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Apostle Paul1 quote
Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? — Apostle Paul · 55Cicero1 quote
There are more disorders of the mind than of the body, and they are of a more dangerous nature. — Cicero · 45 BCHenri Matisse1 quote
What interests me most is neither still life nor landscape, but the human figure. It is through it that I best succeed in expressing the almost religious feeling I have towards life. — Henri Matisse · 1908John Beckwith1 quote
You know how they say we only use 10 percent of our brains? I think we only use 10 percent of our hearts. — John Beckwith · 2005Leo Tolstoy1 quote
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 · 1869Ludwig Wittgenstein1 quote
The human body is the best picture of the human soul. — Ludwig Wittgenstein · 1953Plautus1 quote
To blow and swallow at the same moment is not easy. — Plautus · 184 BCVladimir Nabokov1 quote
Although we read with our minds, the seat of artistic delight is between the shoulder blades. That little shiver behind is quite certainly the highest form of emotion that humanity has attained when evolving pure art and pure science. Let us worship the spine and its tingle. — Vladimir NabokovWalt Whitman1 quote
If anything is sacred the human body is sacred. — Walt Whitman · 1855