Body Quotes

"I stand in awe of my body."
-Henry David Thoreau

"As for the pyramids, there is nothing to wonder at in them so much as the fact that so many men could be found degraded enough to spend their lives constructing a tomb for some ambitious booby, whom it would have been wiser and manlier to have drowned in the Nile, and then given his body to the dogs."
-Henry David Thoreau

"Every man is the builder of a temple called his body."
-Henry David Thoreau

"To the body and mind which have been cramped by noxious work or company, nature is medicinal and restores their tone."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Enlighten the people, generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like spirits at the dawn of day."
-Thomas Jefferson

"The sovereign invigorator of the body is exercise, and of all the exercises walking is the best."
-Thomas Jefferson

"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

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

"Our bodies are our gardens to which our wills are gardeners."
-William Shakespeare

"Choose rather to be strong of soul than strong of body."
-Pythagoras

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

"The body pays for a slip of the foot, and gold pays for a slip of the tongue."
-Malaysian Proverb

"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

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

"Each body has its art..."
-Gwendolyn Brooks

"But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable."
-E. M. Forster

"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

"Body, remember not only how much you were loved Not only the beds you lay on, But also those desires glowing openly In eyes that looked at you Trembling for you in voices."
-Constantine Peter Cavafy

"Oh, darling, let your body in, let it tie you in, in comfort."
-Anne Sexton

"If any thing is sacred the human body is sacred."
-Walt Whitman

"The thing I like about my body is that it's strong. I can move furniture around my apartment. I can ride my horse... I can play basketball. It's a well functioning machine."
-Cindy Crawford

"His mouth is for export and his head has no entrance."
-Douglas Feaver

"Each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms."
-Gloria Steinem

"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

"There is one body that knows more than anybody, and that is everybody."
-Charles M. De Talleyrand

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

"To me style is just the outside of content, and content the inside of style, like the outside and the inside of the human body. Both go together, they can't be separated."
-Jean luc Godard

"The body is shaped, disciplined, honored, and in time, trusted."
-Martha Graham