These body quotes will inspire you. Body the physical structure of a person or an animal, including the bones, flesh, and organs.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging body quotes, body sayings, and body proverbs.
Famous Body Quotes
- “The body is a sacred garment.” ~ Martha Graham
- “Be not ashamed women, … You are the gates of the body, and you are the gates of the soul.” ~ Walt Whitman
- “The body says what words cannot.” ~ Martha Graham
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“An active mind cannot exist in an inactive body.” ~ George S. Patton
- “Let your body take care of you.” ~ Deepak Chopra
- “This body is not a home, but an inn; and that only for a short time.” ~ Seneca the Younger
- “You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
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“The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.” ~ Napoleon Bonaparte
- “Take care of your body with steadfast fidelity. The soul must see through these eyes alone, and if they are dim, the whole world is clouded.” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- “The philosopher’s soul dwells in his head, the poet’s soul is in his heart; the singer’s soul lingers about his throat, but the soul of the dancer abides in all her body.” ~ Khalil Gibran
- “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
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“Think with your whole body.” ~ Taisen Deshimaru
- “Sex is full of lies. The body tries to tell the truth. But, it’s usually too battered with rules to be heard, and bound with pretenses so it can hardly move. We cripple ourselves with lies.” ~ Jim Morrison
- “When God created you, He created a dream and wrapped a body around it.” ~ Lou Engle
- “It is not the end of the physical body that should worry us. Rather, our concern must be to live while we’re alive – to release our inner selves from the spiritual death that comes with living behind a facade designed to conform to external definitions of who and what we are.” ~ Elisabeth Kubler-Ross , Physical body quotes
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“If any thing is sacred, the human body is sacred.” ~ Walt Whitman
- “Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.” ~ Carl Sagan
- “At the very instant that you think, “I am happy,” a chemical messenger translates your emotion, which has no solid existence whatever in the material world, into a bit of matter so perfectly attuned to your desire that literally every cell in your body learns of your happiness and joins in.” ~ Deepak Chopra
- “Your body is not who you are. The mind and spirit transcend the body.” ~ Christopher Reeve
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“Spiritual healing is KNOWING that the body is perfect. Mental healing is effecting a perfect body by visualizing the body as perfect.” ~ Lester Levenson
- “There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
- “I live in company with a body, a silent companion, exacting and eternal.” ~ Eugene Delacroix
- “Health is a state of complete harmony of the body, mind and spirit.” ~ B.K.S. Iyengar
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“Man has no Body distinct from his Soul; for that called Body is a portion of Soul discerned by the five Senses, the chief inlets of Soul in this age.” ~ William Blake
- “Every man is the builder of a temple called his body.” ~ Henry David Thoreau
- “An emotion is your body’s reaction to your mind.” ~ Eckhart Tolle
- “Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul.” ~ Wayne Dyer
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“Our bodies communicate to us clearly and specifically, if we are willing to listen to them.” ~ Shakti Gawain
- “As we free our breath through diaphragmatic breathing, we relax our emotions and let go our body tensions.” ~ Gay Hendricks
- “When you coordinate your mind and body, you have unlimited access to the wisdom of the universe.” ~ Koichi Tohei
- “Everything you need to know is within you. Listen. Feel. Trust the body’s wisdom.” ~ Dan Millman
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“The human body is the only machine for which there are no spare parts.” ~ Hermann Biggs
- “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
- “A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises, I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise and independence to the mind. Games played with the ball, and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind. Let your gun therefore be your constant companion of your walks.” ~ Thomas Jefferson
- “The pain of the mind is worse than the pain of the body.” ~ Publilius Syrus
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“The human body is the best picture of the human soul.” ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
- “I finally realized that being grateful to my body was key to giving more love to myself.” ~ Oprah Winfrey , Love your body quotes
- “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
- “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
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“I speak two languages, Body and English.” ~ Mae West
- “A sound mind in a sound body, is a short, but full description of a happy state in this World: he that has these two, has little more to wish for; and he that wants either of them, will be little the better for anything else.” ~ John Locke
- “Your body hears everything your mind says.” ~ Naomi Judd
- “I acknowledge the privilege of being alive in a human body at this moment, endowed with senses, memories, emotions, thoughts, and the space of mind in its wisdom aspect.” ~ Alex Grey , Human body quotes
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“Few of us have lost our minds, but most of us have long ago lost our bodies.” ~ Ken Wilber
- “A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
- “A sound mind in a sound body is a thing to be prayed for.” ~ Juvenal
- “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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“A strong body makes the mind strong.” ~ Thomas Jefferson
- “If you don’t think your anxiety, depression, sadness and stress impact your physical health, think again. All of these emotions trigger chemical reactions in your body, which can lead to inflammation and a weakened immune system. Learn how to cope, sweet friend. There will always be dark days.” ~ Kris Carr
- “Health is an announcement of agreement between your body, mind and spirit. Honor your body, keep it in good shape. When you are not healthy, look to see which parts of you disagree. Your body will demonstrate the truth to you. Notice what it is showing you, listen to what it is saying.” ~ Neale Donald Walsch
- “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
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“When you are in vibrational harmony, your body produces whatever it needs to remain in perfect balance.” ~ Esther Hicks
- “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
- “Rest when you’re weary. Refresh and renew yourself, your body, your mind, your spirit. Then get back to work.” ~ Ralph Marston
- “Take care of your body with steadfast fidelity.” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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“The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation.” ~ George Santayana
- “This is an essential experience of any mystical realization. You die to your flesh and are born into your spirit. You identify yourself with the consciousness and life of which your body is but the vehicle. You die to the vehicle and become identified in your consciousness with that of which the vehicle is but the carrier. That is the God.” ~ Joseph Campbell
- “If the body be feeble, the mind will not be strong.” ~ Thomas Jefferson
- “Once we get used to listening to our dreams, our whole body responds like a musical instrument.” ~ Marion Woodman
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“Games played with the ball, and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind.” ~ Thomas Jefferson
- “He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.” ~ Thomas Carlyle
- “It is in moments of illness that we are compelled to recognize that we live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom, whole worlds apart, who has no knowledge of us and by whom it is impossible to make ourselves understood: our body.” ~ Marcel Proust
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“I sing the body electric.” ~ Walt Whitman
- “Each body has its art.” ~ Gwendolyn Brooks
- “Be strong then, and enter into your own body; there you have a solid place for your feet.” ~ Kabir
Body is the physical whole of a live or dead person or animal the human body.
