“The soul needs more space than the body.”

“Antony … used to say that it behooved a man to give all his time to his soul rather than his body, yet to grant a short space to the body through its necessities; but all the more earnestly to give up the whole remainder to the soul and seek its profit, that it might not be dragged down by the pleasures of the body, but, on the contrary, the body might be in subjection to the soul.”

Athanasius of Alexandria (295–373) Patriarch of Alexandria

“Just as our bodies need proper food to live and develop, our souls need love to blossom. The strength and nourishment that love can give our souls is even more potent than the nourishing power of a mother’s milk for a baby.”

Mata Amritanandamayi (1953) Hindu spiritual leader and guru

“It is more necessary for the soul to be cured than the body; for it is better to die than to live badly.”

Epictetus (50–138) philosopher from Ancient Greece

“The human soul needs beauty more than bread.”

D.H. Lawrence (1885–1930) English novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, literary critic and painter

“In that mysterious dimension where the body meets the soul the stereotype is born and has her being. She is more body than soul, more soul than mind. To her belongs all that is beautiful, eve the very word beauty itself. All that exists, exists to beautify her.”

Germaine Greer book The Female Eunuch

“Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul.”

Wayne W. Dyer (1940–2015) American writer

“The body of the legal system needs a soul and sometimes even an additional soul”

Menachem Elon (1923–2013) Israeli High Court judge

“Saying that what we call our “selves” consist only of our bodies and that reason, soul, and love arise only from the body, is like saying that what we call our body is equivalent to the food that feeds the body. It is true that my body is only made up of digested food and that my body would not exist without food, but my body is not the same as food. Food is what the body needs for life, but it is not the body itself. The same thing is true of my soul. It is true that without my body there would not be that which I call my soul, but my soul is not my body. The soul may need the body, but the body is not the soul.”

Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910) Russian writer

“the body is wiser than its inhabitants. the body is the soul. the body is god’s messenger.”

Erica Jong (1942) Novelist, poet, memoirist, critic