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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

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

Pythagoras

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

Edison, Thomas A.

Hide your body in the Big Dipper.

Saying, Zen

Safeguard the health both of body and soul.

Cleobulus

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

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

Freud, Sigmund

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

Martha Graham

What we feel and think and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and viscera.

Huxley, Aldous

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

George Sheehan

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

Steinem, Gloria

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The body says what words cannot.

Martha Graham

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

Henry David Thoreau

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

Novalis

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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.

Melton, George

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

Gloria Steinem

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

Anne Sexton

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

E. M. Forster

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

Oprah Winfrey

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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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I stand in awe of my body.

Henry David Thoreau

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

George Melton

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

William Shakespeare

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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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If any thing is sacred the human body is sacred.

Walt Whitman

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

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

Cohen, Leonard