Human Body Quotes

• The human body is the most complex system ever created. The more we learn about it, the more appreciation we have about what a rich system it is.

  Bill Gates

  Appreciation, Body, Rich

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• There is but one temple - the body. It is the only temple that ever existed.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Body, Temples

  Swami Vivekananda (1955). “Complete Works”

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• The human body contains blood, phlegm, yellow bile and black bile. These are the things that make up its constitution and cause its pain and health. Health is primarily that state in which these constituent substances are in the correct proportion to each other, both in strength and quantity, and are well mixed.

  Hippocrates

  Pain, Health, Yellow

  Hippocrates, Geoffrey Ernest Richard Lloyd, John Chadwick, William Neville Mann (1978). “Hippocratic writings”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• I envy those old Greek bathers, into whose hands were delivered Pericles, and Alcibiades, and the perfect models of Phidias. They had daily before their eyes the highest types of Beauty which the world has ever produced; for of all things that are beautiful, the human body is the crown.

  Bayard Taylor

  Beautiful, Eye, Hands

  Bayard Taylor (1855). “The Lands of the Saracen: Or, Pictures of Palestine, Asia Minor, Sicily and Spain”, p.154

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• ... the movements of the body reveal the movements of the soul.

  Leon Battista Alberti

  Soul, Movement, Body

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• Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.

  Jim Rohn

  Life, Motivational, Inspiring

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Jul 30, 2016

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• Just one living cell in the human body is, more complex than New York City.

  Linus Pauling

  New York, Cells, Cities

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• The human body is first and foremost a mirror to the soul and its greatest beauty comes from that.

  Auguste Rodin

  Photography, Mirrors, Soul

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• It's incredible how the human body is. That it could do so much. That it can go beyond the everydayness of life; That it can be extraordinary and powerful, and harbor a spirit of hope and pure will.

  Lynne Cox

  Powerful, Body, Spirit

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• The human body is the only machine for which there are no spare parts.

  Hermann Biggs

  Fitness Motivational, Machines, Body

  Radio Talk (quoted in Doctor's Legacy)

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• The human body is river of intelligence, energy and information that is constantly renewing itself in every second of its existence.

  Deepak Chopra

  Learning, Rivers, Energy

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• Attention to the human body brings healing and regeneration. Through awareness of the body we remember who we really are.

  Jack Kornfield

  Philosophy, Healing, Medicine

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• We are unconscious of most of our body's processes, thank goodness, because we'd screw it up if we weren't. The human body is so complex, with so many parts...a system which is far more complex than we can fully imagine. The idea that we are consciously care-taking such a large and mysterious system is ludicrous.

  Lynn Margulis

  Ideas, Environmental, Body

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• Because the beauty of the human body is that it hasn't a single muscle which doesn't serve its purpose; that there's not a line wasted; that every detail of it fits one idea, the idea of a man and the life of a man.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Ostriches, Ideas

  Ayn Rand (2005). “The Fountainhead”, p.158, Penguin

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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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• The human body essentially recreates itself every six months. Nearly every cell of hair and skin and bone dies and another is directed to its former place. You are not who you were last November.

  Donald Miller

  Cells, Hair, Skins

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• If any thing is sacred, the human body is sacred.

  Walt Whitman

  Inspiring, Sacred Art, Leaves Of Grass

  1855 Leaves of Grass, 'Children of Adam', 'I Sing the Body Electric', section 8.

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• The human body is not an instrument to be used, but a realm of one's being to be experienced, explored, enriched and, thereby, educated.

  Thomas Hanna

  Hands, Touching, Feelings

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• Your body is the harp of the soul.

  Khalil Gibran

  Soul, Body, Harps

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• The human body is not a thing or a substance, given, but a continuous creation.

  Norman O. Brown

  Substance, Body, Self Destruction

  Norman O. Brown (1990). “Love's Body, Reissue of 1966 edition”, p.155, Univ of California Press

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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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• The human body is a machine that winds up its own springs: it is a living image of the perpetual motion.

  Julien Offray de La Mettrie

  Spring, Wind, Machines

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• There is a system and a flow and an organization to the structure of the universe. Just like there's a system and a flow and an organization to the human body, to atomic structures, to the elements.

  Frederick Lenz

  Organization, Elements, Body

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• The greatest force in the human body is the natural drive of the body to heal itself - but that force in not independent of the belief system. Everything begins with belief. What we believe is the most powerful option of all.

  Norman Cousins

  Powerful, Believe, Independent

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• God wisely designed the human body so that we can neither pat our own backs nor kick ourselves too easily. The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

  Walt Disney

  Unique, Body, Like You

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