I’m not a body with a soul, I’m a soul that has a visible part called the body.
I possess my life and my body, like other things, only in so far as my will is in them.
Great bodies of people are never responsible for what they do.
For what Harley Street specialist has time to understand the body, let alone the mind or both in combination, when he is a slave to thirteen thousand a year?
Every man casts a shadow; not his body only, but his imperfectly mingled spirit. This is his grief. Let him turn which way he will, it falls opposite to the sun; short at noon, long at eve. Did you never see it?
Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever the attitude of the body may be, the soul is on its knees.
Behind thy thoughts and feelings, my brother, there is a mighty lord, an unknown sage – it is called Self; it dwelleth in thy body, it is thy body.
As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.
Animals are in possession of themselves; their soul is in possession of their body. But they have no right to their life, because they do not will it.
And if your body wants to live, it’s no good your brain dishing out the other stuff.
A woman watches her body uneasily, as though it were an unreliable ally in the battle for love.
A man always judges himself by the balance he can strike between the needs of his body and the demands of his mind.
