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“When the heart is at ease, the body is healthy”
Chinese Proverbs
“The body sins once, and has done with its sin, for action is a mode of purification. Nothing remains then but the recollection of a pleasure, or the luxury of a regret.”
Oscar Wilde
“No woman can call herself free who does not own and control her body. No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mother.”
Margaret Sanger
“If anything is sacred, the human body is sacred”
Walt Whitman
“One always overcompensates for disabilities. I'm thinking of having my entire body surgically removed.”
Douglas Adams
“The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak”
Bible
“Every man is the builder of a temple, called his body, to the god he worships, after a style purely his own, nor can he get off by hammering marble instead. We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bones.”
Henry David Thoreau
“A mother had a slender, small body, but a large heart - a heart so large that everybody's grief and everybody's joy found welcome in it, and hospitable accommodation.”
Mark Twain
“A strong body makes the mind strong”
Thomas Jefferson
“It takes more than just a good looking body. You've got to have the heart and soul to go with it.”
Epictetus
