Top 100 Our Body Quotes
#1. It is not possible that we should remember that we existed before our body, for our can bear no trace of such existence, neither can eternity be defined in terms of time or have any relation to time. But notwithstanding, we feel and know that we are eternal.
Baruch Spinoza
#2. If you think your body and mind are two, that is wrong; if you think that they are one, that is also wrong. Our body and mind are both two and one.
Shunryu Suzuki
#3. our mission does not consist in our appearance, a beautiful haircut or in showing off our body, decorations and clothes
Sunday Adelaja
#4. I was caged in our body and caged in his arms and, somehow, the former was the real prison.
Kat Zhang
#5. We are not our body, that we have a body, but a body is not who we are. We are that which possesses a body, and that which stands outside of the body, if you please, and exists quite apart and independent from it, and uses the body as a device or tool.
Neale Donald Walsch
#6. A greater subject fitteth Faustus' wit: Bid Economy10 farewell, and11 Galen come, Seeing, Ubi desinit philosophus, ibi incipit medicus: Be a physician, Faustus; heap up gold, And be eterniz'd for some wondrous cure: Summum bonum medicinae sanitas, The end of physic is our body's health.
Christopher Marlowe
#7. There are things we do automatically, our body, acting on its own, avoids inconvenience whenever possible, that is why we sleep on the eve of battle or execution, and why ultimately we die when we can no longer bear the harsh light of existence.
Jose Saramago
#8. As we free our breath through diaphragmatic breathing, we relax our emotions and let go our body tensions.
Gay Hendricks
#9. There are many good forms of meditation practice. A good meditation practice is any one that develops awareness or mindfulness of our body and our sense, of our mind and heart.
Jack Kornfield
#10. Masturbation is a meditation on self-love. So many of us are afflicted with self-loathing, bad body images, shame about our body functions, and confusion about sex and pleasure, I recommend an intense love affair with yourself
Betty Dodson
#11. All we actually have is our body and its muscles that allow us to be under our own power.
Allegra Kent
#12. Faffing is good. It is an important part of life. Faffing is when we disconnect from the matrix and idle for a while, like a car. Our body and spirit know deep down that human beings were not made for constant toil so subconsciously creates space through the mechanism of faffing.
Tom Hodgkinson
#13. Our body is the place that our memories and dreams call home for the time being.
Deepak Chopra
#14. The clitoris is the female sex organ, and the fact that we aren't told that when we were small children is devastating. We grow up with no information about the pleasure center of our body.
Betty Dodson
#15. Love knows that nothing is ever needed but more love. It is what we all do with our hearts that affects others most deeply. It is not the movements of our body or the words within our minds that transmit love. We love from heart to heart.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
#16. There is is again, that slight stinging sensation of the cheeks. It's our body's light speed response to the world showing us up. And it's one of life's most unpleasant feelings, leaving one to wonder what evolutionary purpose it could possible serve.
Amor Towles
#17. Our body is a well-set clock, which keeps good time, but if it be too much or indiscreetly tampered with, the alarm runs out before the hour.
Joseph Hall
#18. Our body remains alive, yet sooner or later our soul will receive a mortal blow. The perfect crime
for we don't know who murdered our joy, what their motives were, or where the guilty parties are to be found.
Paulo Coelho
#19. Once we open up to the flow of energy within our body, we can also open up to the flow of energy in the universe.
Wilhelm Reich
#20. There are times we have to put our body on the line for what we believe, for the injustices we see even within our own families.
Terry Tempest Williams
#21. The longing to be holy makes us weep, and we trust tears since they are made of water and come from our body, a double blessing.
Deborah Keenan
#22. On the one hand our body is our temple, but on the other we despise it for being mere machinery. We've become accustomed to valuing mind over body. We feel nothing but contempt for the factors relating to our physical survival.
Frank Schatzing
#23. I want to keep our body above water. you want to make us a fish. - fish
Nayyirah Waheed
#24. So when you're in REM sleep, your brain is very active, our body is quiet, but your brain is really processing a lot of things, a lot of emotions; we dream the most in REM sleep. And then you go back down in the deep stages, and so on and so forth.
