Body Quotes

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

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The way he treats his body, you’d think he was renting.
- Robert Brault

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Why do we alienate ourselves so much from our bodies? It’s that big piece of machinery attached to your head.
- Carrie Latet

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The body never lies.
- Martha Graham

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We don’t stop at our skin.
- Dolores Krieger

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A woman is as young as her knees.
- Mary Quant

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Beyond my body my veins are invisible.
- Antonio Porchia

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The body is a bundle of careful compromises.
- Randolph Nesse

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When one is pretending, the entire body revolts.
- Anais Nin

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

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

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

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The human body is a machine which winds its own springs.
- Julien Offroy

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

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I love the body. Flesh is so honest, and organs do not lie.
- Candea Core

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

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The best and most efficient pharmacy is within your own system.
- Robert C. Peale

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

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

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

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

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

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Varicose veins are the result of an improper selection of grandparents.
- William Osler

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

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

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The heart is not simply suspended in a body but in a culture, a place, a time.
- Mimi Guarneri

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

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

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The body is a big sagacity, a plurality with one sense, a war and a peace, a flock and a shepherd.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

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

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Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.
- Mark Twain

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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

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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

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The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.
- Daniel Defoe

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How idiotic civilization is! Why be given a body if you have to keep it shut up in a case like a rare, rare fiddle?
- Katherine Mansfield

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The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life. And the body is born young and grows old. That is life’s tragedy.
- Oscar Wilde

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

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In vain we shall penetrate more and more deeply the secrets of the structure of the human body, we shall not dupe nature; we shall die as usual.
- Bernard

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Yet this is health: To have a body functioning so perfectly that when its few simple needs are met it never calls attention to its own existence.
- Bertha Stuart Dyment

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

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