Motivational Quotes

Body

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

- Edison, Thomas A.

Best Quotes about Body

I stand in awe of my body.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Bhagavad Gita

Safeguard the health both of body and soul.

Cleobulus

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

Cohen, Leonard

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

Lao-tzu

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

Pythagoras

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

Shakti Gawain

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

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

Martha Graham

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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 healthy mind in a healthy body.

Juvenal

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

Sade, Marquis De

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

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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

Allen, Woody

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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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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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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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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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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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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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Hide your body in the Big Dipper.

Saying, Zen

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

William Shakespeare

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

Steinem, Gloria

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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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The body is a sacred garment.

Martha Graham

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

Novalis

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The body says what words cannot.

Martha Graham

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Freud, Sigmund

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

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If any thing is sacred the human body is sacred.

Walt Whitman

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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