Body Quotes

When we give ourselves the chance to let go of all our tension, the body's natural capacity to heal itself can begin to work.

~ Nhat Hanh

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

God gave me a great body and it's my duty to take care of my physical temple.

~ Jean-Claude Van Damme

So, if I give any credit, besides giving all credit to God, for being totally healthy, it's just my workout and how much torture I put my body through in the offseason.

~ Ray Lewis

No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.

~ Franklin D. Roosevelt

If there's any object in human experience that's a precedent for what a computer should be like, it's a musical instrument: a device where you can explore a huge range of possibilities through an interface that connects your mind and your body, allowing you to be emotionally authentic and expressive.

~ Jaron Lanier

Masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice.

~ Virginia Woolf

Californians are people who insist on growing their own vegetables, but they won't dig up the pretty lawn, won't plant anything for fear of getting dirty, and they use fragrant bath salts from The Body Shop instead of smelly compost.

~ P. J. O'rourke

Hindered by asthma since I was six weeks old, I had begun experimenting with my diet and discovered a disquieting correlation. When I stopped eating the normal American diet of sugar, fats, alcohol, chemicals, and additives, I felt better. I could breathe freely. When I tried to sneak in a hamburger and a Coke, my body rebelled.

~ Paul Hawken

You need a good, healthy diet - it's about finding out what your body needs. Sugar is a disaster for skin, as is white flour.

~ Thandie Newton

Diet is weird. It's elusive. I just try to listen to my body.

~ Laura Dern

If I could have a Barbie body, which has no cellulite, I totally would. I would like to have a flatter stomach, but that won't happen either. That is never going to happen. No matter how much weight I lose, my stomach, below the belly button, always pooches out.

~ Holly Madison

Sodium is an important mineral that is essential for proper functioning of the human body - however, the American diet contains dangerously high amounts of sodium, almost 80 percent of which comes from processed and restaurant foods.

~ Joel Fuhrman

The human body is a miraculous self-healing machine, but those self-repair systems require a nutrient-dense diet.

~ Joel Fuhrman

I think just drinking juice is too extreme for a diet. Your body needs more than juice, so I think it's a very hard thing to do - very challenging and probably very unhealthy for your body. You can't get everything you need from a juice. I love juice because it can provide you with nutrients - but drink it alongside your diet!

~ Victoria Pendleton

I eat a lot more now than I ever used to. I have taken a real interest in nutrition and believe in the difference that makes when fueling your body correctly. That means never skipping a meal and making sure that my diet supports my training needs.

~ Lizzie Armitstead

Not everything that lowers HDL is bad for you. If you change from a high-fat, high-cholesterol diet to a healthy low-fat, low-cholesterol diet, your HDL levels may stay the same or even decrease because there is less need for it. When you have less garbage, you need fewer garbage trucks to remove it, so your body may make less HDL.

~ Dean Ornish

For the vast majority of those who are obese - those with a Body Mass Index over 30 - their size is their choice. They choose to take in more calories than they burn. They choose to take in high fat calories over low-fat ones. They choose to fad diet, if they choose to diet at all.

~ John Ridley

I'm naturally a muscular gal with some curves, so eating a Mediterranean diet makes my body happy.

~ Debi Mazar

I've never had body issues, I've never had an eating disorder. I've never had to go on a diet and that's because of Weight Watchers.

~ Ginnifer Goodwin

But I don't do the diet thing anymore. I'm a big believer in feeding your body what it needs. Deny yourself something and you're going to end up shoving your face full of it.

~ Ashley Greene

I eat a balanced diet. The secret is to watch your portions, but I also work out a lot. Working out a lot isn't necessary, but I am very active, and my body can endure intense workouts.

~ Adriana Lima

A diet that is high in fat, sugar and salt makes it really hard for a body to function efficiently.

~ Tamra Davis

I don't have a problem with my body. I don't diet, and I'm not hiding anything. I'm not going to be the subject of a movie of the week 10 years from now.

~ Lara Flynn Boyle

If you continually diet, you are putting your body in a quasi-famine situation. It slows your metabolism down and breaks the thermostat. Diets don't work. They don't help you understand why you're eating more than your body wanted in the first place.

~ Susie Orbach

My biggest regret is putting my body through fad diets - Atkins, cleanses, the hCG diet.

~ Jennie Garth

'Immortals' was very much a martial arts based training program - a lot of body weight stuff, very little in the way of actually lifting heavy weights, and a very, very low calorie diet.

~ Henry Cavill

I would never recommend going on a crash diet. Drastically reducing your calorie intake can cause numerous problems, and your body will store fat because you have sent it into starvation mode. I eat every two hours to maintain my blood sugar levels.

~ Ranveer Singh

The idea behind diet confusion is, you have to keep your body off-kilter. So by changing the type of foods that you eat, the frequency of the foods that you eat, you can keep your metabolism revved up.

~ Ian K. Smith

Diseases happen in acidic environments, so it's very important to keep your body alkaline. Keeping a diet high in leafy greens, spring water, fresh air, raw almonds, lemons, grapefruits, and warm water with juice from half a lemon helps lower acidity levels.

~ Valentina Zelyaeva

I used to say that you'll have 10 IP address on your body... and it looks like that's going to happen through medical monitoring.

~ Eric Schmidt

The medical nanobots in my novel 'Small Miracles' tap the energy sources that the patient's own body provides. That is, they can metabolize glycerol and glucose, just as the cells in our bodies do.

~ Edward M. Lerner

A board constituted as the board of Sydney Hospital is constituted is not a suitable body to have control of an institute of medical research.

~ John Eccles

Sometime they don't let you know that they know that they don't know everything, but the core of the medical approach is that you try to identify pathologies, which are subsystems within the human body or the larger system that are having undesirable consequences.

~ Guy Burgess

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

The thing is, when I feel like I have to lose weight, the opposite happens. I remember stuffing loads of chocolate on the plane to the shoot, and I thought, 'Why don't you have the courage to show up in a body that's natural, not overly worked out?'

~ Geri Halliwell

Going to the gym is great for your body, but it's also great for your mind.

~ Rory Mcilroy

When you take the time to cleanse your physical body of accumulated stress and toxicity, you are rewarded with increased vitality and optimal health.

~ Debbie Ford

Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.

~ Joseph Addison

Your body hears everything your mind says.

~ Naomi Judd