Motivational Quotes

Body

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

Best Quotes about Body

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

Miller, Henry

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

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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

Henry Miller

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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Atwood, Margaret

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

William Shakespeare

If any thing is sacred the human body is sacred.

Walt Whitman

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

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

Shakti Gawain

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

Eugene Delacroix

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

Gloria Steinem

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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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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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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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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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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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A healthy mind in a healthy body.

Juvenal

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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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Be sure that it is not you that is mortal, but only your body. For that man whom your outward form reveals is not yourself; the spirit is the true self, not that physical figure which and be pointed out by your finger.

Cicero

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

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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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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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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?

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

Cohen, Leonard

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

Steinem, Gloria

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

Novalis

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

Melton, George

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

John Locke

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The body says what words cannot.

Martha Graham

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

Martha Graham

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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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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.

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

Freud, Sigmund

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

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

George Sheehan

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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