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Body Quotes and Sayings

Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul.
Wayne Dyer

Our bodies are our gardens – our wills are our gardeners.
William Shakespeare

Safeguard the health both of body and soul
Cleobulus

Emotion always has its roots in the unconscious and manifests itself in the body.
Irene Claremont de Castillejo

The body is a bundle of careful compromises.
Randolph Nesse and George Williams

An active mind cannot exist in an inactive body.
General George S. Patton

We use our brains too little, and when we do, it is only to make excuses for our reflexes and our instincts.
Martin H. Fischer

Blood is that fragile scarlet tree we carry within us.
Osbert Sitwell

The older you get, the tougher it is to lose weight because by then, your body and your fat are really good friends.

The body never lies.
Martha Graham

Beyond my body my veins are invisible.
Antonio Porchia

To keep the body in good health is a duty… otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.
Buddha

Take care of your body. It’s the only place you have to live.
Jim Rohn

The pain of the mind is worse than the pain of the body.
Publilius Syrus

The human body is the only machine for which there are no spare parts.
Hermann M. Biggs

Every man is the builder of a Temple called his body, nor can he get off by hammering marble instead.
Henry David Thoreau

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

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

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

If anything is sacred, the human body is sacred.
Walt Whitman

Few of us have lost our minds, but most of us have long ago lost our bodies.
Ken Wilbur

The human body is the best picture of the human soul.
Ludwig Wittgenstein

Your body is a temple, but only if you treat it as one.
Astrid Alauda

The human body is a machine which winds its own springs.
Julien Offroy de la Mettrie

If the body be feeble, the mind will not be strong.
Thomas Jefferson

The mind’s first step to self-awareness must be through the body.
George Sheehan

A house is a home when it shelters the body and comforts the soul.
Phillip Moffitt

A woman is as young as her knees.
Mary Quant

The body is but a pair of pincers set over a bellows and a stew pan and the whole fixed upon stilts.
Samuel Butler

The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.
St. Jerome

Man is the sole animal whose nudity offends his own companions, and the only one who, in his natural actions, withdraws and hides himself from his own kind.
Montaigne

Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs.
Aldous Huxley

What soap is to the body, laughter is to the soul.
Yiddish Proverb

A trembling in the bones may carry a more convincing testimony than the dry documented deductions of the brain.
Llewelyn Powers

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

Wisdom is to the soul what health is to the body.
De Saint-Real

I stand in awe of my body.
Henry David Thoreau

Hormones, vitamines, stimulants and depressives are oils upon the creaky machinery of life. Principal item, however, is the machinery.
Martin H. Fischer

Sometimes your body is smarter than you are.
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Man has made many machines, complex and cunning, but which of them indeed rivals the workings of his heart?
Pablo Casals

Good for the body is the work of the body, good for the soul the work of the soul, and good for either the work of the other.
Henry David Thoreau

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

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.
Theodore Roosevelt

There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophies.
Friedrich Nietzche

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

A house is a home when it shelters the body and comforts the soul.
Phillip Moffitt

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.
Chungliang Al Huang

We are all cells in the same body of humanity.
Peace Pilgrim

The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar, and is shocked by the unexpected: the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.
W.H. Auden

The mind can cook up very subtle syndromes to throw at our bodies.
Astrid Alauda

Perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add but when there is no longer anything to take away, when a body has been stripped down to its nakedness.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The mind commands the body and it obeys. The mind orders itself and meets resistance.
Saint Augustine

This body is not a home but an inn, and that only briefly.
Seneca

The body is a sacred garment.
Martha Graham

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

Some patients I see are actually draining into their bodies the diseased thoughts of their minds.
Zacharty Bercovitz

Body and mind, like man and wife, do not always agree to die together.
Charles Caleb Colton

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