To strengthen the mind you must harden the muscles.
—Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
In forming a bridge between body and mind, dreams may be used as a springboard from which man can leap to new realms of experience lying outside his normal state of consciousness and enlarge his vision not only of himself, but also of the universe in which he lives.
—Ann Faraday
You know that there's a whole underground system that you call "dreams," having nothing better to call them, and that this system is not like roads or tunnels but more like a live body network, all coiling and stretching, unpredictable but finally familiar—where you are now, where you've always been.
—Alice Munro
Flesh goes on pleasuring us, and humiliating us, right to the end.
—Mignon McLaughlin
The greatest mistake in the treatment of diseases is that there are physicians for the body and physicians for the soul, although the two cannot be separated.
—Plato
Synchronizing mind and body is not a concept or a random technique someone thought up for self-improvement. Rather, it is a basic principle of how to be a human being.
—Chögyam Trungpa
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
—Sir Richard Steele
The Soul is the voice of the body's interests.
—George Santayana
I rarely draw what I see. I draw what I feel in my body.
—Barbara Hepworth
The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around.
—Thomas A. Edison
The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular one and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
—Iris Murdoch
All we actually have is our body and its muscles that allow us to be under our own power.
—Allegra Kent
Oh, darling, let your body in, let it tie you in, in comfort.
—Anne Sexton
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
Safeguard the health both of body and soul.
—Cleobulus