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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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Best Quotes about Body

1.
The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation.
George Santayana

2.
Every man is the builder of a temple called his body.
Henry David Thoreau

3.
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

4.
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

5.
The human body is a peculiar device, pat it on the back and the head swells.

6.
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

7.
If any thing is sacred the human body is sacred.
Walt Whitman

8.
Each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms.
Gloria Steinem

9.
Choose rather to be strong of soul than strong of body.
Pythagoras

10.
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

11.
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

12.
Hide your body in the Big Dipper.
Saying, Zen

13.
Man consists of two parts, his mind and his body, only the body has more fun.
Allen, Woody

14.
He who loves the world as his body may be entrusted with the empire.
Lao-tzu

15.
An impersonal and scientific knowledge of the structure of our bodies is the surest safeguard against prurient curiosity and lascivious gloating.
Stopes, Marie Carmichael

16.
Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack. We give it orders which make no sense.
Miller, Henry

17.
What we feel and think and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and viscera.
Huxley, Aldous

18.
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

19.
I am convinced that life in a physical body is meant to be an ecstatic experience.
Shakti Gawain

20.
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

21.
There is but one temple in the universe and that is the body of man.
Novalis

22.
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

23.
All we actually have is our body and its muscles that allow us to be under our own power.
Allegra Kent

24.
Safeguard the health both of body and soul.
Cleobulus

25.
A woman watches her body uneasily, as though it were an unreliable ally in the battle for love.
Cohen, Leonard

26.
But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable.
E. M. Forster

27.
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

28.
Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.
Marilyn Ferguson

29.
The body is a sacred garment.
Martha Graham

30.
The body says what words cannot.
Martha Graham

31.
Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing - peace is the measure.
George Melton

32.
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?

33.
Our bodies are our gardens to which our wills are gardeners.
William Shakespeare

34.
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

35.
Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing peace is the measure.
Melton, George

36.
A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world.
John Locke

37.
Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced.
Sade, Marquis De

38.
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

39.
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

40.
The body is a community made up of its innumerable cells or inhabitants.
Edison, Thomas A.

41.
Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower.

42.
Man is a mind betrayed, not served, by his organs.
Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

43.
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

44.
The mind's first step to self-awareness must be through the body.
George Sheehan

45.
[The body is] a marvelous machine...a chemical laboratory, a power-house. Every movement, voluntary or involuntary, full of secrets and marvels!
Theodor Herzl

46.
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

47.
I finally realized that being grateful to my body was key to giving more love to myself.
Oprah Winfrey

48.
I live in company with a body, a silent companion, exacting and eternal.
Eugene Delacroix

49.
A healthy mind in a healthy body.
Juvenal

50.
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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