Motivational Quotes

Body

Hide your body in the Big Dipper.

- Saying, Zen

Best Quotes about Body

Hide your body in the Big Dipper.

Saying, Zen

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

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

Gloria Steinem

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

Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.

Marilyn Ferguson

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

Eugene Delacroix

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

Lao-tzu

The body says what words cannot.

Martha Graham

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

Allen, Woody

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

Novalis

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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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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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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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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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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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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?

19.

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

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

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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I stand in awe of my body.

Henry David Thoreau

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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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A healthy mind in a healthy body.

Juvenal

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

Shakti Gawain

26.

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

George Melton

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

Cohen, Leonard

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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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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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Safeguard the health both of body and soul.

Cleobulus

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

E. M. Forster

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Henry Miller

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

Steinem, Gloria

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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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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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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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If any thing is sacred the human body is sacred.

Walt Whitman

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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. We give it orders which make no sense.

Miller, Henry

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