Motivational Quotes

Body

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

- Steinem, Gloria

Best Quotes about Body

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

Eugene Delacroix

The body is a sacred garment.

Martha Graham

Safeguard the health both of body and soul.

Cleobulus

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.

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

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

Allen, Woody

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

George Melton

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

William Shakespeare

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

Pythagoras

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

Shakti Gawain

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

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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

Anne Sexton

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

Freud, Sigmund

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

Melton, George

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I stand in awe of my body.

Henry David Thoreau

28.

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

Lao-tzu

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

Sade, Marquis 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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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?

33.

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

Steinem, Gloria

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

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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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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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If any thing is sacred the human body is sacred.

Walt Whitman

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

E. M. Forster

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

Gloria Steinem

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

Henry Miller