218 Best Body Quotes To Help You Love Your Body As Is

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Famous Body Quotes

The body is our general medium for having a world. - Maurice Merleau-Ponty

The body is our general medium for having a world. — Maurice Merleau-Ponty

The body says what words cannot. — Martha Graham

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

The body is a vehicle for the mind, and that vehicle is how you travel through space. — RZA

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

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

Take care of your physique. It's the one place it's a must to reside. — Jim Rohn

The body is an instrument which only gives off music when it is used as a body. Always an orchestra, and just as music traverses walls, so sensuality traverses the body and reaches up to ecstasy. — Anais Nin

The body is a boat that carries the soul in the ocean of the world. If it is not strong, or it has a hole, then it cannot cross the ocean, so the first duty is to fix the boat. — Baba Hari Dass

It is the mind that makes the body. - Sojourner Truth

It is the mind that makes the body. — Sojourner Truth

I'm not a body with a soul, I'm a soul that has a visible part called the body — Paulo Coelho

This body holding me reminds me of my own mortality. Embrace this moment, remember: we are eternal all this pain is an illusion. — Maynard James Keenan

The body is so easily damaged, so easily disposed of, water and chemicals is all it is, hardly more to it than a jellyfish drying on sand. — Margaret Atwood

The Church says: the body is a sin. Science says: the body is a machine. Advertising says: The body is a business. The Body says: I am a fiesta. — Eduardo Galeano

Like people, a picture has a skeleton, muscles and skin. — Paul Klee

I am a cigarette with a body attached to it — Raymond Carver

Short Body Quotes

  • The most beautiful curve on a woman’s body is her smile. — Bob Marley
  • A real man is one who fears the death of his heart, not of his body. — Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya
  • I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people. — Isaac Newton
  • Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
  • You say that you are just a body, but inside of you is something greater than the Universe. — Al-Shafi‘i
  • If exposure of body is modernism, then animals are more modern than humans. — Zakir Naik
  • Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live. — Jim Rohn
  • A true friend is one soul in two bodies. find the person who completes you!Aristotle
  • When the belly is empty, the body becomes spirit; and when it is full, the spirit becomes body. — Saadi Shirazi
  • The life of the body is the soul; the life of the soul is God. — Anthony of Padua

Body Image Quotes

A room without books is like a body without a soul. - Marcus Tullius Cicero quote

A room without books is like a body without a soul. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Our bodies are our gardens... our wills are our gardeners. - William Shakespeare quote

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

Body quote Just as the water reflects the stars and the moon, the body reflects the mind and soul.
Just as the water reflects the stars and the moon, the body reflects the mind and soul.
You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body. - Walter M. Miller, Jr. quote

You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body. — Walter M. Miller, Jr.

Body is not stiff, mind is stiff. - K. Pattabhi Jois quote

Body is not stiff, mind is stiff. — K. Pattabhi Jois

I could eat my body weight in sushi. - Sayings quote

I could eat my body weight in sushi. — Sayings

The best cure for the body is a quiet mind. - Napoleon Bonaparte quote

The best cure for the body is a quiet mind. — Napoleon Bonaparte

It is not the strength of the body that counts, but the strength of the spirit. - J. R. R. Tolkien quote

It is not the strength of the body that counts, but the strength of the spirit. — J. R. R. Tolkien

Age wrinkles the body; quitting wrinkles the soul. - Douglas MacArthur quote

Age wrinkles the body; quitting wrinkles the soul. — Douglas MacArthur

Friendship is one mind in two bodies. - Mencius quote

Friendship is one mind in two bodies. — Mencius

The body is your temple. Keep it pure and clean for the soul to reside in. - B.K.S. Iyengar quote

The body is your temple. Keep it pure and clean for the soul to reside in. — B.K.S. Iyengar

Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced. - Marquis De Sade quote

Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced. — Marquis De Sade

Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. - Aristotle quote

Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle

Dancing: The Highest Intelligence in the Freest Body. - Isadora Duncan quote

Dancing: The Highest Intelligence in the Freest Body. — Isadora Duncan

Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities. - C. S. Lewis quote

Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities. — C. S. Lewis

your body is not a temple, it's an amusement park. Enjoy the ride. - Anthony Bourdain quote

your body is not a temple, it's an amusement park. Enjoy the ride. — Anthony Bourdain

We have produced a world of contented bodies and discontented minds. - Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. quote

We have produced a world of contented bodies and discontented minds. — Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.

