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“A feeble body makes a feeble mind.” Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile, or On Education
“if the body is not a thing, it is a situation: it is our grasp on the world and the outline for our projects.” Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex
“Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul.” Mahatma Gandhi, The Story of my Experiments with Truth
“The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries in itself the causes of its destruction.” Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract
“Our purses shall be proud, our garments poor; for 'tis the mind that makes the body rich; and as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds, so honour peereth in the meanest habit.” William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew
“Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.” Plato, The Republic
“whatever happens to your body, your soul will survive, untouched” J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
“Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself, it will do more than if you paralyze it by encumbering it with remedies.” Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
“It also meant that whenever a body is not acted on by any force, it will keep on moving in a straight line at the same speed.” Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time
“Bond guessed that hair covered most of his squat body. Naked, Bond supposed, he would be an obscene object.” Ian Fleming, Casino Royale
“To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in one’s self.” Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex
“Do I have to be reborn in this same body?” George R. R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons
“Medicine is the restoration of discordant elements; sickness is the discord of the elements infused into the living body.” Leonardo da Vinci, The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci
“The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.” Carl Sagan, Cosmos
“Around 1995, after almost two decades of yo-yoing, I finally realized that being grateful for my body, whatever shape it was in, was the key to giving more love to myself.” Oprah Winfrey, What I Know For Sure
“When you have a well-developed body and you're confident, you see people bending your way, wanting to be on your side, wanting to do things for you.” Arnold Schwarzenegger, Arnold: The Education of a Bodybuilder
“She was incomprehensible, for, in her, soul and spirit were one—the beauty of her body was the essence of her soul.” F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned
“To know intense joy without a strong bodily frame, one must have an enthusiastic soul.” George Eliot, Middlemarch
“And all the while one spirit uttered this, The other one did weep so, that, for pity, I swooned away as if I had been dying, And fell, even as a dead body falls.” Dante Alighieri, Divine Comedy
“He said, in this one part, that a woman's body is like a violin and all, and that it takes a terrific musician to play it right.” J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
“Evil is the vulgar lover who loves the body rather than the soul” Plato, Symposium
“Our bodies are gardens, to the which our wills are gardeners;” William Shakespeare, Othello
“For what is the Heart, but a Spring; and the Nerves, but so many Strings; and the Joynts, but so many Wheeles, giving motion to the whole Body, such as was intended by the Artificer?” Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
“The more miles you ski, the better a skier you become; the more reps you do, the better your body.” Arnold Schwarzenegger, Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story
“The length of a man's outspread arms is equal to his height.” Leonardo da Vinci, The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci
“Oh, well physicked, said the monk; a hundred devils leap into my body, if there be not more old drunkards than old physicians!” François Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel
“We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bones.” Henry David Thoreau, Walden
“At twelve I looked like a girl of seventeen. My body was developed and shapely.” Marilyn Monroe, My Story
“Why are our bodies soft and weak and smooth, unapt to toil and trouble in the world, but that our soft conditions and our hearts should well agree with our external parts?” William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew
“like the eagle, his own flesh as well as all space was still a cage.” William Faulkner, Light in August
“The soul aids the body, and at certain moments, raises it. It is the only bird which bears up its own cage.” Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
“I am not a collection of members which we call the human body: I am not a subtle air distributed through these members, I am not a wind, a fire, a vapour, a breath, nor anything at all which I can imagine or conceive; because I have assumed that...” René Descartes, Meditations on First Philosophy
“You can kill the body, Mr. Hands, but not the spirit;” Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island
“The power which a man's imagination has over his body to heal it or make it sick is a force which none of us is born without.” Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World

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