Motivational Quotes

Body

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

- Novalis

Best Quotes about Body

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

Steinem, Gloria

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

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

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 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

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

E. M. Forster

I stand in awe of my body.

Henry David Thoreau

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

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

Gloria Steinem

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

George Sheehan

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

William Shakespeare

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

Sade, Marquis De

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

Cohen, Leonard

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

Eugene Delacroix

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

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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

Novalis

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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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If any thing is sacred the human body is sacred.

Walt Whitman

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

Lao-tzu

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

Bhagavad Gita

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

Henry David Thoreau

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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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The body is a sacred garment.