Jonathan Swift on body
Jonathan Swift91 quotes“The various opinions of philosophers have scattered through the world as many plagues of the mind as Pandora’s box did those of the body; only with this difference, that they have not left hope at the bottom.”
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No wise man ever wished to be younger.
Jonathan SwiftJonathan Swift The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.
Jonathan SwiftJonathan Swift An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before.
Jonathan SwiftJonathan Swift May you live all the days of your life.
Jonathan SwiftJonathan Swift The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
Jonathan SwiftJonathan Swift It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind.
Jonathan SwiftJonathan Swift He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
Jonathan SwiftJonathan Swift It is computed that eleven thousand persons have at several times suffered death rather than submit to break their eggs at the smaller end.
Jonathan SwiftJonathan Swift Physicians ought not to give their judgment of religion, for the same reason that butchers are not admitted to be jurors upon life and death.
Jonathan SwiftJonathan Swift There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.
Jonathan SwiftJonathan Swift The best Maxim I know in this life is, to drink your Coffee when you can, and when you cannot, to be easy without it.
Jonathan SwiftJonathan Swift Vision is the Art of seeing Things invisible.
Jonathan SwiftJonathan Swift There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say.
Jonathan SwiftJonathan Swift Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.
Jonathan SwiftJonathan Swift We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Jonathan SwiftJonathan Swift The common fluency of speech in many men, and most women, is owing to a scarcity of matter and a scarcity of words; for whosoever is a master of language, and hath a mind full of ideas, will be apt, in speaking, to hesitate upon the choice of both.
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If you are powerfully embracing your physical body and your sexuality, you are living fully in your humanness and that is as spiritual as it gets.
Anand ThakurAnand Thakur Touch me. Make my body bloom. A million cherry blossoms.
Norah RoseNorah Rose Let self-love be the oxytocin for your body let it captivate your bones with self-acceptance.
Eleni SophiaEleni Sophia Sex is not a map to me anymore I am more than my physical body.
Allie MillerAllie Miller Treat your body like a home where your soul feels safe.
SargamSargam My arms spread like wings to your side of the bed, as I close my eyes. The sound of the rain, like music to my ears, my body sinks deep into my sheets. As I fall asleep with my heart in peace.
Jenny AJenny A It is the mind that makes the body rich. There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else.
Andrew CarnegieAndrew Carnegie Respect your body, it’s a home to be thankful for.
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