Motivational Quotes

Body

All we actually have is our body and its muscles that allow us to be under our own power.

- Allegra Kent

Best Quotes about Body

Man consists of two parts, his mind and his body, only the body has more fun.

Allen, Woody

Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower.

Why do we spend years using up our bodies to nurture our minds with experience and find our minds turning then to our exhausted bodies for solace?

There is but one temple in the universe and that is the body of man.

Novalis

An impersonal and scientific knowledge of the structure of our bodies is the surest safeguard against prurient curiosity and lascivious gloating.

Stopes, Marie Carmichael

Men renounce whatever they have in common with women so as to experience no commonality with women; and what is left, according to men, is one piece of flesh a few inches long, the penis. The penis is sensate; the penis is the man; the man is human; the penis signifies humanity.

Dworkin, Andrea

Why am I so determined to put the shoulder where it belongs? Women have very round shoulders that push forward slightly; this touches me and I say: One must not hide that! Then someone tells you: The shoulder is on the back. I've never seen women with shoulders on their backs.

Chanel, Coco

I am convinced that life in a physical body is meant to be an ecstatic experience.

Shakti Gawain

The body is shaped, disciplined, honored, and in time, trusted.

Martha Graham

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Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack.

Henry Miller

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I don't think that the flesh is necessarily treacherous, evil, bad. It is cantankerous, and it is independent. The idea of independence is the key. It really is like colonialism. The colonies suddenly decide that they can and should exist with their own personality and should detach from the control of the mother country. At first the colony is perceived as being treacherous. It's a betrayal. Ultimately, it can be seen as the separation of a partner that could be very valuable as an equal rather than as something you dominate.

Cronenberg, David

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[The body is] a marvelous machine...a chemical laboratory, a power-house. Every movement, voluntary or involuntary, full of secrets and marvels!

Theodor Herzl

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Let me look at the foulness and ugliness of my body. Let me see myself as an ulcerous sore running with every horrible and disgusting poison.

Loyola, St. Ignatius

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The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case of the genitals and the tongue.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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The human body has two ends on it: one to create with and one to sit on. Sometimes people get their ends reversed. When this happens they need a kick in the seat of the pants.

Oech, Roger Von

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The body is a community made up of its innumerable cells or inhabitants.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Choose rather to be strong of soul than strong of body.

Pythagoras

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If any thing is sacred the human body is sacred.

Walt Whitman

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It's also helpful to realize that this very body that we have, that's sitting right here right now... with its aches and it pleasures... is exactly what we need to be fully human, fully awake, fully alive.

Pema Chodron

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Every man is the builder of a temple called his body.

Henry David Thoreau

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The body says what words cannot.

Martha Graham

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I'm not only my spirit buy my body, and who can decide how much I, my individual self, am conditioned by the accident of my body? Would Byron have been Byron but for his club foot, or Dostoyevsky Dostoyevsky without his epilepsy?

W. Somerset Maugham

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Addiction, obesity, starvation (anorexia nervosa) are political problems, not psychiatric: each condenses and expresses a contest between the individual and some other person or persons in his environment over the control of the individual's body.

Szasz, Thomas

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Our own theological Church, as we know, has scorned and vilified the body till it has seemed almost a reproach and a shame to have one, yet at the same time has credited it with power to drag the soul to perdition.

Farnham, Eliza

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In order to live a fully human life we require not only control of our bodies (though control is a prerequisite); we must touch the unity and resonance of our physicality, our bond with the natural order, the corporeal grounds of our intelligence.

Rich, Adrienne

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Wondrous hole! Magical hole! Dazzlingly influential hole! Noble and effulgent hole! From this hole everything follows logically: first the baby, then the placenta, then, for years and years and years until death, a way of life. It is all logic, and she who lives by the hole will live also by its logic. It is, appropriately, logic with a hole in it.

Ozick, Cynthia

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The more I work with the body, keeping my assumptions in a temporary state of reservation, the more I appreciate and sympathize with a given disease. The body no longer appears as a sick or irrational demon, but as a process with its own inner logic and wisdom.

Mindell, Thomas Arnold

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Hide your body in the Big Dipper.

Saying, Zen

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Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing peace is the measure.

Melton, George

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The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen's skin.

Steinem, Gloria

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The body is mortal, but the person dwelling in the body is immortal and immeasurable.

Bhagavad Gita

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Our bodies are our gardens to which our wills are gardeners.

William Shakespeare

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Many people treat their bodies as if they were rented from Hertz-something they are using to get around in but nothing they genuinely care about understanding.

Huang, Chungliang Al

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Oh, darling, let your body in, let it tie you in, in comfort.

Anne Sexton

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Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.

Marilyn Ferguson

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What we feel and think and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and viscera.

Huxley, Aldous

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Each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms.

Gloria Steinem

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Safeguard the health both of body and soul.

Cleobulus

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The body is a sacred garment.

Martha Graham

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The mind's first step to self-awareness must be through the body.

George Sheehan

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A woman watches her body uneasily, as though it were an unreliable ally in the battle for love.

Cohen, Leonard

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A healthy mind in a healthy body.

Juvenal

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The only bodily organ which is really regarded as inferior is the atrophied penis, a girl's clitoris.

Freud, Sigmund

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I live in company with a body, a silent companion, exacting and eternal. He it is who notes that individuality which is the seal of the weakness of our race. My soul has wings, but the brutal jailer is strict.

Delacroix, Eugene

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Our bodies communicate to us clearly and specifically, if we are willing to listen to them.

Shakti Gawain

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All we actually have is our body and its muscles that allow us to be under our own power.

Allegra Kent

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When human beings have been fascinated by the contemplation of their own hearts, the more intricate biological pattern of the female has become a model for the artist, the mystic, and the saint. When mankind turns instead to what can be done, altered, built, invented, in the outer world, all natural properties of men, animals, or metals become handicaps to be altered rather than clues to be followed.

Mead, Margaret

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Man is a mind betrayed, not served, by his organs.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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The human body is a peculiar device, pat it on the back and the head swells.

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But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable.

E. M. Forster