Motivational Quotes

Body

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

Best Quotes about Body

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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Atwood, Margaret

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

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

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

E. M. Forster

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

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?

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

Bhagavad Gita

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

Lao-tzu

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

George Santayana

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

Cohen, Leonard

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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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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 a sacred garment.

Martha Graham

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

Anne Sexton

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The body says what words cannot.

Martha Graham

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

Steinem, Gloria

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

Theodor Herzl

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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 are our gardens to which our wills are gardeners.

William Shakespeare

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

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

Sade, Marquis De

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

Gloria Steinem

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

Pythagoras

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

George Melton

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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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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 stand in awe of my body.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Henry Miller

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

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

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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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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A healthy mind in a healthy body.

Juvenal

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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