Shelby Harris
#25. As the eye naturally seeks the light and vision, and our body naturally desires food and drink, so our mind is possessed with a becoming and natural desire to become acquainted with the truth of God and the causes of things.
Origen
#26. Andy Clark refers to humans as 'natural-born cyborgs.' What he means is that we habitually extend and change our body-concept without even thinking twice about it.
Karl Schroeder
#27. When we truly embrace acceptance, that's when our body exhales and can begin healing.
Kris Carr
#28. Humans aren't built to sit all day. Nor are we built for the kinds of repetitive, small movements that so much of today's specialized work demands. Our bodies crave big, varied movements that originate at the core of our body.
Scott Jurek
#29. Bringing a spiritual dimension into all that we do is essential for ending the struggle and dancing with life. Our body and our minds can take us only so far, our spirit can lead us all the way Home.
Susan Jeffers
#30. Our body is simply a vehicle for our soul. But if we want our soul to travel in style, we must take good care of our body.
Charles F. Glassman
#31. When they [people with insomnia] start worrying about not sleeping, I'll say, "Say the mantra to myself; if I don't sleep tonight, I'll likely sleep tomorrow, and if not tomorrow then definitely the third" because our body has a way of naturally catching up.
Shelby Harris
#32. If we strive to strengthen our body now; to overcome our faults; to cultivate new virtues; the Sun of our next life will rise under much more auspicious conditions than those under which we now live, and thus we may truly rule our stars and master our fate.
Max Heindel
#33. All mysteries of human experience that are eliminated when we understand that we are a great deal more than our body and when you look very deeply at who and what the soul really is, who and what God really is.
Neale Donald Walsch
#34. At the very center of our being is rhythmic movement, a cyclic expansion and contraction that is both in our body and outside it, that is both in our mind and in our body, that is both in our consciousness and not in it.
Andrew Weil
#35. We possess our body by chance and we are already pleased with it. If our physical bodies went through ten thousand transformations without end, how incomparable would this joy be! Therefore the sage roams freely in the realm in which nothing can escape, but all endures.
Zhuangzi
#36. As women, we are constantly criticising and judging ourselves in terms of our body, how we dress, what profession we take up, how we fare in that. Indian women are gifted with certain body types and features, which is healthy, and we should accept that.
Vidya Balan
#37. Being able to jump off a swing is actually a useful and meaningful thing for a child to do ... those are the tests that help us understand the limits of our body. That's a positive learning experience that we deny children on a regular basis.
Gever Tulley
#38. Sometimes our body is willing, but our mind is weak. Sometimes our mind is willing, but our body is weak. Do not be afraid. Strive to extend your capacity but do not be disappointed with yourself. What does not challenge us, cannot change us.
B.K.S. Iyengar
#39. When we root ourselves so that we are experiencing love on all levels - feeling it in our body and heart, accepting love, surrounded by love, generating love - then we are giving as well as receiving at the same time that we are connected to God.
Laura Lane
#40. Positive thoughts are a source of joy, love and an indication of our alignment with the source. Negative thoughts create disharmony in our body for example depression, fear and aggression indicate misalignment with the source.
Hina Hashmi
#41. 8we are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed, but not despairing; 9persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed; 10always carrying about in the body the dying of Jesus, that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our body.
Anonymous
#42. Greed is bad because it's like unassimilated food in our system. If we eat more than our body requires, it will lead us to indigestion.
Hina Hashmi
#43. What happens when someone throws you against a wall or tells you you're a jackass or puts you down or calls you bad names? It goes into your body. We hold it in our body. If we don't have a way to let that go and release that, it becomes sickness eventually.
Eve Ensler
#44. The chemicals that are running our body and our brain are the same chemicals that are involved in emotion. And that says to me that ... wed better pay more attention to emotions with respect to health.
Candace Pert
#45. They say we die twice - once when the last breath leaves our body and once when the last person we know says our name.
