Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotations on Body

I said to myself: “You mean all those people out there that I’ve been envying because they’re not afraid to move ahead with their lives have really been afraid? Why didn’t somebody tell me!?” I guess I never asked.
Susan Jeffers (1938–2012) American Psychologist, Self-Help Author

The positive effect of kindness on the immune system and on the increased production of serotonin in the brain has been proven in research studies. Serotonin is a naturally occurring substance in the body that makes us feel more comfortable, peaceful, and even blissful. In fact, the role of most anti-depressants is to stimulate the production of serotonin chemically, helping to ease depression. Research has shown that a simple act of kindness directed toward another improves the functioning of the immune system and stimulates the production of serotonin in both the recipient of the kindness and the person extending the kindness. Even more amazing is that persons observing the act of kindness have similar beneficial results. Imagine this! Kindness extended, received, or observed beneficially impacts the physical health and feelings of everyone involved!
Wayne Dyer (1940–2015) American Self-Help Author

Hide your body in the Big Dipper.
Zen Proverb Japanese School of Mahayana Buddhism

Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack. We give it orders which make no sense.
Henry Miller (1891–1980) American Novelist

If everybody feels fear when approaching something totally new in life, yet so many are out there “doing it” despite the fear, then we must conclude that fear is not the problem.
Susan Jeffers (1938–2012) American Psychologist, Self-Help Author

Our own theological Church, as we know, has scorned and vilified the body till it has seemed almost a reproach and a shame to have one, yet at the same time has credited it with the power to drag the soul to perdition.
Eliza Farnham (1815–64) American Reformer, Writer

A woman watches her body uneasily, as though it were an unreliable ally in the battle for love.
Leonard Cohen (1934–2016) Canadian Singer, Songwriter, Poet, Novelist

Animals, we have been told, are taught by their organs. Yes, I would add, and so are men, but men have this further advantage that they can also teach their organs in return.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) German Poet

Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–82) American Poet, Educator, Academic

He will be the slave of many masters who is his body’s slave.
Seneca the Younger (Lucius Annaeus Seneca) (c.4 BCE–65 CE) Roman Stoic Philosopher, Statesman, Tragedian

The face is the soul of the body.
Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951) Austrian-born British Philosopher

What is more important in life than our bodies or in the world than what we look like?
George Santayana (1863–1952) Spanish-American Poet, Philosopher

The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by loading honors on your head.
Jean Cocteau (1889–1963) French Poet, Playwright, Film Director

My body could stand the crutches but my mind couldn’t stand the sideline.
Michael Jordan (b.1963) American Sportsperson, Businessperson

I have always wanted to be somebody, but I see now I should have been more specific.
Lily Tomlin (b.1939) American Comedy Actress

The body of man is a machine which winds its own springs.
Julien Offray de La Mettrie (1709–51) French Physician, Philosopher

Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you’re a man, you take it.
Malcolm X (1925–65) American Civil Rights Leader

‘Tis not enough to help the feeble up, but to support him after.
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) British Playwright

Is that what I want? The model family, two plus two in an easy home assembly kit? I don’t want a model, I want the full-scale original. I don’t want to reproduce, I want to make something entirely new.
Jeanette Winterson (b.1959) English Novelist, Journalist

Nobody sees a flower—really—it is so small it takes time—we haven’t time—and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time.
Georgia O’Keeffe (1887–1986) American Painter

Why do we spend years using up our bodies to nurture our minds with experience and find our minds turning then to our exhausted bodies for solace?
Unknown

Bless that which you want. If you see a person with a beautiful home, bless that person and bless that home. If you see a person with a beautiful car, bless that person and bless that car. If you see a person with a loving family, bless that person and bless that family. If you see a person with a beautiful body, bless that person and bless their body.
T. Harv Eker (b.1954) American Motivational Speaker, Lecturer, Author

The body is a community made up of its innumerable cells or inhabitants.
Thomas Edison (1847–1931) American Inventor, Scientist, Entrepreneur

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
Seneca the Younger (Lucius Annaeus Seneca) (c.4 BCE–65 CE) Roman Stoic Philosopher, Statesman, Tragedian

What was my body to me? A kind of flunkey in my service. Let but my anger wax hot, my love grow exalted, my hatred collect in me, and that boasted solidarity between me and my body was gone.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1900–44) French Novelist, Aviator

It is so much more difficult to live with one’s body than with one’s soul. One’s body is so much more exacting: what it won’t have it won’t have, and nothing can make bitter into sweet.
D. H. Lawrence (1885–1930) English Novelist, Playwright, Poet, Essayist, Literary Critic

The human body is not a thing or substance, given, but a continuous creation. The human body is an energy system which is never a complete structure; never static; is in perpetual inner self-construction and self-destruction; we destroy in order to make it new.
Norman O. Brown (1913–2002) American Philosopher

Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you? If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.
The Holy Bible Scripture in the Christian Faith

Peter Keating: “Do you always have to have a purpose? Do you always have to be so damn serious? Can’t you ever do things without reason, just like everybody else? You’re so serious, so old. Everything’s important with you. Everything’s great, significant in some way, every minute, even when you keep still. Can’t you ever be comfortable—and unimportant?”
Howard Roark: “No”.
Ayn Rand (1905–82) Russian-born American Novelist, Philosopher

I promise to keep on living as though I expected to live forever. Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old only by deserting their ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up interest wrinkles the soul.
Douglas MacArthur (1880–1964) American Military Leader

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