Action is the language of the body and should harmonize with the spirit within.
Our bodies are our gardens, to which our wills are gardeners.
With most people the heart grows old with the body.
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, not to worry about the future, or not to anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.
A healthy mind in a healthy body.
As the sun is the light of the day, so the soul is the light of the awakened body. As the moon is the light of the night, so is the soul the light of the sleeping body.
Strength and weakness of mind are mis-named; they are really only the good or happy arrangement of our bodily organs.
The human body is the best picture of the human soul.
Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it.
Conscience is the voice of the soul; the passions are the voice of the body.
Body am I, and soul'–so says the child. And why should one not speak like children?
What Nature is to the mind she is also to the body.
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.
Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
Pain of mind is worse than pain of body.
It is difficult to define love; all we can say is, that in the soul it is a desire to rule, in the mind it is a sympathy, and in the body it is a hidden and delicate wish to possess what we love—Plus many mysteries.
What grace is to the body good sense is to the mind.
It would seem that nature, which has so wisely ordered the organs of our body for our happiness, has also given us pride to spare us the mortification of knowing our imperfections.
True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body the two are ever united.
A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.
The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.
A home without books is a body without soul.
The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest. The repose of the night does not belong to us. It is not the possession of our being. Sleep opens within us an inn for phantoms. In the morning we must sweep out the shadows.
The human mind cannot be absolutely destroyed with the body, but there remains of it something which is eternal.
From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.