Al Pacino
#46. The assault on our body image, the hypersexualization of girls and women and subsequent degradation of our sexuality as we walk through the decades, and the general incessant objectification is what this conversation allegedly about my face is really about.
Ashley Judd
#47. We all experience 'soul moments' in life-when we see a magnificent sunrise, hear the call of the loon, see the wrinkles in our mother's hands, or smell the sweetness of a baby. During these moments, our body, as well as our brain, resonates as we experience the glory of being a human being.
Marion Woodman
#49. We live in this universe not with the power of our body, but with the power of our will and spirit.
Debasish Mridha
#50. We are always in a certain amount of pain. There is chafing somewhere, and if it isn't in our body, then it's in our mind. There's an itch, all the time.
John Ajvide Lindqvist
#51. Shame and blame should have no place in our body, mind, or spirit.
Asa Don Brown
#52. Our body is a moulded river
Novalis
#53. Dancing is a very healthy thing to do for our body.
Yoko Ono
#54. Just as, when we touch a live wire, the electric force infuses itself into our body, when we deeply meditate on God the power of the whole universe seeks entry into our personality.
Krishnananda Saraswati
#55. We need to do a cleansing process within ourselves. In sleep we get rid of fatigue, but the deeper stresses remain in our body. Sudarshan Kriya cleanses the system from the inside. The breath has a great secret to offer.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
#56. do not control everything that happens in our body - which
Jostein Gaarder
#57. We forget we're mostly water till the rain falls and every atom in our body starts to go home.
Arianna Huffington
#58. In our quest for short-term returns, or results, we often ruin a prized physical asset - a car, a computer, a washer or dryer, even our body or our environment. Keeping P and PC in balance makes a tremendous difference in the effective use of physical assets.
Stephen R. Covey
#59. Our soul is not united to our body in the ordinary sense of these terms. It is immediately and directly united to God alone.
Nicolas Malebranche
#60. Are we treating our body kindly by the way we eat, by the way we drink, by the way we work? Are we treating ourselves with enough joy and tenderness and peace? Or are we feeding ourselves with toxins that we get from the market - the spiritual, intellectual, entertainment market?
Nhat Hanh
#61. Real sea salt is full of minerals and nutrients our body needs. It is rich in electrolytes which help our body absorb water and feed it on a deep cellular level. Most mineral salts have some iodine in them in various amounts.
Nancy Addison
#62. Our intellect holds the same position in the world of thought as our body occupies in the expanse of nature.
Blaise Pascal
#63. You can't ignore our body. It's the body that houses your healthy mind and a pious soul.
Girdhar Joshi
#64. We put our body and minds and lives on the line for being in that ring for the fans, that's why I respect fighters. Unless they don't respect me then I can't give any respect back.
Nonito Donaire
#65. Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself.
Leo Tolstoy
#66. Language is our body and our breath, our world and our thought, our perception and even out unconscious.
Philippe Sollers
#67. It is the narrow, hidden tracks that lead back to our lost homeland, what contains the solution to the last mysteries is not the ugly scar that life's rasp leaves on us, but the fine, almost invisible writing that is engraved on our body.
Gustav Meyrink
#68. My approach is to start from the straightforward principle that our body is a machine. A very complicated machine, but none the less a machine, and it can be subjected to maintenance and repair in the same way as a simple machine, like a car.
Aubrey De Grey
#69. So long as we are in conflict with our body, we cannot find peace of mind.
Georg Feuerstein
#70. Love is the miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives. I am not talking about vanity or arrogance ... for that is not love. It is only fear. I am talking about having a great respect for ourselves and a gratitude for the miracle of our body and our mind.
Louise Hay
#71. Our body is designed to work for reaching a set goal
Sunday Adelaja
#72. We shall sleep on moss for many nights, till the beasts of the body come to tear our body. We have no bed now, save the moss,and no future, save the beasts.
Ayn Rand
#73. Letting go does not mean not caring about things. It means caring for them in a flexible and wise way. In meditation, we pay attention to our body with care and respect.
Jack Kornfield
#74. How are we tending to the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual sides to the 'vehicle' of our life...our body.
