Motivational Quotes

Body

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

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Best Quotes about Body

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

John Locke

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

Gaskell, Elizabeth

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

Shakti Gawain

Safeguard the health both of body and soul.

Cleobulus

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Allegra Kent

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

Henry David Thoreau

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

The body says what words cannot.

Martha Graham

10.

Hide your body in the Big Dipper.

Saying, Zen

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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

12.

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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The body is a sacred garment.

Martha Graham

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

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

Novalis

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

Freud, Sigmund

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

Henry Miller

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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'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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I stand in awe of my body.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Martha Graham

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

Haney, Lee

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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

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

Pythagoras

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

Gloria Steinem

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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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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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If any thing is sacred the human body is sacred.

Walt Whitman

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

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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

Anne Sexton