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Though the body moves, the soul may stay behind.


Murasaki Shikibu

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KATE CHOPIN The mind speaks, though it does not have lips.
The heart moves, though it does not have feet. MATSHONA DHLIWAYO Whatever you may say, the body depends on the soul.
NIKOLAI GOGOL My mother shut all her family out of her life over the years, though we made several futile attempts...
LAURA SCHLESSINGER There is nothing the body suffers the soul may not profit by.
GEORGE MEREDITH The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.
STEPHEN KING Smartass Disciple: Master, what will happen to the men right after their death ?
Master of Stup...
TOBA BETA He makes everybody chase behind him. It really moves everybody up.
BRYAN PAVLISH Nourish the body, nourish the soul. Punish the body, punish the soul.
M.L. SHANAHAN The body power;The body never respect the personality wearing her ,for her sole mission in life is j...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The human body is a strange & unreligious being,for it thrives on variety.
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ANUJ SOMANY If my hand on yours trembles it's because bodies never lie.
MARTY RUBIN Hey! My body may be small, but my soul is large. It’s why I wear platforms. So I can reach the top...
LAINI TAYLOR The mind reels when you start to consider the people who chose to stay behind, ... We may never find...
BILL HEMMER Narrative art, the novel, from Murasaki to Proust, has produced great works of poetry.
EUGENIO MONTALE But freedom, liberty, is an attribute of the soul and it may exist even when the body is in bondage.
RALPH ADAMS CRAM Discomfort: the valley between the body and the soul. Comfort: the bridge between the body and the s...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH For of the soul the body form doth take,For soul is form, and doth the Body make.
EDMUND SPENSER For of the soul the body form doth take,
For soul is form, and doth the Body make.
EDMUND SPENSER Go, Soul, the body
SIR WALTER RALEIGH One of the great privileges of being a part of the Senate, it being the greatest deliberative body i...
BILL NELSON His work seems to confirm my old axiom: it is useless to try to keep the whole body alive.
ADOLFO BIOY CASARES According to scriptures at least I know the Bible states not to make any permanent marks on your bod...
DANIEL HOWELL Hey you the "Supreme Power Within Myself" uplift my soul that I make no more mistakes and patiently ...
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VICTOR HUGO If we ever put research into what the subconscious is we could probably come to the conclusion that ...
GARY F EVANS... If death is all about parting with body then immortality is about being dead when alive.
AKSHMALA SHARMA If death, said my father, reasoning with himself, is nothing but the separation of the soul from the...
LAURENCE STERNE I always heard 'whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger' going up. How foolish, in fact, what d...
JEREMY CALDWELL I always heard 'whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger' growing up. How foolish, in fact, what...
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KELLY JONES You're no better. Playing dress-up like you know right from wrong. Who made you the fucking hero? J.D. CUNEGAN The body apologizes to the soul for its errors, and the soul asks forgiveness for squatting in the b...
GREGORY MAGUIRE I'm not a body with a soul, I'm a soul that has a visible part called the body.
PAULO COELHO The body grows slowly and steadily but the soul grows by leaps and bounds. It may come to its full s...
L.M. MONTGOMERY The dogs may bark, but the caravan moves on
JOSEPH NEEDHAM Dualists hold that body and soul are separate entities and that the soul will continue beyond the ex...
MICHAEL SHERMER The finger of the atheists' own divinity, Reason, wrote on the wall the appalling judgments that the...
JOHN LOTHROP MOTLEY I have risen to a body not yet born, existing like a light around a body through which the body move...
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FATHER MARK MONTEBLLO A puny body weakens the soul.
PAUL CEZANNE Spring clean the body, Detox the Soul.
MELINDA OVERTURF Work thou for pleasure--paint or sing or carve The thing thou lovest, though the body starve-- ...
KENYON COX Body and soul, let's all go / transformed into arrows! / Piercing the air / body and soul, let's go ...
KO UN It’s just words. How can words be dangerous?”
“You have a lot to learn about the world, b...
CATHERINE RYAN HYDE Man has no Body distinct from his Soul; for that called Body is a portion of Soul discerned by the f...
WILLIAM BLAKE Everybody needs beauty...places to play in and pray in where nature may heal and cheer and give stre...
JOHN MUIR The Skin in not important, but the 'Soul', to fall in Love and reach the Heaven's Door.
SAURAV KALRA The soul has many motions, body one.
THEODORE ROETHKE Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR Age wrinkles the body; quitting wrinkles the soul.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR Just as the soul fills the body, so God fills the world. Just as the soul bears the body, so God end...
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO Thou seest how sloth wastes the sluggish body, as water is corrupted unless it moves.
OVID Error moves with quick feet and truthmust never be lagging behind.
ALEXANDER CRUMMELL The Bible says the body is a temple, so I guess it's desecrating the temple. Technically, it's a sin...
MARCUS FIZER In the struggle between the “needs” of the soul and the “wants” of the body, satisfy the sou...
CHINONYE J. CHIDOLUE Though my soul may set in darkness, It will rise in perfect light, I have loved the stars too fondly...
SARAH WILLIAMS fanaticism is the only way to put an end to the doubts that constantly trouble the human soul.
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NOAH-THE NOTEBOOK Nothing so bad you need to be cruel. Tough, yes. You’ll have to kill, yes. But there’s a differe...
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BRIAN BERG What men call the shadow of the body is not the shadow of the body, but is the body of the soul.
OSCAR WILDE Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul.
WAYNE DYER Brevity is the body and soul of wit.
JEAN PAUL Safeguard the health both of body and soul.
CLEOBULUS The brand is your soul, the product your body.
SAURABH UBOWEJA Though my soul may set in darkness, it will rise in perfect light;
I have loved the stars too ...
SARAH WILLIAMS Error moves with quick feet and truth must never be lagging behind.
ALEXANDER CRUMMELL When the tendencies (vruti) that were wandering around since time immemorial come within & enter...
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ALTON WILLIAMS As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.
HERMANN HESSE Salary is no object: I want only enough to keep body and soul apart.
DOROTHY PARKER The body of a sensualist is the coffin of a dead soul
CHRISTIAN NEVELL BOVEE Soul can only be reached with soul and only soul can grant you stay, otherwise it's wind dusting the...
MARIANA FULGER What does the body matter if the soul is dead?
FRANCINE RIVERS God bless the roots! Body and soul are one.
THEODORE ROETHKE God bless the roots! Body and soul are one
THEODORE ROETHKE If the promised final future is simply that immortal souls will have left behind their mortal bodies...
N.T. WRIGHT The king may rule the kingdom, but it's the queen who moves the board.
D.M. TIMNEY Error moves with quick feet and truth
must never be lagging behind.
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JOHN MUIR Habits are to the soul what the veins and arteries are to the blood, the courses in which it moves.
HORACE BUSHNELL Habits are to the soul what the veins and arteries are to the blood, the courses in which it moves
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