Motivational Quotes

Body

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

- Anne Sexton

Best Quotes about Body

An impersonal and scientific knowledge of the structure of our bodies is the surest safeguard against prurient curiosity and lascivious gloating.

Stopes, Marie Carmichael

Safeguard the health both of body and soul.

Cleobulus

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

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

William Shakespeare

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

It takes more than just a good looking body. You've got to have the heart and soul to go with it.

Haney, Lee

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

Novalis

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

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

Shakti Gawain

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

Shakti Gawain

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

Gloria Steinem

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

Martha Graham

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

Pythagoras

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

Sade, Marquis De

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

Lao-tzu

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

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

Steinem, Gloria

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I stand in awe of my body.

Henry David Thoreau

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Hide your body in the Big Dipper.

Saying, Zen

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

George Sheehan

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The body says what words cannot.

Martha Graham

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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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The body is a sacred garment.

Martha Graham

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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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If any thing is sacred the human body is sacred.

Walt Whitman

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

E. M. Forster

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

Bhagavad Gita

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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.

Eugene Delacroix

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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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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

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

Huxley, Aldous