This garden needs constant care and constant growth to stay alive and healthy in all possible senses
Abha Maryada Banerjee
#75. Music is a mantra that soothes the soul ... something our body has to have. It's important to understand the power of music.
Michael Jackson
#76. We ought to cherish the body. Our body's substance is not from an evil principle, as the Manicheans imagine, but from God. And therefore, we ought to cherish the body by the friendship of love, by which we love God.
Thomas Aquinas
#77. The secret of life is to be found in life itself, in the full organic, intellectual and spiritual activities of our body.
Alexis Carrel
#78. We need worship for our spirit, fellowship for our soul and committed subservience for our body.
Larry Norman
#79. I think most of us are torn. We have at least two people at war in our body. One person wants to retire and grow fabulous tomatoes, and the other wants to stand up on a pedestal and be worshipped and get bigger and bigger and bigger until she explodes.
Bette Midler
#80. When we make the cerebral state the beginning of an action, and in no sense the condition of a perception, we place the perceived images of things outside the image of our body, and thus replace perception within the things themselves.
Henri Bergson
#81. When we have passed the tests we are sent to Earth to learn, we are allowed to graduate. We are allowed to shed our body, which imprisons our souls.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
#82. Healing happens when we learn how to listen to our body. Your body knows exactly what it needs to be radiantly healthy.
Catherine Carrigan
#83. When we are open, strong and fluid in our body, we are experiencing the best that life has to offer with very little limitation or constraints.
Dashama Konah Gordon
#84. When we read a magazine, we consume. When we watch a television program, we consume. Whatever we consume affects our body and mind. If we consume toxic magazine articles, movies, or video games, they will feed our craving, our anger, and our fear.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#85. Only within our body, with its heart and mind, can bondage and suffering be found, and only here can we find true liberation.
Gautama Buddha
#86. If our body is a perfect expression of our thought about body, and if our thought about body is that it's condition has everything to do with inner image and nothing to do with time, then we don't have to be impatient for being too young or frightened of being too old.
Richard Bach
#87. After a stressful event, we often crave comfort food. Our body is calling for more glucose and simple carbohydrates and fat... And in modern life, people tend to have fewer friends and less support, because there's no tribe. Being alone is not good for the brain.
John J. Ratey
#88. To me, writing is about how we see. The writers I want to read teach me how to see-see the world differently. In my writing there is no separation between how I observe the world and how I write the world. We write through our eyes. We write through our body. We write out of what we know.
Terry Tempest Williams
#90. the poet Emerson said that when we have worn out our shoes, the strength of the journey has passed into our body.
Ruta Sepetys
#92. Our body teaches us that health lies in balance and harmony, rather than in conflict and fighting.
Ilchi Lee
#93. As to the strangest claim in the novel: that only 10 percent of the cells in our body are human (and the rest are bacteria and parasites). This is true! There is a wonderful book exploring this topic that is as horrific as it is humorous, Human Wildlife by Dr. Robert Buckman.
James Rollins
#94. Our shoes carry our body, so we polish them; our body carries our soul, so we clean the body, but, what about our soul?
Rahul Rampal
#95. When we set up a goal for ourselves our body starts to produce inner energy independently
Sunday Adelaja
#96. Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it finds.
Saint Teresa Of Avila
#97. Soul is the invisible part of a living being that is immortal and breath is the evidence that the soul exists. The soul is what goes to Heaven when we no longer need our body here. We may be dogs, but we breathe, we bleed, and we love just like anybody else.
Kate McGahan
#98. There is a time when it is necessary to abandon the used clothes, which already have the shape of our body and to forget our paths, which takes us always to the same places. This is the time to cross the river: and if we don't dare to do it, we will have stayed, forever beneath ourselves
Fernando Pessoa
#99. Our body is a cenacle, a monstrance: through its crystal the world should see God.
Gianna Beretta Molla
#100. I believe the reason we sleep is not just to allow our body to rest but that it is to allow this inner wisdom to speak to us through symbols. This includes the body or somatic problems as well as psychological ones. Dreams and drawings are useful in diagnosing physical conditions.
Bernie Siegel
