Motivational Quotes

Body

Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.

- Marilyn Ferguson

Best Quotes about Body

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

George Sheehan

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

Henry David Thoreau

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

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Lao-tzu

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

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

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

George Santayana

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

Eugene Delacroix

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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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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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Safeguard the health both of body and soul.

Cleobulus

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

Henry Miller

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

Anne Sexton

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

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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

Freud, Sigmund

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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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A healthy mind in a healthy body.

Juvenal

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

Allen, Woody

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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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Hide your body in the Big Dipper.

Saying, Zen

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

Gloria Steinem

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

Pythagoras

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

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

Oprah Winfrey

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

Bhagavad Gita

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I stand in awe of my body.

Henry David Thoreau

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The body says what words cannot.