Corporeality Quotes

“When people are enjoying a film they say "I didn’t see the time go by"… but I think that when time flies and you don’t see time passing by you are robbed of an hour and a half or two hours of your life. Because all you have in life is time. With my films you’re aware of every second passing through your body.”
― Chantal Akerman

“Mistakes are excuses of doing something and being apologetically right for doing it. Excuses are deceptions of not doing something and finding reasons for not doing it.
Deceptions are blindfolds that lead you to what you can sense and smell but cannot see. Don't make mistakes of creating deceptive excuses about your success.

Be In It To Win It.”
― Goitsemang Sandra Mvula

“People say that the whole human frame in all its parts and divisions is gradually in the act of decaying and renewing. What a curious time-piece it would be that could indicate to us the moment this gradual and insensible change had so completely taken place that no atom was left of the original person but there existed in his stead another person - a new ship built on an old plank. Singular - to be at one another and the same.”
― Walter Scott, The Journal of Sir Walter Scott

“Know that your body nurtures the spirit,
helps it grow, and then gives it wrong advice.”
― Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi, The Essential Rumi

“And don’t look for me in a human shape.
I am inside your looking. No room
for form with love this strong.”
― Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi, The Essential Rumi