All Quotes By Tag: Body
“Your body captured my attention, but it was your soul that held my gaze.”
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“In the vessel of your body, you yourself are the world tree, deep roots in the Earth and a crown of stars. Your essence bridges dimensions.”
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“Your body would not get sick if you held no thought of resentment. It is neither good nor bad of itself. If we hold anything against anyone, we will suffer ourselves.”
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“She was aware that in love even the most passionate idealism will not rid the body’s surface of its terrible, basic importance.”
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“we are threatened with suffering from three directions: from our body, which is doomed to decay…, from the external world which may rage against us with overwhelming and merciless force of destruction, and finally from our relations with other men… This last source is perhaps more painful to use than any other. (p77)”
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“Before you worry about the beauty of your body, worry about the health of your body.”
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“A slip of the foot may injure your body, but a slip of the tongue will injure your bond.”
“Brilliance of the brain must be admired more than beauty of the body.”
“The salt is to the food, what soul is to the body.”
“Some people when they see cheese, chocolate or cake they don’t think of calories.”
“The spirit of Christ dwells in a holy body.”
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“Your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit.”
“You own your body. You own your body. You own your body. Your center and your edges are yours and yours alone. In this world – this world of rape culture of ingrained misogyny and violence done against girls and women – you will encounter and absorb messages your entire life that place you on trial for the crime of existing as female in this world. That will question your right to wear or speak or move through the world in the way that you do. That will seek to harm you in ways large and small. As a woman, you will hold stories that sometimes feel too painful to hold. As your mother, that brings me to my knees. I grant you the strength to know that this too, you will survive. I promise you I will protect you with every ounce of life in my body. And where I cannot protect you from this world, I will love you inside of it – fierce and holy and precious beyond all knowing.”
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“The main recipients of injustice in any society are the afflicted the distressed and the troubled one, both in soul and in body.”
“Our bodies were printed as blank pages to be filled with the ink of our hearts”