Motivational Quotes

Body

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

- Bhagavad Gita

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

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

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

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

The body says what words cannot.

Martha Graham

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

Oprah Winfrey

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

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

Allegra Kent

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

Allen, Woody

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

Henry Miller

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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?

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

Shakti Gawain

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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 sacred garment.

Martha Graham

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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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If any thing is sacred the human body is sacred.

Walt Whitman

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

Steinem, Gloria

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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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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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Safeguard the health both of body and soul.

Cleobulus

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

Anne Sexton

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

E. M. Forster

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

Lao-tzu

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

Freud, Sigmund

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

William Shakespeare

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

Martha Graham

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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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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

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

Shakti Gawain

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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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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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A healthy mind in a healthy body.

Juvenal

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

Pythagoras

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

George Melton

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

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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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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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 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