Think with your whole body. - Taisen Deshimaru quote

Think with your whole body. — Taisen Deshimaru

What makes you different or weird, that's your strength. - Meryl Streep quote

What makes you different or weird, that's your strength. — Meryl Streep

Maybe the body learns from dreams. Maybe the muscles, the neutrons, revitalize. - Michael Zaslow quote

Maybe the body learns from dreams. Maybe the muscles, the neutrons, revitalize. — Michael Zaslow

Language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication. - Abraham Maslow quote

Language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication. — Abraham Maslow

Body quote Your naked body should only belong to those who fall in love with your naked soul.
Your naked body should only belong to those who fall in love with your naked soul.

Love Your Body Quotes

What is it you want to change? Your hair, your face, your body? Why? For God is in love with all those things and he might weep when they are gone. — St. Catherine of Siena

If you only walk on sunny days you'll never reach your destination. — Paulo Coelho

Your naked body should only belong to those who fall in love with your naked soul. — Charlie Chaplin

Body quote To change your body you must first change your mind.
To change your body you must first change your mind.

You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves. — Mary Oliver

If beauty is in the eye of the beholder, so is ugliness. — Rodney Dangerfield

Tell the image makers and magazine sellers and the plastic surgeons that you are not afraid. That what you fear the most is the death of imagination and originality and metaphor and passion. Then be bold and LOVE YOUR BODY. STOP FIXING IT. It was never broken. — Marion Woodman

Body quote Your body will be around a lot longer than that expensive handbag. Invest in yourself.
Your body will be around a lot longer than that expensive handbag. Invest in yourself.

I know that what you call 'God' really exists, but not in the form you think; God is primal cosmic energy, the love in your body, your integrity, and your perception of the nature in you and outside of you. — Wilhelm Reich

Think highly of yourself because the world takes you at your own estimate. - Kurt Hahn

Think highly of yourself because the world takes you at your own estimate. — Kurt Hahn

Angels are always with you. You're never alone, especially in your time of need. Listen in stillness for our guidance, which comes upon wings to your heart, mind, and body. Our messages always speak of love. — Doreen Virtue

If you look deeply into the palm of your hand, you will see your parents and all generations of your ancestors. All of them are alive in this moment. Each is present in your body. You are the continuation of each of these people. — Nhat Hanh

Listen To Your Body Quotes

What you have been taught by listening to others' words you will forget very quickly; what you have learned with your whole body you will remember for the rest of your life. — Gichin Funakoshi

Do not follow the ideas of others, but learn to listen to the voice within yourself. Your body and mind will become clear and you will realize the unity of all things. — Dogen

Once we get used to listening to our dreams, our whole body responds like a musical instrument. — Marion Woodman

Body quote Even if you can't physically see the result in front of you right now, every single effort you do is
Even if you can't physically see the result in front of you right now, every single effort you do is changing your body from the inside. Never get discouraged.

Your body is constantly communicating with you, learn to listen to it. — Eric Berg

Listen to your body, it knows what it needs. — Wim Hof

Listening to your body is an important part of figuring out what works best for you. — Will Bulsiewicz

Body quote Our bodies are capable of anything. It's our mind we have to convince.
Our bodies are capable of anything. It's our mind we have to convince.

Health is an announcement of agreement between your body, mind and spirit. Honor your body, keep it in good shape. When you are not healthy, look to see which parts of you disagree. Your body will demonstrate the truth to you. Notice what it is showing you, listen to what it is saying. — Neale Donald Walsch

In training, you listen to your body. In competition, you tell your body to shut up. — Sayings

The most important thing you can do for your health is to listen to your body. — Eric Berg

When you are balanced and when you listen and attend to the needs of your body, mind, and spirit, your natural beauty comes out. — Christy Turlington

Healthy Body Quotes

To achieve the highest accomplishments within the scope of our capabilities in all walks of life we must constantly strive to acquire strong, healthy bodies and develop our minds to the limits of our ability. — Joseph Pilates

All parts of the body which have a function, if used in moderation and exercised in labors in which each is accustomed, become thereby healthy, well developed and age more slowly, but if unused they become liable to disease, defective in growth and age quickly. — Hippocrates

Love in the Arab world is like a prisoner, and I want to set (it) free. I want to free the Arab soul, sense and body with my poetry. The relationships between men and women in our society are not healthy. — Nizar Qabbani

Body quote Take care of your body, it's the only home you have.
Take care of your body, it's the only home you have.

