{"quotes":[{"text":"Now take a human body. Why wouldn't you like to see a human body with a curling tail with a crest of ostrich feathers at the end? And with ears shaped like acanthus leaves? It would be ornamental, you know, instead of the stark, bare ugliness we have now. Well, why don't you like the idea? Because it would be useless and pointless. Because the beauty of the human body is that is hasn't a single muscle which doesn't serve its purpose; that there's not a line wasted; that every detail of it fits one idea, the idea of a man and the life of a man.","author":"Ayn Rand","tags":["art","form","function","human-body","humans","ornamentation"],"id":54932,"author_id":"Ayn+Rand"},{"text":"Those mothers with hereditary large pelvises were able to bear large-brained babies who because of their superior intelligence were able to compete successfully in adulthood with the smaller-brained offspring of mothers with smaller pelvises.","author":"Carl Sagan","tags":["brain","human-body","human-evolution"],"id":75980,"author_id":"Carl+Sagan"},{"text":"In 1988, a cave explorer named Véronique Le Guen volunteered for an extreme experiment: to live alone in an underground cavern in southern France without a clock for one hundred and eleven days, monitored by scientists who wished to study the human body's natural rhythms in the absence of time cues. For a while, she settled into a pattern of thirty hours awake and twenty hours asleep. She described herself as being 'psychologically completely out of phase, where I no longer know what my values are or what is my purpose in life.'When she returned to society, her husband later noted, she seemed to have an emptiness inside her that she was unable to fully express. 'While I was alone in my cave I was my own judge,' she said. 'You are your own most severe judge. You must never lie or all is lost. The strongest sentiment I brought out of the cave is that in my life I will never tolerate lying.' A little more than a year later, Le Guen swallowed an overdose of barbiturates and lay down in her car in Paris, a suicide at age thirty-three.","author":"Michael Finkel","tags":["alone","asleep","awake","barbiturates","cave","cave-explorer","clock","emptiness","experiment","explorer","express","extreme","human-body","judge","lie","live","lying","monitored","overdose","pattern","phase","purpose","return","rhythms","science","scientists","settled","society","solitude","study","suicide","tolerate","underground","values","volunteered"],"id":83221,"author_id":"Michael+Finkel"},{"text":"Before you diagnose any sickness, make sure there is no sickness in the mind or heart. For the emotions in a man's moon or sun, can point to the sickness in any one of his other parts.","author":"Suzy Kassem","tags":["anatomy","body","diagnosis","doctors","emotions","feelings","health","heart","human-body","medicine","mind","moon","patients","physicians","sickness","soul","sun"],"id":111771,"author_id":"Suzy+Kassem"},{"text":"Why does a human body become deceased?The reason is that as long as the human body is not free from suffering, mind cannot be happy. If a man lacks enthusiasm, either his body or mind is in a deceased condition.... Now what saps the enthusiasm in man? If there is no enthusiasm, life becomes drudgery - a mere burden to be dragged. Nothing can be achieved if there is no enthusiasm. The main reason for this lack of enthusiasm on the part of a man is that an individual looses the hope of getting an opportunity to elevate himself. Hopelessness leads to lack of enthusiasm. The mind in such cases becomes deceased.... When is enthusiasm created? When one breaths an atmosphere where one is sure of getting the legitimate reward for one's labor, only then one feels enriched by enthusiasm and inspiration.","author":"B.R. Ambedkar","tags":["enthusiasm","hope","hopelessness","human-body","inspirational","mind","suffering"],"id":114862,"author_id":"B.R.+Ambedkar"},{"text":"Before you worry about the beauty of your body, worry about the health of your body.","author":"Amit Kalantri","tags":["adage","advertisement","alliterations","amit-kalantri","amit-kalantri","amit-kalantri-writer","beautiful","beauty","body","book-writing","catch-lines","catchphrases","characters","clinic","creative-writing","doctors","eating-habits","essay","exercise","fitness","gym","health","healthy","human-body","inspirational","knowledge","medical","medicine","motivational","movie","movie-dialogue","novel-writing","philosophy","proverbs","public-speaking","quotes","rhetoric","script","script-writing","scriptwriting","sickness","speech","speechwriting","story","stress","stress-management","tag-lines","wisdom","work-out","worried","worry","writing"],"id":137993,"author_id":"Amit+Kalantri"},{"text":"It seemed to me that transhumanism was an expression of the profound human longing to transcend the confusion and desire and impotence and sickness of the body, cowering in the darkening shadow of its own decay. This longing had historically been the domain of religion, and was now the increasingly fertile terrain of technology.","author":"Mark O'Connell","tags":["decay","human-body","impotence","longing","religion","sickness","technology","transcendence","transhumanism"],"id":248678,"author_id":"Mark+O%27Connell"},{"text":"O Heavenly Children, God has blessed you all with many treasures that only the most purehearted already know. His fruitful garden is vast and without measure, and in your own very bodies, He has planted metals of copper, silver and gold.","author":"Suzy Kassem","tags":["blessed","body","copper","creator","faith","fruitful","garden","god","gold","heart","heavenly","human-body","kingdom","measure","metals","pure","pure-heart","purehearted","religion","rich","silver","spirituality","treasure","vast","wise"],"id":251061,"author_id":"Suzy+Kassem"},{"text":"A woman's body is a sacred temple. A work of art, and a life-giving vessel. And once she becomes a mother, her body serves as a medicine cabinet for her infant. From her milk she can nourish and heal her own child from a variety of ailments. And though women come in a wide assortment as vast as the many different types of flowers and birds, she is to reflect divinity in her essence, care and wisdom. God created a woman's heart to be a river of love, not to become a killing machine.","author":"Suzy Kassem","tags":["art","baby","beautiful","beauty","bird","birds","body","care","caring","child","children","cradle","creator","cures","disease","divine","divinity","essence","female","female-body","female-form","females","flower","flowers","god","heal","healing","health","healthcare","heart","holy","human-body","infant","killing-machine","life","life-giver","life-giving","love","mary","medicine","milk","mother","mother-earth","mother-s-heart","mother-s-love","motherhood","mothering","nourishing","nourishment","river","river-of-love","sacred","sacred-temple","sickness","soldier","spiritual","spirituality","suzy-kassem","temple","tenderness-of-heart","vessel","war","warfare","water","wisdom","wise","woman","woman-s-body","womanhood","women"],"id":303611,"author_id":"Suzy+Kassem"},{"text":"Before you treat a man with a condition, know that not all cures can heal all people. For the chemistry that works on one patient may not work for the next, because even medicine has its own conditions.","author":"Suzy Kassem","tags":["ailments","chemistry","cures","doctors","drugs","healthcare","human-body","medicine","patient-problems","patients","pharmacy","physicians","prescription-drugs"],"id":327428,"author_id":"Suzy+Kassem"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":17,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}