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.
It is so much more difficult to live with oneâs body than with oneâs soul. Oneâs body is so much more exacting: what it wonât have, it wonât have, and nothing can make bitter into sweet.
ââD. 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 isnât just a fiction; itâs a part of our physical body, and our soul exists in space, and is inside us, like the teeth in our mouth. It canât be forever violated with impunity.
 ââBoris 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.
ââMarilyn Sewell
I had to face the facts; I was pear-shaped. I was a bit depressed because I hate pears. Especially their shape.
ââCharlotte BinghamÂ
Our body is precious. It is a vehicle for awakening. Treat it with care.
ââThe Buddha
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
ââHelen Keller
Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
ââAlbert 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.
ââHenry 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.
 ââHerakleitos
Measure your health by your sympathy with morning and spring.
âHenry David Thoreau Â
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