Motivational Quotes

Body

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

Best Quotes about Body

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

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

I stand in awe of my body.

Henry David Thoreau

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

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

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

Shakti Gawain

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

Lao-tzu

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

The body is a sacred garment.

Martha Graham

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

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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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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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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Hide your body in the Big Dipper.

Saying, Zen

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He had not an ounce of superfluous flesh on his bones, and leanness goes a great way towards gentility.

Gaskell, Elizabeth

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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 an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation.

George Santayana

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

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

E. M. Forster

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

George Sheehan

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

Cohen, Leonard

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The body says what words cannot.

Martha Graham

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

William Shakespeare

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

Henry David Thoreau

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

Allen, Woody

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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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If any thing is sacred the human body is sacred.

Walt Whitman

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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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A healthy mind in a healthy body.

Juvenal

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

Martha Graham

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Anne Sexton

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Safeguard the health both of body and soul.

Cleobulus

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

Sade, Marquis De

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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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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