Motivational Quotes

Body

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

- Anne Sexton

Best Quotes about Body

The body says what words cannot.

Martha Graham

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

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

Shakti Gawain

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

Sade, Marquis De

Safeguard the health both of body and soul.

Cleobulus

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

Shakti Gawain

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?

Every man is the builder of a temple called his 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

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

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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 body is a sacred garment.

Martha Graham

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If any thing is sacred the human body is sacred.

Walt Whitman

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

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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

Allen, Woody

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

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

Oprah Winfrey

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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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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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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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A healthy mind in a healthy body.

Juvenal

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

Gloria Steinem

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

Pythagoras

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

Novalis

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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Hide your body in the Big Dipper.

Saying, Zen

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

Henry Miller

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

Eugene Delacroix

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

E. M. Forster

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

George Sheehan

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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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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