Body

(40 votes)   The human body is not a thing or substance, given, but a continuous creation. The human body is an energy system which is never a complete structure; never static; is in perpetual inner self-construction and self-destruction; we destroy in order to make it new.

Norman O. Brown
1913-, American Philosopher

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(253 votes)   What was my body to me? A kind of flunkey in my service. Let but my anger wax hot, my love grow exalted, my hatred collect in me, and that boasted solidarity between me and my body was gone.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery
1900-1944, French Aviator, Writer

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(176 votes)   The basic Female body comes with the following accessories: garter belt, panty-girdle, crinoline, camisole, bustle, brassiere, stomacher, chemise, virgin zone, spike heels, nose ring, veil, kid gloves, fishnet stockings, fichu, bandeau, Merry Widow, weepers, chokers, barrettes, bangles, beads, lorgnette, feather boa, basic black, compact, Lycra stretch one-piece with modesty panel, designer peignoir, flannel nightie, lace teddy, bed, head.

Margaret Atwood
1939-, Canadian Novelist, Poet, Critic

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(125 votes)   Who has not felt the beauty of a woman's arm? The unspeakable suggestions of tenderness that lie in the dimpled elbow, and all the varied gently-lessening curves, down to the delicate wrist, with its tiniest, almost imperceptible nicks in the firm softness.

George Eliot
1819-1880, British Novelist

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(118 votes)   Addiction, obesity, starvation (anorexia nervosa) are political problems, not psychiatric: each condenses and expresses a contest between the individual and some other person or persons in his environment over the control of the individual's body.

Thomas Szasz
1920-, American Psychiatrist

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(118 votes)   Man is a mind betrayed, not served, by his organs.

Edmond and Jules De Goncourt
1822-1896, French Writers

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(114 votes)   Let me look at the foulness and ugliness of my body. Let me see myself as an ulcerous sore running with every horrible and disgusting poison.

St. Ignatius Loyola
1495-1556, Spanish Theologian, Founder of the Jesuits

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(112 votes)   The only bodily organ which is really regarded as inferior is the atrophied penis, a girl's clitoris.

Sigmund Freud
1856-1939, Austrian Physician - Founder of Psychoanalysis

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(104 votes)   The body is mortal, but the person dwelling in the body is immortal and immeasurable.

Bhagavad Gita
c. BC 400-, Sanskrit Poem Incorporated Into the Mahabharata

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(96 votes)   Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions and intelligence are beside that great elemental point.

Phyllis Mcginley
1905-1978, American Poet, Author

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(94 votes)   In order to live a fully human life we require not only control of our bodies (though control is a prerequisite); we must touch the unity and resonance of our physicality, our bond with the natural order, the corporeal grounds of our intelligence.

Adrienne Rich
1929-, American Poet

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(93 votes)   When human beings have been fascinated by the contemplation of their own hearts, the more intricate biological pattern of the female has become a model for the artist, the mystic, and the saint. When mankind turns instead to what can be done, altered, built, invented, in the outer world, all natural properties of men, animals, or metals become handicaps to be altered rather than clues to be followed.

Margaret Mead
1901-1978, American Anthropologist

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(87 votes)   I live in company with a body, a silent companion, exacting and eternal. He it is who notes that individuality which is the seal of the weakness of our race. My soul has wings, but the brutal jailer is strict.

EugFne Delacroix
1798-1863, French Artist

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(83 votes)   He had not an ounce of superfluous flesh on his bones, and leanness goes a great way towards gentility.

Elizabeth Gaskell
1810-1865, British Novelist

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(78 votes)   Hide your body in the Big Dipper.

Zen Saying

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