#flesh

I am the family face; flesh perishes, I live on. ↗

— Thomas Hardy

#am #face #flesh #i #i am

Tyrannies not only want to control your mind and thoughts but your flesh as well. ↗

— Ma Jian

#flesh #mind #only #thoughts #tyrannies

One does not lash hat lies at a distance. The foibles that we ridicule must at least be a little bit our own. Only then will the work be a part of our own flesh. The garden must be weeded. ↗

— Paul Klee

#distance #does #flesh #garden #hat

In each individual the spirit is made flesh, in each one the whole of creation suffers, in each one a Savior is crucified. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

#crucified #each #flesh #individual #made

God will never tell us to do something that gratifies the flesh. ↗

— Charles Stanley

#god #gratifies #never #something #tell

The mind is the result of the torments the flesh undergoes or inflicts upon itself. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#inflicts #itself #mind #result #torments

A satirist is a man whose flesh creeps so at the ugly and the savage and the incongruous aspects of society that he has to express them as brutally and nakedly as possible in order to get relief. ↗

— John Dos Passos

#brutally #creeps #express #flesh #get

The first time my father saw me in the flesh was on the stage, which is a bit weird. We went out to dinner, and he was charming and sweet, but I did all the talking. ↗

— Christopher Plummer

#charming #did #dinner #father #first

La beauté séduit la chair pour obtenir la permission de passer jusqu'à l'âme. ↗

— Simone Weil

#the-flesh #the-soul #beauty

9. The Moon Cannot Be Stolen Ryokan, a Zen master, lived the simplest kind of life in a little hut at the foot of the mountain. One evening a thief visited the hut only to discover there was nothing in it to steal. Ryokan returned and caught him. "You may have come a long way to visit me," he told the prowler, "and you should not return empty-handed. Please take my clothes as a gift." Ryokan sat naked, watching the moon. "Poor fellow," he mused, "I wish I could give him this beautiful moon. ↗

— Nyogen Senzaki

#zen-flesh-zen-bones #beauty