Motivational Quotes

Body

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

- Lao-tzu

Best Quotes about 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

What we feel and think and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and viscera.

Huxley, Aldous

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

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

Martha Graham

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?

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

Anne Sexton

Safeguard the health both of body and soul.

Cleobulus

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

If any thing is sacred the human body is sacred.

Walt Whitman

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

William Shakespeare

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

Shakti Gawain

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

Lao-tzu

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

Henry David Thoreau

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

Freud, Sigmund

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

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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

George Santayana

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

Henry Miller

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

Steinem, Gloria

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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 community made up of its innumerable cells or inhabitants.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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 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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Hide your body in the Big Dipper.

Saying, Zen

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

Bhagavad Gita

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

Melton, George

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

Novalis

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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 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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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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The body is a sacred garment.

Martha Graham