Neal Shusterman Quotes

All biologic phenomena act to adjust: there are no biologic actions other than adjustments. Adjustment is another name for Equilibrium. Equilibrium is the Universal, or that which has nothing external to derange it.

You have to be able to center yourself, to let all of your emotions go... Don't ever forget that you play with your soul as well as your body.

This is just what I have thought when I have seen slaves at work - they seem to go through the motions of labor without putting strength into them. They keep their powers in reserve for their own use at night, perhaps.

Nature knows best.

Laborers have every disposition to work above the slave, and if there were opportunity would be glad to do so, but without such opportunity they come into competition with him… Already there is disposition to exclude him [the slave] from the trades, from public works, from drays [land transportation of goods], and the tables of hotels; he is even now excluded to a great extent. And when more laborers shall come in greater numbers to the South, they will still more increase the tendency to exclusion; they will question the right of masters to employ their slaves in any works that they may wish for; they will invoke the aid of legislation; they will use the elective franchise to that end; they may acquire the power to determine municipal elections; they will inexorably use it; and thus the town of Charleston, at the very heart of slavery, may become a fortress of democratic power against it.

Labor is blossoming or dancing where The body is not bruised to pleasure soul, Nor beauty born out of its own despair, Nor blear-eyed wisdom out of midnight oil. O chestnut tree, great-rooted blossomer, Are you the leaf, the blossom or the bole? O body swayed to music, O brightening glance How can we know the dancer from the dance?

Whatever success I've had so far has been assimilated into my body and mind.

Rage was sometimes a useful ally in the heat of a fight, but it was a trickster. It made everything seem possible.

Body is the name of a series of changes.

Economics is a slave-driver. No one has free time; no one has any leisure.

The human body is not a thing or a substance, given, but a continuous creation.

The duty of labor is written on a man's body: in the stout muscle of the arm,, and the delicate machinery of the hand.

All of us, as bodies, are in the active position of figuring out how to live with and against the constructions - or norms - that help to form us.

Man hath his daily work of body or mind Appointed, which declares his dignity, And the regard of Heav'n on all his ways.

All my experiments in Ahimsa have taught me that nonviolence in practice means common labour with the body.

When the heart is right, the mind and the body will follow.

I haven't been familiar with hard work. It was no problem for me. But first I hitchhiked to Pontiac, Mich. and got a job working in Fisher Body making those 1951 Pontiacs.

Wth subtly developed body awareness, it is possible for the individual to become the conscious orchestrator of health.

A man who cannot command himself will always be a slave.

I have to feel like I'm in control of my body.

When the eye fails to find beauty-alias solace-it commands the body to create it, or, failing that, adjusts itself to perceive virtue in ugliness.

There are two components to biological information in the body, one is intention, the other is attention.

Who knows what the human body would expand and flow out to under a more genial heaven?

Dancing, as Fred Astaire said, is next to ditch-digging. You sweat and you slave and the audience doesn't think you have a brain in your head.

Perhaps it is controlling the chaos within more than the chaos without.