Who is happy? This is a person, who has a healthy body, is dowered with peace of mind and cultivates his talents. — Thales

What man is happy? He who has a healthy body, a resourceful mind, and a docile nature. — Thales

Exercise is not just about burning calories, it’s about creating a healthy environment in your body. —

Body quote Love does not look at your body or face, rather it looks at your heart
Love does not look at your body or face, rather it looks at your heart

Why do ppl think shredded abs = health? It you are grumpy, fatigued, & have a bad relationship with food but have abs are you truly healthy? — Layne Norton

A cultural fixation on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty but an obsession about female obedience. — Naomi Wolf

Remember, this is not all or nothing. But it is about crowding out the junk with healthy food that nourishes your body and helps you to thrive. — Will Bulsiewicz

When a woman is fit and healthy, everything else falls into place. We are conditioned to put others first, that 'burnt chop syndrome' we observed in our mothers. It takes discipline to pay attention to our diets, to exercise, to leave time for refreshment of mind, body and spirit. — Quentin Bryce

Take Care Of Your Body Quotes

Take care of your body as if you were going to live forever; and take care of your soul as if you were going to die tomorrow. — Saint Augustine

I did as much research as I could and I took ownership of this illness, because if you don't take care of your body, where are you going to live? — Karen Duffy

My goal has always been to help people help themselves. Your body is your most priceless possession; you've go to take care of it! — Jack LaLanne

Body quote Gratitude is the best medicine. It heals your mind, you body and your spirit. And attracts more thin
Gratitude is the best medicine. It heals your mind, you body and your spirit. And attracts more things to be grateful for.

I just stay home all the time. But the things I have learned outside of basketball is you got to take care of your body. — Giannis Antetokounmpo

Go back and take care of yourself. Your body needs you, your feelings need you, your perceptions need you. Your suffering needs you to acknowledge it. Go home and be there for all these things. — Nhat Hanh

I get enough sleep. I take very good care of myself. Growing up as a dancer, you know your body so well, you know what to do to overcome something. — Elizabeth Berkley

Body quote A room without books is like a body without a soul.
A room without books is like a body without a soul.

A lot of people say I am using all the procedures for my face. I didn't do anything. I live a healthy life, I take care of my skin and my body. I'm against Botox, I'm against injections; I think it's damaging your face, damaging your nerves. It's all me. I will age gracefully, as my mom does. — Melania Trump

Take care of your body with steadfast fidelity. The soul must see through these eyes alone, and if they are dim, the whole world is clouded. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Take care of your body, then the rest will automatically become stronger. — Zhuangzi

If you're working out and taking care of your body, you don't really want the greasy food that makes you feel tired or blah. You actually crave the good stuff! — Jenna Ushkowitz

Female Body Quotes

A dress is a piece of ephemeral architecture, designed to enhance the proportions of the female body. — Christian Dior

The naked female body is treated so weirdly in society. It's like people are constantly begging to see it, but once they do, someone's a hoe. — Lena Horne

The female body is something that's so beautiful. I wish women would be proud of their bodies and not diss other women for being proud of theirs. — Christina Aguilera

Body quote I'm usually good about my temper, but all these men trying to control women's bodies are really begi
I'm usually good about my temper, but all these men trying to control women's bodies are really beginning to piss me off.

Through her paintings, she breaks all the taboos of the woman's body and of female sexuality. — Diego Rivera

I'm pretty comfortable with my body. I'm imperfect. The imperfections are there. People are going to see them, but I take the view you only live once. — Kate Hudson

The nationalism I seek is one that decolonizes the brown and female body as it decolonizes the brown and female earth — Cherrie Moraga

I'm proud of my body. My body weight will always be something I'll struggle with for the rest of my life, but I'm finally in a good place and learning to love me for me, and not somebody else's standards. — Khloe Kardashian

The surgeons' market is imaginary, since there is nothing wrong with women's faces or bodies that social change won't cure; so the surgeons depend for their income on warping female self-perception and multiplying female self-hatred. — Naomi Wolf

Theologians frequently assert that God has no body, no gender, no race and no age. Most people state that God is neither male nor female. Yet most people become flustered, upset or even angry when it is suggested that the God they know as Lord and Father might also be God the Mother, or Goddess. — Carol P. Christ

