What I mean by photographing as a participant rather than observer is that I'm not only involved directly with some of the activities that I photograph, such as mountain climbing, but even when I'm not I have the philosophy that my mind and body are part of the natural world.
Galen Rowell

To have a body is to suffer.
Bodhidharma

In my conscience I believe the baggage loves me, for she never speaks well of me herself, nor suffers any body else to rail at me.
William Congreve

Whoever realizes that the six senses aren't real, that the five aggregates are fictions, that no such things can be located anywhere in the body, understands the language of Buddhas.
Bodhidharma

Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.
Bodhidharma

The Buddha is your real body, your original mind.
Bodhidharma

The Soul is the voice of the body's interests.
George Santayana

The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation.
George Santayana

Nothing can so pierce the soul as the uttermost sigh of the body.
George Santayana

It's never been an issue for me - I don't want to go on a diet, I don't want to eat a Caesar salad with no dressing, why would I do that? I ain't got time for this, just be happy and don't be stupid. If I've got a boyfriend and he loves my body then I'm not worried.
Adele

My body is a vehicle for the mechanics of my sport.
Gabrielle Reece

Here's what I tell anybody and this is what I believe. The greatest gift we have is the gift of life. We understand that. That comes from our Creator. We're given a body. Now you may not like it, but you can maximize that body the best it can be maximized.
Mike Ditka

It's your body and you're going to have a much better life, you are going to have a quality life, better lifestyle, you're going to be healthier, you're going to be happier, you're going to enjoy the people around you and they're going to enjoy you more.
Mike Ditka

You see people who have been very heavy in their life who have taken that body, trimmed it down, firmed it up through discipline, exercise and being able to say no. Eating properly, that all comes into it.
Mike Ditka

Leanness of body and soul may go together.
John Owen

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Men speak of natural rights, but I challenge any one to show where in nature any rights existed or were recognized until there was established for their declaration and protection a duly promulgated body of corresponding laws.
Calvin Coolidge

When people see an actor speak, they think they know him or her, whereas I'm just a face or a body to them.
Kate Moss

From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.
Edvard Munch

The universal medicine for the Soul is the Supreme Reason and Absolute Justice; for the mind, mathematical and practical Truth; for the body, the Quintessence, a combination of light and gold.
Albert Pike