Motivational Quotes

Body

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

- Sade, Marquis De

Best Quotes about Body

He had not an ounce of superfluous flesh on his bones, and leanness goes a great way towards gentility.

Gaskell, Elizabeth

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

Henry Miller

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

George Melton

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

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

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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

Henry David Thoreau

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

Marilyn Ferguson

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?

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

Melton, George

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

Lao-tzu

11.

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

Shakti Gawain

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

Eugene Delacroix

13.

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

Steinem, Gloria

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

Gloria Steinem

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

George Santayana

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

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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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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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The body says what words cannot.

Martha Graham

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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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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

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

Allen, Woody

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

William Shakespeare

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

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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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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 shaped, disciplined, honored, and in time, trusted.

Martha Graham

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

Anne Sexton

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

Shakti Gawain

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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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Safeguard the health both of body and soul.

Cleobulus

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

Novalis

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A healthy mind in a healthy body.

Juvenal

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

Cohen, Leonard

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

Pythagoras