Motivational Quotes

Body

The body is a sacred garment.

- Martha Graham

Best Quotes about Body

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

Steinem, Gloria

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

George Sheehan

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

Allegra Kent

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

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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

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.

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

Freud, Sigmund

Safeguard the health both of body and soul.

Cleobulus

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

Sade, Marquis De

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The body says what words cannot.

Martha Graham

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

Pythagoras

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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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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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Our bodies communicate to us clearly and specifically, if we are willing to listen to them.

Shakti Gawain

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

William Shakespeare

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

Henry David Thoreau

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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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Hide your body in the Big Dipper.

Saying, Zen

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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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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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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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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 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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The body is a sacred garment.

Martha Graham

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

Cohen, Leonard

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

Novalis

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

Shakti Gawain

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

Martha Graham

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I stand in awe of my body.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

E. M. Forster

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

Melton, George

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

Henry Miller

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

Allen, Woody

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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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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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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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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