Motivational Quotes

Body

The body is a sacred garment.

- Martha Graham

Best Quotes about Body

Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack. We give it orders which make no sense.

Miller, Henry

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

George Sheehan

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

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

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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

Lao-tzu

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

Melton, George

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

Cohen, Leonard

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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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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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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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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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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

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

Allen, Woody

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

Shakti Gawain

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

William Shakespeare

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

Henry Miller

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

Eugene Delacroix

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

Steinem, Gloria

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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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 body is a sacred garment.

Martha Graham

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

Henry David Thoreau

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

Gloria Steinem

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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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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

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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 says what words cannot.

Martha Graham

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

E. M. Forster

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

Martha Graham

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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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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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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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If any thing is sacred the human body is sacred.

Walt Whitman

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