Body

There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.

Has a woman who knew that she was well dressed ever caught a cold?

The abdomen is the reason why man does not easily take himself for a god.

You say 'I' and you are proud of this word. But greater than this- although you will not believe in it - is your body and its great intelligence, which does not say 'I' but performs 'I'.

The body is a big sagacity, a plurality with one sense, a war and a peace, a flock and a shepherd.

I consist of body and soul - in the worlds of a child. And why shouldn't we speak like children? But the enlightened, the knowledgeable would say: I am body through and through, nothing more; and the soul is just a word for something on the body.

Take care of your body with steadfast fidelity. The soul must see through these eyes alone, and if they are dim, the whole world is clouded.

After thirty, a body has a mind of its own.

Those move easiest who have learned to dance.

The purpose of education is to give to the body and to the soul all the beauty and all the perfection of which they are capable.

The more the pleasures of the body fade away, the greater to me is the pleasure and charm of conversation.

The desire for sex turns the penis into a disobedient thing with a mind of its own. Like an animal that will not listen ..it tries to take complete control.

The body is the tomb of the soul

Physical excellence does not of itself produce a good mind and character: on the other hand, excellence of mind and character will make the best of the physique it is given.

It's like this, I think: the excellence of a good body doesn't make the soul good, but the other way around: the excellence of a good soul makes the body as good as it can be.

You ought not to attempt to cure the eyes without the head, or the head without the eyes, so neither ought you to attempt to cure the body without the soul.

It is something living and changing, and may become diseased as our bodies do.

The brain is like a muscle. When we think well, we feel good.

The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around.

Wisdom is to the soul what health is to the body.

Probably there is nothing in human nature more resonant with charges than the flow of energy between two biologically alike bodies, one of which has lain in amniotic bliss inside the other, one of which has labored to give birth to the other. The materials are here for the deepest mutuality and the most painful estrangement.

’Tis the mind that makes the body rich.

Jazz is the music of the body.

In old age our bodies are worn-out instruments, on which the soul tries in vain to play the melodies of youth. But because the instrument has lost its strings, or is out of tune, it does not follow that the musician has lost his skill.