Body Quotes

My body is a political battlefield.It is a place of war, of death and suffering, of triumph and victory, of damage and repair, of blood and tears and sweat.It is a place where memories go to find purpose for their existence.It is a place where humans cast all inhibitions aside to discover what exists at their very core.It is a place of growth wearing a mask of destruction.It is a challenge, not for the faint of heart, beckoning us to face it with eyes wide open.The only war is within. When you are ready to fight it, the field awaits.

~ Agnostic Zetetic

To her, it was like asking a butterfly what it remembered about being a caterpillar. She could fly now and nothing could touch her when she left the cocoon of her body behind at night.

~ Thomm Quackenbush

Let thy holy temple be thy body.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The most powerful and strongest part in your body is your 'brain'. It can fetch u anything.. Use it and Use it wisely.

~ Honeya

Cemeteries are full of unfulfilled dreams... countless echoes of 'could have' and 'should have'… countless books unwritten… countless songs unsung... I want to live my life in such a way that when my body is laid to rest, it will be a well needed rest from a life well lived, a song well sung, a book well written, opportunities well explored, and a love well expressed.

~ Steve Maraboli

[O]ur own bodies are changing every second. Yet we take the body to be our Self; and, speaking in terms of it, we say, “I am hungry” or “I am lame”; “I am black” or “I am white.” These are all just the conditions of the body. We touch the truth when we say, “My body aches,” implying the body belongs to us and that therefore we are not that. (87)

~ Swami Satchidananda

We must realize that we are all, like Dr. Faust, ready to accept the devil's inducements. The devil is in each one of us in the form of an ego that promises the fulfillment of desire on condition that we become subservient to its striving to dominate. The domination of the personality by the ego is a diabolical perversion of the nature of man. The ego was never intended to be the master of the body, but its loyal and obedient servant. The body, as opposed to the ego, desires pleasure, not power. Bodily pleasure is the source from which all our good feelings and good thinking stems. If the bodily pleasure of an individual is destroyed, he becomes an angry, frustrated, and hateful person. His thinking becomes distorted, and his creative potential is lost. He develops self-destructive attitudes.

~ Alexander Lowen

Time was not a line, but an awareness. I was no longer a body, but a series of pieces whistling as they bonded. I felt every cell within me. I could count them, name them, kill them, and resurrect them. Within the core, I was a tower made of fossil fragments. I could be disassembled and reassembled. If only someone knew the correct pressure point, I would turn into a pile of elements running off to find another bond, like seasonal farmhands journeying from East to West.

~ Jaroslav Kalfar

i have a body and I am grateful, as I find it to be a very useful instrument for expressing love, strength, flexibility, gracebut, I am not my body...

~ Kate Mullane Robertson

Sometimes I get mail for people who lived in my home before I did, and sometimes my own body seems like a home through which successive people have passed like tenants, leaving behind memories, habits, scars, skills, and other souvenirs.

~ Rebecca Solnit

To live out God’s plan for your life calls for you to discipline yourself…and your body. To push yourself. To deny yourself.

~ Elizabeth George

He drunkenly recognized that the lust was part of something bigger, of a craving to pursue pleasure unreasonably, beyond the right and wrong, to go as far as his body took him. In the body there is no absolute, or free, will, but the body is determined to desire this or that by a cause that is also determined by another, and this again by another, and so on to infinity.

~ Aleksandar Hemon

I hadn't even solved the mystery of my own body.

~ Benjamin Alire Sáenz

My body is a holy temple.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Choose the body to live in.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Your body is an intelligent organism, it knows how to heal itself.

~ Annie Wilson

Our bodies are our vehicles of life. They are ours to take care of. If we aren’t taking care of them, they show signs of stress and wear. If we are taking care of our bodies, they show signs of healing and resiliency. A healthy body is an inspired body, and an inspired body is a happy body.

~ Elaina Marie

Let your body move. It will give voice to a language that can heal.

~ Gina Greenlee

You have a great body. It is an intricate piece of technology and a sophisticated super-computer. It runs on peanuts and even regenerates itself. Your relationship with your body is one of the most important relationships you’ll ever have. And since repairs are expensive and spare parts are hard to come by, it pays to make that relationship good.

~ Steve Goodier

My body is like a Temple in Nepal. It is sacred, but has a lot of damage from the earthquake of my youth!

~ James Hauenstein

my poetry is merely a body.you are the soul in my words.

~ Sanober Khan

In some warped way, having an embalmed body with us made perfect sense.

~ Tahir Shah

The small launch bay was littered with debris. A powerful breeze tore at his black silk shirt as Kilroy made his way across it to the waiting shuttle, evoking a feeling like the fingers of fate were caressing his body. “The Hammer” stepped over the body of one of his fallen crew without a trace of care or concern. The air was rushing past him, like a wind, out into space through the wounds in the side of his ship. Fatigued and desperate, the Hammer was running out of options. His ship was a mess, holed in a dozen places, the life support systems failing. Weakened hull sections were collapsing in pressure bursts. The vibrations that shook the deck beneath him now were not from the engines that once drove her forward, but now from the explosions down below, tearing her apart.

~ Christina Engela

What if I told you, that consciousness is not in the body, body is embedded in the consciousness.

~ Prana Gogia

Our body talks to us, not in a language that you speak but the language that you feel

~ Harrish Sairaman

For the body tells all to him who knows the language, and doesn’t lie.

~ Kai Ashante Wilson

Body language has no translation.

~ Ljupka Cvetanova

Fie, fie upon her! There's language in her eye, her cheek, her lip, Nay, her foot speaks; her wanton spirits look out at every joint and motive of her body.

~ William Shakespeare

The person senses what it feels like to be free from inhibitions. At the same time he feels connected and integrated – with his body and, through his body, with his environment. He has a sense of well-being and inner peace. He gains the knowledge that the life of the body resides in its involuntary aspect. […] Unfortunately these beautiful feelings do not always hold up under the stress of daily living in our modern culture. The pace, the pressure and the philosophy of our times are antithetical to life.

~ Alexander Lowen

I don't sleep. I just let my body lie itself into numbness and lie to myself that I can't hear, see, or feel anything.

~ Will Advise

A pretty face and a beautiful body blind a man more quickly than any poker through the eyes.

~ Francine Rivers

The nation of my father is too strong for a man who cannot command even his own body.

~ Conn Iggulden

You cannot expect a man to love you, but not because of your body or physical construction. It is like giving a man the option between choosing you and a monkey.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

...for if a woman's body can attract the holy angels, how much more the unholy man.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Her body was a prison, her mind was a prison. Her memories were a prison. The people she loved. She couldn't get away from the hurt of them. She could leave Eric, walk out of her apartment, walk forever if she liked, but she couldn't escape what really hurt. Tonight even the sky felt like a prison.

~ Ann Brashares

The grass is not 'greener' on the other side – it is just another shade of green.

~ Annika Sorensen

Just as only one discordant note has the power to disturb an entire symphony, the accordance between a body and its soul can be a broken by only one discordant event. To ensure and maintain an optimal fit, one must deliberately and continuously choreograph the equilibrium of the body, mind, and soul.

~ Ina Catrinescu

All souls are sacred with a spirit and a body.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Always look within, to seek out the love and joy residing inside of you and then look to find your dark shadows falling behind you disappear.

~ Denis John George

Feeling good about yourself is the best sleeping pill of all.

~ Annika Sorensen