Motivational Quotes

Body

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

- John Locke

Best Quotes about Body

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?

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

Cohen, Leonard

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

George Santayana

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

John Locke

The body says what words cannot.

Martha Graham

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

Novalis

Safeguard the health both of body and soul.

Cleobulus

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

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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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

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

William Shakespeare

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

Gloria Steinem

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

Shakti Gawain

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

Lao-tzu

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

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

Eugene Delacroix

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

George Sheehan

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

Henry Miller

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Many things about our bodies would not seem to us so filthy and obscene if we did not have the idea of nobility in our heads.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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A healthy mind in a healthy body.

Juvenal

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

Pythagoras

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

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

Henry David Thoreau

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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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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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If any thing is sacred the human body is sacred.

Walt Whitman

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

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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

Anne Sexton

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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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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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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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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 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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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