Motivational Quotes

Body

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

- Freud, Sigmund

Best Quotes about Body

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.

An impersonal and scientific knowledge of the structure of our bodies is the surest safeguard against prurient curiosity and lascivious gloating.

Stopes, Marie Carmichael

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

John Locke

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

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

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

Haney, Lee

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

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

The body says what words cannot.

Martha Graham

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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 bodies are our gardens to which our wills are gardeners.

William Shakespeare

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

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

Gloria Steinem

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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?

18.

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

Pythagoras

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

Henry David Thoreau

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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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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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If any thing is sacred the human body is sacred.

Walt Whitman

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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 body is mortal, but the person dwelling in the body is immortal and immeasurable.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Shakti Gawain

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

George Sheehan

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

E. M. Forster

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

Sade, Marquis De

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

Novalis

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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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Hide your body in the Big Dipper.

Saying, Zen

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

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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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A healthy mind in a healthy body.

Juvenal

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Safeguard the health both of body and soul.

Cleobulus

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

Anne Sexton

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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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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 body is a sacred garment.

Martha Graham

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

Steinem, Gloria

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

Lao-tzu

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