Motivational Quotes

Body

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

- Lao-tzu

Best Quotes about Body

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

Henry Miller

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

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

Cohen, Leonard

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

Shakti Gawain

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

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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

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

Novalis

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

Haney, Lee

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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Hide your body in the Big Dipper.

Saying, Zen

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

Sade, Marquis De

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

Gloria Steinem

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

Steinem, Gloria

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

Pythagoras

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

Henry David Thoreau

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

George Melton

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

William Shakespeare

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Martha Graham

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

E. M. Forster

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

Gaskell, Elizabeth

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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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Safeguard the health both of body and soul.

Cleobulus

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