steady and wise whose body, words and mind are self-controlled. They are the men of supreme self-control.”

Men Mind Self Body Wise He Man Supreme Controlled Steady Self Control

Author:Publilius Syrus

“The wise who control their body, who control their tongue, the wise who control their mind, are indeed well controlled.”

Mind Wells Body Wise Tongue Controlled

Book:The Dhammapada

Source: The Dhammapada

“There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.”

Should Body Faith Worry Wise Waste Worried Ashamed Faith In God Bad Ass Christian Father Worry And Fear Spiritual Faith

Book:The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas

Source: The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas

“You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.”

Inspirational Mind Body Peace Freedom Wise Independent Chains Torture Protest Self Discipline Deep Thought Imprisonment Mind Body Independent Thought

Book:Inspiring Thoughts

Source: Inspiring Thoughts

“O lovely chance, what can I doTo give my gratefulness to you?You rise between myself and meWith a wise persistency;I would have broken body and soul,But by your grace, still I am whole.”

Giving Stills Soul Whole Body Chance Grace Wise Broken Lovely Gratefulness

Author:Sara Teasdale

“Lord Bacon has compared those who move in higher spheres to those heavenly bodies in the firmament, which have much admiration, but little rest. And it is not necessary to invest a wise man with power to convince him that it is a garment bedizened with gold, which dazzles the beholder by its splendor, but oppresses the wearer by its weight.”

Source: Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

“A poet's soul must contain the perfect shape of all things good, wise and just. His body must be spotless and without blemish, his life pure, his thoughts high, his studies intense.”

Soul Body Perfect Study Wise Poet Pure Shapes All Things Intense Good Wise

Book:Collected essays

Source: Collected essays