Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing - peace is the measure.

I live in company with a body, a silent companion, exacting and eternal.

—Eugene Delacroix

But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable.

—E. M. Forster

Safeguard the health both of body and soul.

—Cleobulus

Be sure that it is not you that is mortal, but only your body. For that man whom your outward form reveals is not yourself; the spirit is the true self, not that physical figure which and be pointed out by your finger.

—Cicero

Oh, darling, let your body in, let it tie you in, in comfort.

—Anne Sexton