Reading is to the mind, what exercise is to the body. As by the one, health is preserved, strengthened, and invigorated: by the other, virtue (which is the health of the mind) is kept alive, cherished, and confirmed.
As in this body, there are for the embodied one childhood, youth, old age, even so is there the taking on of another body.
As in this body, there are for the embodied one childhood, youth, old age, even so is there the taking on of another body.
To be no part of any body, is to be nothing.
No matter what accomplishments you make, somebody helped you.
It's discouraging to make a mistake, but it's humiliating when you find out you're so unimportant that nobody noticed it.
We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody.
It isn't enough for your heart to break because everybody's heart is broken now.
Nobody's interested in sweetness and light.
The body of all true religion consists, to be sure, in obedience to the will of the Sovereign of the world, in a confidence in His declarations, and in imitation of His perfections.
If "everybody knows" such-and-such, then it ain't so, by at least ten thousand to one.
Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.
Do you know how to digest your food? Do you know how to fill your lungs with air? Do you know how to establish, regulate and direct the metabolism of your bodyâthe assimilation of foodstuff so that it builds muscles, bones and flesh? No, you don't know how consciously, but there is a wisdom within you that does know.
God does not require you to follow His leadings on blind trust. Behold the evidence of an invisible intelligence pervading everything, even your own mind and body.
to be nobody-but-myself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make me everybody else means, to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting.
Mental pleasure are never cloy; unlike those of the body, they are increased by repetition, approved by reflection, and strengthened by enjoyment.
Thy deathbed is no lesser than thy land, Wherein thou liest in reputation sick; And thou, too careless patient as thou art, Committ'st thy anointed body to the cure Of those physicians that first wounded thee.
When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you.
That old law about "an eye for an eye" leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing.
Anybody can win unless there happens to be a second entry.
True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen.
Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own.
Everybody says it, and what everybody says must be true.
A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.