Body Quotes

The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation.

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

Each body has its art...

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

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

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

The body says what words cannot.

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

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.

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

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

I stand in awe of my body.

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

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

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

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

If any thing is sacred the human body is sacred.

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.

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

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

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?

[The body is] a marvelous machine...a chemical laboratory, a power-house. Every movement, voluntary or involuntary, full of secrets and marvels!

Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.

The body is a sacred garment.

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

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.

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

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

You should pray for a sound mind in a sound body.

Safeguard the health both of body and soul.

A healthy mind in a healthy body.

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

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

Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.