Motivational Quotes

Body

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

- Henry Miller

Best Quotes about Body

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

Marilyn Ferguson

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

Cohen, Leonard

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

Freud, Sigmund

The basic Female body comes with the following accessories: garter belt, panty-girdle, crinoline, camisole, bustle, brassiere, stomacher, chemise, virgin zone, spike heels, nose ring, veil, kid gloves, fishnet stockings, fichu, bandeau, Merry Widow, weepers, chokers, barrettes, bangles, beads, lorgnette, feather boa, basic black, compact, Lycra stretch one-piece with modesty panel, designer peignoir, flannel nightie, lace teddy, bed, head.

Atwood, Margaret

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

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

It is so much more difficult to live with one's body than with one's soul. One's body is so much more exacting: what it won't have it won't have, and nothing can make bitter into sweet.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

What was my body to me? A kind of flunkey in my service. Let but my anger wax hot, my love grow exalted, my hatred collect in me, and that boasted solidarity between me and my body was gone.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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If any thing is sacred the human body is sacred.

Walt Whitman

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

E. M. Forster

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I live in company with a body, a silent companion, exacting and eternal.

Eugene Delacroix

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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 human body is not a thing or substance, given, but a continuous creation. The human body is an energy system which is never a complete structure; never static; is in perpetual inner self-construction and self-destruction; we destroy in order to make it new.

Brown, Norman O.

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Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced.

Sade, Marquis De

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The body is a sacred garment.

Martha Graham

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He who loves the world as his body may be entrusted with the empire.

Lao-tzu

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

Gloria Steinem

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

Stopes, Marie Carmichael

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He had not an ounce of superfluous flesh on his bones, and leanness goes a great way towards gentility.

Gaskell, Elizabeth

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

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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

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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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Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions and intelligence are beside that great elemental point.

Mcginley, Phyllis

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It is confidence in our bodies, minds and spirits that allows us to keep looking for new adventures, new directions to grow in, and new lessons to learn - which is what life is all about.

Oprah Winfrey

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The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation.

George Santayana

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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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Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack. We give it orders which make no sense.

Miller, Henry

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

Novalis

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

Allen, Woody

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I finally realized that being grateful to my body was key to giving more love to myself.

Oprah Winfrey

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It takes more than just a good looking body. You've got to have the heart and soul to go with it.

Haney, Lee

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A healthy mind in a healthy body.

Juvenal

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

Anne Sexton

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

Shakti Gawain

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

Martha Graham

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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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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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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

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Safeguard the health both of body and soul.

Cleobulus

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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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The body says what words cannot.

Martha Graham

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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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My skull, my eyes, my nose three times, my jaw, my shoulder, my chest, two fingers, a knee, everything from the top of my head to the bottom of my feet. [Listing what body parts he has broken]

Chan, Jackie

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

Henry David Thoreau

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A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world.

John Locke