Body Quotes And Sayings

by allinspiration.com

Here is a collection of body quotes and sayings from various authors, celebrities, famous persons, and other sources compiled by allinspiration.com for you to read and enjoy.

“Those who gave thee a body, furnished it with weakness; but He who gave thee Soul, armed thee with resolution. Employ it, and thou art wise; be wise and thou art happy.”
– Akhenaton

“I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.”
– Albert Einstein

“Take a trip to the exotic landscape of your lover’s body.”
– Alexandra Katehakis

“What is the matter with these people, these people who won’t stop fighting, won’t stop hurting each other long enough to see that a body is a thing of beauty, is a miracle of “rivers and oceans and islands and continents contained within itself? That the brain is divided into two hemispheres, each symmetrical, each perfect, each with its own system of waterways. These people of war should be shown an x-ray of an intraparenchymal hemorrhage, of a hemorrhage in an eighteen-year-old girl’s brain, a girl named Ivy. Take a look at that, people of war. See, you should not hurt each other, and this is why. Without you ever even trying, this is what can happen to your body, your beautiful body, and your brain, your beautiful symmetrical brain, and your heart, and your soul.
– Alison McGhee

“The planter, the farmer, the mechanic, and the laborer… form the great body of the people of the United States, they are the bone and sinew of the country men who love liberty and desire nothing but equal rights and equal laws.”
– Andrew Jackson

“I know the theological answers, but do my blood and my pulse?”
– Ann Voskamp

“Your body is not a temple, it’s an amusement park. Enjoy the ride”
– Anthony Bourdain

“Maybe you could be mine / or maybe we’ll be entwined / aimless in this sexless foreplay.”
– Anthony Bourdain

“Perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add but when there is no longer anything to take away, when a body has been stripped down to its nakedness.”
– Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“Training gives us an outlet for suppressed energies created by stress and thus tones the spirit just as exercise conditions the body.”
– Arnold Schwarzenegger

“Just as man can’t exist without his body, so no rights can exist without the right to translate one’s rights into reality, to think, to work and keep the results, which means: the right of property.”
– Ayn Rand

“A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.”
– Benjamin Franklin

“Games lubricate the body and the mind.”
– Benjamin Franklin

“After thirty, a body has a mind of its own.”
– Bette Midler

“It is not the body’s posture, but the heart’s attitude that counts when we pray.”
– Billy Graham

“I’m a fountain of blood. In the shape of a girl.”
– Björk

“The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes within the souls of people when they realize their relationship, their oneness with the universe and all its powers, and when they realize at the center of the universe dwells the Great Spirit, and that its center is really everywhere, it is within each of us.”
– Black Elk

“An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.”
– Buddha

“To keep the body in good health is a duty… otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.”
– Buddha

“Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.”
– Carl Sagan

“My body is an ugly masterpiece that lives off the beauty of sound.”
– Chad Sugg

“Laws and principles are not for the times when there is no temptation: they are for such moments as this, when body and soul rise in mutiny against their rigour … If at my convenience I might break them, what would be their worth?”
– Charlotte Brontë

“I don’t need plastic in my body to validate me as a woman.”
– Courtney Love

“As long as I am breathing, in my eyes, I am just beginning.”
– Criss Jami

“It is a scientific fact that your body will not absorb cholesterol if you take it from another person’s plate.”
– Dave Barry

“Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.”
– Denis Waitley

“I made a commitment to completely cut out drinking and anything that might hamper me from getting my mind and body together. And the floodgates of goodness have opened upon me – spiritually and financially.”
– Denzel Washington

“Everyone has their own insecurities, regardless of how you look or how people perceive you, but sometimes people give their insecurities too much power. Defining beauty is simply a matter of opinion. For me, real beauty has very little to do with the structure of someone’s face or body.”
– Devon Aoki

“Consider the holiness of your hands. They are how you do your work on this earth; they are a microcosm of the hands of the Goddess, and can change the world as easily as hers can.”
– Dianne Sylvan

“The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven’t changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don’t change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.”
– Doris Lessing

“Food for the body is not enough. There must be food for the soul.”
– Dorothy Day

“If it ever occurs to people to value the honour of the mind equally with the honour of the body, we shall get a social revolution of a quite unparalleled sort.”
– Dorothy L. Sayers

“Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.”
– Douglas MacArthur

“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 Hughes Galeano

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

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