Quotes about Body

As it is with the love of the body, so with the friendship of the mind, the full is only reached by admittance to the most retired places.

The trouble with censors is that they worry if a girl has cleavage. They ought to worry if she hasn't any

In the beginning, I was a painter, but the moment I stood in front of the public and expressed my ideas using my body as the object and subject of the work, immediately it was clear that this is my best medium. I struggled with acceptance; my early career was hell. But it took me all these years to create a foundation so that performance would become accepted in the same way as photography and video. You have to believe that you're right, even if everybody believes you are wrong.

As I give thought to the matter, I find four causes for the apparent misery of old age; first it withdraws us from active accomplishments; second, it renders the body less powerful; third, it deprives us of almost all forms of enjoyment; fourth, it

None of us are entirely well, and none of us are irrecoverably sick.

Movement never lies. It is a barometer telling the state of the soul's weather to all who can read it.

The body is a sacred garment.

Nothing is more revealing than movement. The body says what words cannot.

Movement never lies. It is a barometer telling the state of the soul's weather to all who can read it.

Heavy thoughts bring on physical maladies; when the soul is oppressed so is the body.

Now, you can stand it when your body emits a stench before you realize it, or when it festers and becomes pussy and completely pollutes your skin. You make allowances for all this. In fact, this only increases your concern and love for your body; you wait on it and wash it, and you endure and help in every way you can. Why not do the same with the spouse whom God has given you, who is an even greater treasure and whom you have even more reason to love?

So blind are we: with our bodily sickness and need we run to God; with the soul's sickness we run from Him, and are unwilling to come back before we are well, exactly as if there could be one God who could help the body, and another God who could help the soul; or as if we would help ourselves in spiritual need, although it really is greater than the bodily need. Such plan and counsel is of the devil.