Motivational Quotes

Body

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

- Sade, Marquis De

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.

I stand in awe of my body.

Henry David Thoreau

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

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

Our bodies communicate to us clearly and specifically, if we are willing to listen to them.

Shakti Gawain

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 body says what words cannot.

Martha Graham

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

Pythagoras

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

E. M. Forster

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Novalis

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

William Shakespeare

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A healthy mind in a healthy body.

Juvenal

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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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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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Hide your body in the Big Dipper.

Saying, Zen

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

Henry Miller

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

Bhagavad Gita

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

Eugene Delacroix

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

Martha Graham

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

Sade, Marquis De

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Safeguard the health both of body and soul.

Cleobulus

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

Anne Sexton

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

Oprah Winfrey

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

George Sheehan

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

Lao-tzu

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

Melton, George

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

Allen, Woody