Quotes of: Body-image Keyword

More than anything, there are more images in evil. Evil is based far more on the visual, whereas good has no good images at all.

Lars von Trier

I've never been able to control my public image.

Erica Jong

The person who has a highly evolved will they think, they build an image and they focus on that image.” ― Bob Proctor

Bob Proctor

The person we believe ourselves to be will always act in a manner consistent with our self-image.

Brian Tracy

In movies, images cost - if you want a big image, it takes more money.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

Carolyn Burnham: My company sells an image. It's part of my job to live that image.

American Beauty

An image needs a living object, and a copy can only be formed from a model. Either man models himself on the god of his own invention, or the true and living God moulds the human form in his image. There must be a complete transformation, a 'metamorp...

The Cost of Discipleship

The test of faith is whether I can make space for difference. Can I recognize God's image in someone who is not in my image, who language, faith, ideal, are different from mine? If I cannot, then I have made God in my image instead of allowing him to...

The Dignity of Difference: How to Avoid the Clash of Civilizations

Have you ever wanted something so desperately that you imagine it, day in and day out, until you have created an image of perfection that becomes the 'real thing'? Suddenly, all you have to live for is the image in your head that may not be real to a...

Shattered Illusions

The Catholic novelist in the South will see many distorted images of Christ, but he will certainly feel that a distorted image of Christ is better than no image at all. I think he will feel a good deal more kinship with backwoods prophets and shoutin...

Flannery O'Connor

Hide your body in the Big Dipper.

Zen

Then the soul, freed from vice, purged by studies of true philosophy, versed in spiritual life, and practised in matters of the intellect, devoted to the contemplation of her own substance, as if awakened from deepest sleep, opens those eyes which al...

The Book of the Courtier

Cocoa-buttered girls were stretched out on the public beach in apparently random alignments, but maybe if a weather satellite zoomed in on one of those bodies and then zoomed back out, the photos would show the curving beach itself was another woman,...

American Salvage

When the rich give a party and the meal is finished, a man carries round amongst the guests a wooden image of a corpse in a coffin, carved and painted to look as much like the real thing as possible, and anything from 18 inches to 3 foot long; he sho...

The Histories

The point is that no matter what you choose to do with your body when you die, it won't, ultimately, be very appealing. If you are inclined to donate yourself to science, you should not let images of dissection or dismemberment put you off. They are ...

Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

This, I believe, is the appropriate image of human intercourse -- appropriate because it recognizes the qualities, the diversities, and the proper relationships of human utterances. As civilized human beings, we are the inheritors, neither of an inqu...

Rationalism in Politics and Other Essays

Suddenly the images in the center of the room became more than images. They solidified.

The Case of the Displaced Detective: The Arrival

Whatever crimes this man had committed, they weren't as egregious as his inflated self-image.

Stolen Petals

Our self-image and our habits tend to go together. Change one and you will automatically change the othe

Maxwell Maltz

As bad as it might be to destroy a creature made in God's image, it might be very much worse to be creating them after images of one's own.

Leon Kass

Be in the habit of experimenting with your clothing so that you don't get stuck for life with a self-image developed over the course of high school.

Marilyn vos Savant