Body Quotes

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  You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Wise, Peace

  Gandhi, Mahatma “Inspiring Thoughts”, Rajpal & Sons

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• The body says what words cannot.

  Martha Graham

  Dance, Photography, Get Well

  "Martha Graham Reflects on Her Art and a Life in Dance". archive.nytimes.com. March 31, 1985.

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• An active mind cannot exist in an inactive body.

  George S. Patton

  Fitness, Inspiration, Mind

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

  Marion Woodman

  Inspirational, Music, Dream

  "Jungian Analysis, Eating Disorders and the ‘Great Work’". Interview with Pythia Peay, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 21, 2010.

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• The body knows things a long time before the mind catches up to them. I was wondering what my body knew that I didn't.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Long, Mind, Wonder

  Sue Monk Kidd (2003). “The Secret Life of Bees”, p.69, Penguin

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• Let your body take care of you.

  Deepak Chopra

  Care, Take Care, Your Body

  Twitter post from Feb 10, 2015

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• Be strong then, and enter into your own body; there you have a solid place for your feet.

  Kabir

  Strong, Healing, Feet

  Kabir (1977). “The Kabir book: forty-four of the ecstatic poems of Kabir”

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• Everyone you meet in your life - even total strangers - are already intimately connected to you. The idea that we are all separate and distinct beings is nothing but an illusion. We are all parts of a larger whole, like individual cells in a body.

  Steve Pavlina

  Cells, Ideas, Stranger

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• An emotion is your body's reaction to your mind.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Philosophy, Medicine, Mind

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• The body is a sacred garment.

  Martha Graham

  Inspirational, Dance, Health

  Martha Graham (1991). “Blood Memory”, Washington Square Press

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• 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

  Inspiring, Health, Soul And Body

  "Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom". Book by B.K.S. Iyengar (p. 48), September 19, 2006.

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• I speak two languages, Body and English.

  Mae West

  Two, Language, Speak

  "Body Language Pocketbook". Book by Max A. Eggert (p. 17), September 1, 2012.

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• The pain of the mind is worse than the pain of the body.

  Publilius Syrus

  Inspirational, Pain, Mind

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• A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Motivational, Wisdom, Educational

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• 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

  Work, Inspiration, Soul And Body

  Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.18, Courier Corporation

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

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspiring, Thank You, Grateful

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• 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

  Love, Sweet, Men

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

  Henry David Thoreau

  Motivational Sports, Men, Flesh And Blood

  1854 Walden, or Life in the Woods,'Higher Laws'.

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• The human body is the best picture of the human soul.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Fitness, Communication, Philosophical

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (2010). “Philosophical Investigations”, p.131, John Wiley & Sons

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• There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Inspiring, Wisdom, Philosophy

  "Thus Spoke Zarathustra". Book by Friedrich Nietzsche, 1883 - 1891.

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• In moments of crisis one is never fighting against an external enemy but always against one's own body.

  George Orwell

  Fighting, Perception, Enemy

  George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.198, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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

  Phyllis McGinley

  Peace, Healing, Awareness

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• Movement is good for the body. Stillness is good for the mind.

  Sakyong Mipham

  Fitness, Buddhist, Exercise

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• Rest when you're weary. Refresh and renew yourself, your body, your mind, your spirit. Then get back to work.

  Ralph Marston

  Inspiring, Inspiration, Health

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• If you dance with your heart, your body will follow.

  Mia Michaels

  Dance, Art, Choreographers

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