Pastoral Resources

Perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add but when there is no longer anything to take away, when a body has been stripped down to its nakedness.

Being a former dancer, classical dancer, it informed me as a human being just in terms of the grace I guess. Ballet is a very graceful form of art. You also become very aware of your body and your mind and your body is working in conjunction. That kind of helps you in acting as well. It's not only using your mind, it's like making your mind communicate this character into your body so that you can bring it to life and physicalize it.

We employ the mind to rule, the body to serve.

Music has just as much to do with movement and body as it does soul and intellect.

The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the spell of the moment; the eye of the body is not always that of the soul.

The submission of her body without love or desire is degrading to the woman's finer sensibility, all the marriage certificates on earth to the contrary notwithstanding.

No woman can call herself free who does not own and control her body. No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mother.

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

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

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

Before our kids start coming home from Iraq in body bags and women and children start dying in Baghdad, I need to know, what did Iraq do to us?

I think sometimes what happens is that all of this feeling out of control manifests itself in trying to control your body; whether it's an eating disorder or talking about getting your nose fixed, as if that's going to be the solution to all the pressure.

Students of American history will recall that the important place where work gets done in the legislative body, almost without exception, is in the committees, more so than on the floor although sometimes more attention is paid to the floor.

The number of flavors is infinite, for every soluble body has a peculiar flavor, like none other.

You may see the emergence of a new political party from the body of the trade union movement which represents a very clear-cut socialist alternative policy and which gives expression to the views of the trade union movement in parliament.

Never fit a dress to the body but train the body to fit the dress.

At present, I am mainly observing the physical motion of mountains, water, trees and flowers. One is everywhere reminded of similar movements in the human body, of similar impulses of joy and suffering in plants.

Of all the possessions of this life fame is the noblest; when the body has sunk into the dust the great name still lives.

The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism, a pensioner, as it were, who dwells with the body.

Every music - except dance music, which is for dancing, I suppose - is for the spirit of the human being, and not for the body.