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It is so much more difficult to live with one's body than with one's soul. One's body is so much more exacting: what it won't have, it won't have, and nothing can make bitter into sweet.

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It is so much more difficult to live with one’s body than with one’s soul. One’s body is so much more exacting: what it won’t have, it won’t have, and nothing can make bitter into sweet.

––D. H. Lawrence

Your health is bound to be affected if, day after day, you say the opposite of what you feel, if you grovel before what you dislike and rejoice at what brings you nothing but misfortune. Our nervous system isn’t just a fiction; it’s a part of our physical body, and our soul exists in space, and is inside us, like the teeth in our mouth. It can’t be forever violated with impunity.

 ––Boris Pasternak

The body has its own way of knowing, a knowing that has little to do with logic, and much to do with truth; little to do with control, and much to do with acceptance; little to do with division and analysis, and much to do with union.

––Marilyn Sewell

I had to face the facts; I was pear-shaped. I was a bit depressed because I hate pears. Especially their shape.

––Charlotte Bingham 

Our body is precious. It is a vehicle for awakening. Treat it with care.

––The Buddha

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.

––Helen Keller

Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.

––Albert Schweitzer

The world is not to be put in order, the world is order incarnate. It is for us to put ourselves in unison with this order.

––Henry Miller

One must talk about everything according to its nature, how it comes to be and how it grows. Men have talked about the world without paying attention to the world or to their own minds, as if they were asleep or absent-minded.

 ––Herakleitos

Measure your health by your sympathy with morning and spring.

–Henry David Thoreau  

(Each week this column features quotations gleaned from the readings and experiences of our editors, reporters, readers, and friends. All are invited to submit quotations for inclusion here. They may be sent to Gleanings, c/o The Newtown Bee, 5 Church Hill Road, Newtown, CT 06470 or emailed to editor@thebee.com.)

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