The female body is a masterpiece. Everyone likes to look at the female body, especially in dynamic, athletic sport. — Natalie Cook

Summer Body Quotes

We aged a hundred years, and this happened in a single hour: the short summer had already died, the body of the ploughed plains smoked. — Anna Akhmatova

So long as my body lives, and yours -- we are one flesh," he whispered, "And when my body shall cease, my soul will still be yours. Claire -- I swear by my hope of heaven, I will not be parted from you. — Diana Gabaldon

It has been ordained that there be summer and winter, abundance and dearth, virtue and vice, and all such opposites for the harmony of the whole, and (Zeus) has given each of us a body, property, and companions. — Epictetus

When the leaves fall, the whole earth is a cemetery pleasant to walk in. I love to wander and muse over them in their graves. Here are no lying nor vain epitaphs. — Henry David Thoreau

Bulgarians eat tarator every single day in summer. They think of it as salad although we'd call it a soup. You can make it as thick or thin as you like depending on how much water you add. It's very practical in summer because yogurt cools the body faster than water, but the water hydrates you. — Elizabeth Kostova

Summer is a drag because even normal people become obsessed with their bodies. A bad bathing suit can humiliate you more tan anything else in life. — Conan O'Brien

Basically, it's just fatigue, ... I've run out of gas a little bit. I've played a lot this summer, and the body's just telling me I'm fatigued. — Greg Rusedski

The Summer King stroked her cheek with his thumb. “Can you offer me your fidelity? Your heart and your body and your companionship for eternity? Do you want my fidelity? Either love me or kiss me goodbye, my Summer Queen. — Melissa Marr

Healthy Mind Healthy Body Quotes

Eating well and staying active is the necessary base to a clear complexion and a healthy body and mind. — Hannah Bronfman

An unhealthy mind, even in a healthy body, will ultimately destroy health. — Manly Hall

Pray for a healthy mind in a healthy body. — Juvenal

Health is a state of complete harmony of the body, mind and spirit. — B.K.S. Iyengar

Healthy plants and trees yield abundant flowers and fruits. Similarly, from a healthy person, smiles and happiness shine forth like the rays of the sun. — B.K.S. Iyengar

True wealth is having a healthy mind, body, and spirit. True wealth is having the knowledge to maneuver and navigate the mental obstacles that inhibit your ability to soar. — RuPaul

The secret of health for both mind and body is...live the present moment wisely and earnestly. — Buddha

Health is a state of complete harmony of the body, mind and spirit. When one is free from physical disabilities and mental distractions, the gates of the soul open. — B.K.S. Iyengar

By living in harmony with Nature one gains a healthy mind and body. — Mata Amritanandamayi

Know, then, whatever cheerful and serene supports the mind supports the body too. — John Armstrong

Positive Body Quotes

I know my curves are sexy and I want everyone else to know that theirs are too. There is no reason to hide and every reason to flaunt. — Ashley Graham

Beginners must master low stance and posture, natural body positions are for the advanced. — Gichin Funakoshi

There is no absolute up or down, as Aristotle taught; no absolute position in space; but the position of a body is relative to that of other bodies. Everywhere there is incessant relative change in position throughout the universe, and the observer is always at the center of things. — Giordano Bruno

Most traditional methods of working on oneself are mostly pain centered. People get to repeat over and over their painful emotions without knowing how to use the body's own inherently positive direction and force. — Eugene Gendlin

The world doesn't really need more people who can bend their bodies into amazing positions. What it needs are kinder, more compassionate, generous people. — Donna Farhi

The greatest discovery in life is to discover that our essential nature does not share the limits nor the destiny of the body and mind. — Rupert Spira

You have to train your brain to be positive just like you work out your body. — Shawn Achor

Even if it has not been your habit throughout your life so far, I recommend that you learn to think positively about your body. — Ina May Gaskin

Yesterday evening I received a call that a person had located a body and the investigators from SDSD Homicide Division described our beloved mother, Sally Estabrook. Thank you all for your prayers, your good thoughts, and positive vibes. — Dave Mustaine

The body is incredibly adaptable, and we can make positive changes to our health at any age. — Steven Gundry

Your Body Quotes

Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success. — Swami Vivekananda

Horses are very keen on body language, and what I refer to as “presence”, and expression. They know quite a bit about you before you ever get to ‘em. They can read things about you clear across an arena. — Buck Brannaman

