Motivational Quotes

Body

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

- Edison, Thomas A.

Best Quotes about Body

Safeguard the health both of body and soul.

Cleobulus

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

Allen, Woody

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

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

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

Pythagoras

The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case of the genitals and the tongue.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

I stand in awe of my body.

Henry David Thoreau

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

William Shakespeare

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

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

Anne Sexton

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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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Hide your body in the Big Dipper.

Saying, Zen

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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

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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 a sacred garment.

Martha Graham

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

Sade, Marquis De

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

Lao-tzu

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

Eugene Delacroix

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

Henry David Thoreau

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

George Sheehan

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

Novalis

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

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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The body says what words cannot.

Martha Graham

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

Steinem, Gloria

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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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[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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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. We give it orders which make no sense.

Miller, Henry

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

Henry Miller

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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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If any thing is sacred the human body is sacred.

Walt Whitman

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

Martha Graham

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

Allegra Kent