During the contest for the 1960 Democratic presidential nomination, John F. Kennedy visited a mine in West Virginia. "Is it true you're the son of one of our wealthiest men?" asked one of the miners there. Kennedy admitted that this was true. "Is it true that you've never wanted for anything and had everything you wanted?" "I guess so," Kennedy replied. "Is it true you've never done a day's work with your hands all your life?" Kennedy nodded. "Well, let me tell you this," said the miner. "You haven't missed a thing. —Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I walk past a little gangbanger, I don't even flinch. But I see a white dude with a Wall Street Journal, I haul ass. . . . Cutting through the projects, you might just lose what you have on you that day, but I ain't never been mugged of my future. No thug ever ran up on me: "Give me your 401(k). . . . I want your college fund, your ira. I want it all. —Wanda Sykes More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
In Japan, the highest-paid executive earns only fifteen times what the average worker does. Here, ceos earn five hundred times more. That's supposed to motivate the American worker. To do what, kidnap his boss? —Unknown More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If rich, it is easy enough to conceal our wealth; but if poor, it is not quite so easy to conceal our poverty. . . . It is less difficult to hide a thousand guineas than one hole in our coat. —C.C. Colton More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
As long as there are some people who wish to believe . . . that they are too good to do their own work and clean up after themselves, then somebody else is going to have to do the work and the cleaning up. . . . If some people grow rich by making things to throw away, then many other people will have to empty the garbage cans and make the trip to the dump. —Wendell Berry More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
When you go to work, if your name is on the building, you're rich. If your name is on your desk, you're middle-class. If your name is on your shirt, you're poor. —Rich Hall More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A: I guess I need to qualify or modify that. The body is spirit, too. For me there is no materiality to apparent materiality. In our bodies, 3 billion cells a minute are dying and being reborn. So our bodies look solid, but they aren't. How many minutes have just gone by and how many cells have died and been reborn? We're like a fountain. A fountain of water looks solid, but you can put your fingers right through it. Our bodies look like things, but there's no thingness to them. We're forces of God. —Li-Young Lee More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Q: You have said that "the spirit is the body." What do you mean by that? —Unknown More about this quote Tags: spirit body Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We have these earthly bodies. We don't know what they want. Half the time, we pretend they are under our mental thumb, but that is the illusion of the healthy and protected. Of sedate lovers. . . . For the body has emotions it conceives and carries through without concern for anyone or anything else. —Louise Erdrich More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I know of no woman — virgin, mother, lesbian, married, celibate, whether she earns her keep as a housewife, a cocktail waitress, or a scanner of brain waves — for whom the body is not a fundamental problem: its clouded meanings, its fertility, its desire, its so-called frigidity, its bloody speech, its silences, its changes and mutilations, its rapes and ripenings. —Adrienne Rich More about this quote Tags: women self-image body problems Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It is discouraging to try to penetrate a mind like yours. You ought to get it out and dance on it. That would take some of the rigidity out of it. —Mark Twain More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Most psychologists treat the mind as disembodied, a phenomenon with little or no connection to the physical body. Conversely physicians treat the body with no regard to the mind or the emotions. But the body and mind are not separate, and we cannot treat one without the other. —Candace Pert More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Our society allows people to be absolutely neurotic and totally out of touch with their feelings and everyone else's feelings, and yet be very respectable. —Ntozake Shange More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There are, as one would expect, all sorts of reasons why we abandon our bodies, and why we now fear to reclaim them. . . . On a superficial level, we refuse to reclaim the body because we just don't think there's any reason to — it seems a big to-do about nothing. On a deeper level, we fear to reclaim the body because it houses, in a particularly vivid and living form, strong emotions and feelings which are socially taboo. And, ultimately, the body is avoided because it is the abode of death. —Ken Wilber More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Ever wonder what crime you committed that you are confined to a small enclosure above your sinuses, under permanent skull arrest? —Robert Brault More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email