You never identify yourself with the shadows cast by your body, or with its reflection, or with the body you see in a dream or in your imagination. Therefore you should not identify yourself with this living body either. — Adi Shankara

Bodybuilding is an art, your body is the canvas, weights are your brush and nutrition is your paint. We all have the ability to turn a self portrait into a masterpiece. — Kai Greene

If you want to give birth to your true self, you are going to have to dig deep down into that body of yours and let your soul howl. Sometimes you have to take a leap of faith and trust that if you turn off your head, your feet will take you where you need to go. — Gabrielle Roth

We are the only species of mammal that doubts our ability to give birth. It's profitable to scare women about birth. But let's stop it. I tell women: Your body is not a lemon. — Ina May Gaskin

You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body. - C. S. Lewis

You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body. — C. S. Lewis

Make peace with your body, it's not manmade, there are no flaws, there are no mistakes. — Warsan Shire

Your soul is a seeker, lover and artist; shape-shifting through archetypal energy, between your darkness and fields of light, your body and spirit, your heaven and hell, until you land in the moment of sweet surrender; when you, as a dancer, disappear into the dance. — Gabrielle Roth

One of my keys to success is a lot of pillows. I feel like a lot of pillows is important to relax each piece of your body. — DJ Khaled

Human Body Quotes

Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things. — Winston Churchill

The supreme state of human love is...the unity of one soul in two bodies. — Sri Aurobindo

Don't think you can...know you can! Your human body is the most impressive tool that you will ever own. Even if you can't control everything...you can always control something. Your body - Use it...Amuse it...because one day...you're going to lose it. — Jeff Hardy

Don't be afraid. Human birth is full of suffering and one has to endure everything patiently, taking the Name of God. None, not even God in human form can escape the sufferings of the body and mind. — Sarada Devi

The human body is vapor materialized by sunshine mixed with the life of the stars. — Paracelsus

Color provokes a psychic vibration. Color hides a power still unknown but real, which acts on every part of the human body. — Wassily Kandinsky

Communism needs democracy like the human body needs oxygen. — Leon Trotsky

The landscape affects the human psyche - the soul, the body and the innermost contemplations - like music. Every time you feel nature deeper you resonate better with her, finding new elements of balance and freedom. — Nikos Kazantzakis

Everyone should consider his body as a priceless gift from one whom he loves above all, a marvelous work of art, of indescribable beauty, and mystery beyond human conception, and so delicate that a word, a breath, a look, nay, a thought may injure it. — Nikola Tesla

The moment I have realized God sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see God in him - that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free. — Swami Vivekananda

Physical Body Quotes

In every physical action, unless it is purely mechanical, there is concealed some inner action, some feelings. This is how the two levels of life in a part are created, the inner and the outer. They are intertwined. A common purpose brings them together and reinforces the unbreakable bond. — Constantin Stanislavski

Physical fitness is the first requisite of happiness. In order to achieve happiness, it is imperative to gain mastery of your body. If at the age of 30 you are stiff and out of shape, you are old. If at 60 you are supple and strong then you are young. — Joseph Pilates

Your emotions affect every cell in your body. Mind and body, mental and physical, are intertwined. — Thomas Tutko

Real love doesn't die. It's the physical body that dies. Genuine, authentic love has no expectations whatsoever; it doesn't even need the physical presence of a person. ... Even when he is dead and buried that part of you that loves the person will always live. — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

It is not the end of the physical body that should worry us. Rather, our concern must be to live while we're alive - to release our inner selves from the spiritual death that comes with living behind a facade designed to conform to external definitions of who and what we are. — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

There are two types of pain, the one that breaks you and the one that changes you. In the gym, pain is felt as a result of weakness leaving the body. Physical pain is the glue of transformation and the pain of progress. The more you endure the harder it gets to accept the thought of failure. — Greg Plitt

Death is simply a shedding of the physical body like the butterfly shedding its cocoon. It is a transition to a higher state of consciousness where you continue to perceive, to understand, to laugh, and to be able to grow. — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Thought breeds thought; children familiar with great thoughts take as naturally to thinking for themselves as the well-nourished body takes to growing; and we must bear in mind that growth, physical, intellectual, moral, spiritual, is the sole end of education. — Charlotte Mason

Shoes transform your body language and attitude. They lift you physically and emotionally. — Christian Louboutin

