What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble than the shoe, and skin more beautiful that the garment with which it is clothed? – Michelangelo

Keeping your body healthy is an expression of gratitude to the whole cosmos—the trees, the clouds, everything. – Thích Nhất Hạnh

How idiotic civilization is! Why be given a body if you have to keep it shut up in a case like a rare, rare fiddle? – Katherine Mansfield, Bliss and Other Stories

Your cells are as depressed as you are, and your cells are as happy and frisky as you are. – Abraham–Hicks