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. It will do more than if you paralyze it by encumbering it with remedies.

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About Leo Tolstoy

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Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (; Russian: Лев Николаевич Толстой, IPA: [ˈlʲef nʲɪkɐˈla(j)ɪvʲɪtɕ tɐlˈstoj] ; 9 September [O.S. 28 August] 1828 – 20 November [O.S. 7 November] 1910), usually referred to in English as Leo Tolstoy, was a Russian writer. He is regarded as one of the greatest and most influential...

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Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.

How important the concept of God is, and how instead of valuing what has been given us, we with light hearts spurn it because of absurdities that have been attached to it.

If there existed no external means for dimming their consciences, one-half of the men would at once shoot themselves, because to live contrary to one's reason is a most intolerable state, and all men of our time are in such a state.

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It is easier to produce ten volumes of philosophical writings than to put one principle into practice.

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He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began.

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The… patient should be made to understand that he or she must take charge of his own life. Don't take your body to the doctor as if he were a repair shop.

—Quentin Regestein

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The tooth fairy teaches children that they can sell body parts for money.

—David Richerby

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Our bodies communicate to us clearly and specifically, if we are willing to listen to them.

—Shakti Gawain

I am convinced that life in a physical body is meant to be an ecstatic experience.

—Shakti Gawain

Choose rather to be strong of soul than strong of body.

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