Your physical and mental health is determined by the state of your oral microbiome. What's good for your mouth, is good for the rest of your body. — Mark Burhenne

Body Work Quotes

Working out is modern couture. No outfit is going to make you look or feel as good as having a fit body. Buy less clothing and go to the gym instead. — Rick Owens

Christ has no body now but mine. He prays in me, works in me, looks through my eyes, speaks through my words, works through my hands, walks with my feet and loves with my heart. — Teresa of Avila

The mind always fail first, not the body. The secret is to make your mind work for you, not against you. — Arnold Schwarzenegger

When the Body Gets working appropriately, the force of Gravity can flow through, then spontaneously, the body heals itself — Ida Rolf

All experience is a drug experience. Whether it's mediated by our own [endogenous] drugs, or whether it's mediated by substances that we ingest that are found in plants, cognition, consciousness, the working of the brain, it's all a chemically mediated process. Life itself is a drug experience. — Dennis McKenna

We must delight in each other, make others conditions our own, rejoice together, mourn together, labor and suffer together, always having before our eyes our commission and community in the work, our community as members of the same body. — John Winthrop

The body builds up by working, the mind by studying. — Albanian Proverbs

The longevity genes I work on are called 'sirtuins', named after the yeast SIR2 gene, the first one to be discovered. There are seven sirtuins in mammals, SIRT1 to SIRT7, and they are made by almost every cell in the body. — David Sinclair

If you’re a gazelle, you don’t have a very complex emotional life, despite being a social species. But primates are just smart enough that they can think their bodies into working differently. It’s not until you get to primates that you get things that look like depression. — Robert M. Sapolsky

One writer, for instance, excels at a plan or a title page, another works away at the body of the book, and a third is a dab at an index. — Oliver Goldsmith

Parts Of The Body Quotes

Mankind is a single body and each nation a part of that body. We must never say "What does it matter to me if some part of the world is ailing?" If there is such an illness, we must concern ourselves with it as though we were having that illness. — Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

Polka dots can't stay alone. When we obliterate nature and our bodies with polka dots, we become part of the unity of our environments. — Yayoi Kusama

I believe that the unity of mind and body is an objective reality. They are not just parts somehow related to each other, but an inseparable whole while functioning. A brain without a body could not think. — Moshe Feldenkrais

He has willed - He wills incessantly - that the modifications of the mind and those of the body shall be reciprocal. This is the conjunction and the natural dependence of the two parts of which we are constituted. — Nicolas Malebranche

My fingers are long and beautiful, as, it has been well been documented, are various other parts of my body. — Donald Trump

The electric energy which motivates us is not within our bodies at all. It is a part of the universal supply which flows through us from the Universal Source with an intensity set by our desires and our will. — Walter Russell

When you love a man, he becomes more than a body. His physical limbs expand, and his outline recedes, vanishes. He is rich and sweet and right. He is part of the world, the atmosphere, the blue sky and the blue water. — Gwendolyn Brooks

Woman’s bodies continue to be dismembered in advertising. Over and over again just one part of the body is used to sell products, which is one of the most dehumanizing thing you can do to someone. Not only is she a thing, but just one part of that thing is focused on. — Jean Kilbourne

The buttocks are the most aesthetically pleasing part of the body because they are non-functional. Although they conceal an essential orifice, these pointless globes are as near as the human form can ever come to abstract art. — Kenneth Tynan

Woman's soul is present and lives more intensely in all parts of the body, and it is inwardly affected by that which happens to the body; whereas, with men, the body has more pronoucedly the character of an instrument which serves them in their work and which is accompanied by a certain detachment. — Edith Stein

Body Wanting Quotes

Everybody wants to be a bodybuilder, but don't nobody wanna lift no heavy ass weight. — Ronnie Coleman

My purpose is to allow people to move closer to actually being creatures of free choice, to genuinely reflect individual creativity and emotion, freeing the body of habitual tensions and wired-patterns of behaviour so that it may respond without inhibition to do what the person wants. — Moshe Feldenkrais

Most people don't pray until they're in trouble. When people need help they pray a lot. But after they get what they want, they slow down. If a man takes five showers a day, his body will be clean. Praying five times a day helps me clean my mind. — Muhammad Ali

If God didn't want a women to cook he wouldn't have put milk and eggs in her body. — Theo Von

The body does not want you to do this. As you run, it tells you to stop but the mind must be strong. You always go too far for your body. You must handle the pain with strategy...It is not age; it is not diet. It is the will to succeed. — Jacqueline Gareau

