Quotes of: Body-image Keyword

Cinema is a mixed form. L'Avventura has characters, it has social context, and these things are not trivial. Its plot is the disappearance of a disappearance. Possibly the most frightening plot imaginable. Forgetting the dead, whom all of history tel...

The Sadness of Antonioni

Shakespeare said that art is a mirror held up to nature. And that’s what it is. The nature is your nature, and all of these wonderful poetic images of mythology are referring to something in you. When your mind is trapped by the image out there so ...

The Power of Myth

What men call the shadow of the body is not the shadow of the body, but is the body of the soul.

A House of Pomegranates

I think the best way to get over your body issues is to just flaunt your body at every opportunity.

Margaret Cho

At the resurrection, there will be the return of spirits to their bodies, the revivification of the bodies, and the remaking of the bodies.

Said Nursi

It's fun to change your body and find new things that your body does because of the weight.

Nick Nolte

Your body is not who you are. The mind and spirit transcend the body.

Christopher Reeve

You possess other people's...bodies." He accepted that statement with a nod. "Do you want to possess my body?" "I want to do a lot of things to your body, but that's not one of them.

Hush, Hush

I try to eat vegetarian, though I'm not very good at it, and it's a work in progress. But we basically are what we eat. Eat fat, and there's fat in your body. Eat protein, and there's protein in your body. Eat magic, and there's magic in your body.

Greg van Eekhout

It is not her body that he wants but it is only through her body that he can take possession of another human being, so he must labor upon her body, he must enter her body, to make his claim.

Joyce Carol Oates

Your soul to God, your body to dust, your property to your relatives, because thus it has been found written.

Maltese

Your body actually reminds you about your age and your injuries - the body has a stronger memory than your mind.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

Your body begins to change when it burns and shakes... so when an exercise is challenging, I always think 'feel your body changing.'

Stacy Keibler

I don't think God cares what you put in your body or on your body.

Tammy Faye Bakker

the body is wiser than its inhabitants. the body is the soul. the body is god’s messenger.

Erica Jong

When spirituality becomes spiritualization, life in the body becomes carnality. When ministers and priests live their ministry mostly in their heads and relate to the Gospel as a set of valuable ideas to be announced, the body quickly takes revenge b...

In the Name of Jesus: Reflections on Christian Leadership

[O]ur own bodies are changing every second. Yet we take the body to be our Self; and, speaking in terms of it, we say, “I am hungry” or “I am lame”; “I am black” or “I am white.” These are all just the conditions of the body. We touch...

The Yoga Sutras

We have to get over this notion, which many of us are taught early, that your soul is in your body. Because if your soul is in your body, it doesn't grow very much–your body is obviously limited in size. But if your soul's not in your body, but you...

Occupy Spirituality: A Radical Vision for a New Generation

As I am still on duty at this moment, is there anything else I can do for you?” he continues. Images of him kissing me, disrobing me and fondling my entire body fill my mind… I push them away, although I know my face has coloured at the thought. ...

Erotic Fantasies

The self-esteem of western women is founded on physical being (body mass index, youth, beauty). This creates a tricky emphasis on image, but the internalized locus of self-worth saves lives. Western men are very different. In externalizing the source...

The Eclipse: A Memoir of Suicide

Getting ink felt right, like it would help her put her life in order, to move forwards. It was her body, despite the things that'd been done to it, and she wanted to claim it, to own it, to prove that to herself. She knew it wasn't magic, but the ide...

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