Motivational Quotes

Body

The body says what words cannot.

- Martha Graham

Best Quotes about Body

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.

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

Marilyn Ferguson

Safeguard the health both of body and soul.

Cleobulus

A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world.

John Locke

It takes more than just a good looking body. You've got to have the heart and soul to go with it.

Haney, Lee

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

Gloria Steinem

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.

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

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

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Henry Miller

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

Freud, Sigmund

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

E. M. Forster

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

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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

Steinem, Gloria

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

William Shakespeare

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

Pythagoras

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

Sade, Marquis De

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I stand in awe of my body.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Lao-tzu

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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 a sacred garment.

Martha Graham

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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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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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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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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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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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Hide your body in the Big Dipper.

Saying, Zen

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

Henry David Thoreau

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

Oprah Winfrey

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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 body says what words cannot.

Martha Graham

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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 human body is a peculiar device, pat it on the back and the head swells.

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

Miller, Henry