We don’t want to turn the safety net into a hammock that lulls able-bodied people to lives of dependency and complacency... — Paul Ryan

But like infection is the petty thought: it creeps and hides, and wants to be nowhere--until the whole body is decayed and withered by the petty infection... Thus spoke Zarathustra. — Friedrich Nietzsche

I don't want to be mediocre, this is the fear of my soul and my body. — Mircea Eliade

To be able to float and move around and, pretty much effortlessly, do whatever you want with your body in space is pretty amazing. — Peggy Whitson

Think about running an iron man. You have to toughen up... you literally have to change your body to be capable of doing those things. It's the same thing with the mind. You have to train your mind to be capable of sticking through, of working crazy long hours, learning things you don't want to do. — Tom Bilyeu

Body Change Quotes

While other professions are concerned with changing the environment to suit the weakened body, chiropractic is concerned with strengthening the body to suit the environment. — B. J. Palmer

Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride! — Hunter S. Thompson

The moment you change your perception is the moment you rewrite the chemistry of your body. — Bruce H. Lipton

In my studies of astronomy and philosophy I hold this opinion about the universe, that the Sun remains fixed in the centre of the circle of heavenly bodies, without changing its place; and the Earth, turning upon itself, moves round the Sun. — Galileo Galilei

Our bodies change our minds and our minds can change our behavior and our behavior can change our outcomes. — Amy Cuddy

Deep breathing changes the chemistry of the body by bringing oxygen into the tissue. — Wim Hof

Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body. — Hunter S. Thompson

Yoga is the perfect vehicle for change of yourself. First by creating a strong and powerful body and mind. It is a starting point from which you can begin to realize your human spirit. — Bikram Choudhury

Concentration can be cultivated. One can learn to exercise will power, discipline one's body and train one's mind. — Anil Ambani

I change my hairstyle every day for the show, I'm fastidious and vain about my nails and teeth and grooming and makeup, but a perfect body, forget it. Dust to dust, wuggies to wuggies. — Kathie Lee Gifford

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More Body Quotes

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

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

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. - Joseph Addison quote

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. — Joseph Addison

From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity. - Edvard Munch quote

From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity. — Edvard Munch

Brevity is the body and soul of wit. - Jean Paul quote

Brevity is the body and soul of wit. — Jean Paul

After thirty, a body has a mind of its own. - Bette Midler quote

After thirty, a body has a mind of its own. — Bette Midler

If you dance with your heart, your body will follow. - Mia Michaels quote

If you dance with your heart, your body will follow. — Mia Michaels

Play like dreams serves the function of self realization. - Donald Woods Winnicott quote

Play like dreams serves the function of self realization. — Donald Woods Winnicott

A healthy body is a guest chamber for the soul: a sick body is a prison. - Francis Bacon quote

A healthy body is a guest chamber for the soul: a sick body is a prison. — Francis Bacon

The body is meant to be seen, not all covered up. - Marilyn Monroe quote

The body is meant to be seen, not all covered up. — Marilyn Monroe

The body can do amazing things in a situation when it is really called for. - Suzanne Farrell quote

The body can do amazing things in a situation when it is really called for. — Suzanne Farrell

Food for the body is not enough. There must be food for the soul. - Dorothy Day quote

Food for the body is not enough. There must be food for the soul. — Dorothy Day

Be strong in body, clean in mind, lofty in ideals. - James Naismith quote

Be strong in body, clean in mind, lofty in ideals. — James Naismith

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

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

I know body hair bothers some women, but a lot of men like a fluffy partner. - Barry Humphries quote

I know body hair bothers some women, but a lot of men like a fluffy partner. — Barry Humphries

Rome wasn't built in a day. And neither was your body. - Tony Horton quote

Rome wasn't built in a day. And neither was your body. — Tony Horton

In Conclusion

In addition, quotes about the body can serve as a reminder to prioritize self-care and mental well-being. They encourage individuals to listen to their bodies, honor their needs, and engage in activities that promote relaxation, stress reduction, and overall well-being. These quotes remind us that our bodies are not just vessels to be judged by others, but rather, they are the homes we reside in. Quotes about the body encourage us to nurture our bodies, practice self-compassion, and engage in activities that bring us joy and fulfillment. They remind us that our bodies are unique gifts, and it is important to treat them with love, care, and respect.

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