Motivational Quotes

Body

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

- Novalis

Best Quotes about Body

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

Novalis

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

George Melton

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

Freud, Sigmund

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

George Sheehan

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

Shakti Gawain

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

William Shakespeare

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

John Locke

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

Henry Miller

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

Pythagoras

11.

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

Bhagavad Gita

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

Melton, George

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

Gloria Steinem

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

Sade, Marquis De

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

Martha Graham

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

Eugene Delacroix

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

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

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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

Henry David Thoreau

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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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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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A healthy mind in a healthy body.

Juvenal

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Safeguard the health both of body and soul.

Cleobulus

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Anne Sexton

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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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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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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 sacred garment.

Martha Graham

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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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Hide your body in the Big Dipper.