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Quotes About Body

Every experience I've had in my life is a resource in my body.
~ Anna Halprin
How right that the body changed over time, becoming a gallery of scars, a canvas of experience, a testament to life and one's capacity to endure it.
~ Janet Fitch
For every thought supported by feeling, there is a muscle change. Primary muscle patterns being the biological heritage of man, man's whole body records his emotional thinking.
~ Mabel Elsworth Todd
I personally think you can have a really rich and full life with no abs. Abs are for wimps.
~ Rachel McAdams
Life - a spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.
~ Ambrose Bierce
Your body is a vehicle of your emotions and a vehicle of feelings and a vehicle of whatever you need to get done in life. And you've got to take care of that vehicle.
~ Eva Longoria
You do not need to seek freedom in some distant land, for it exists within your own body, heart, mind, and soul.
~ B.K.S. Iyengar
The spirit is the life of the body seen from within, and the body the outward manifestation of the life of the spirit-the two being really one.
~ Carl Jung
You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.
~ Epictetus
There are two noble things in life: one to do charity and other to look after your body.
~ Fauja Singh
To lose our connection with the body is to become spiritually homeless. Without an anchor we float aimlessly, battered by the winds and waves of life
~ Anodea Judith
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
The body isn't the foundation of your health. The body is the physical manifestation of the sum of your life experiences.
~ Lissa Rankin
My understanding of life is very existential. I think that we are our bodies. There's nothing else, and when we die, that's it. No afterlife.
~ David Cronenberg
In middle life, the human back is spoiling for a technical knockout and will use the flimsiest excuse, even a sneeze, to fall apart.
~ E. B. White
The only crime I committed was being fat.
~ Jennifer Niven
Why should what i weigh affect other people? I mean, unless I'm sitting on them, who cares?
~ Jennifer Niven
We are all alone, trapped in these bodies and our own minds, and whatever company we have in this life is only fleeting and superficial.
~ Jennifer Niven
Then Jee started losing her mind. We are not guaranteed perfect sanity on this job. In fact, the recruiter warned me specifically about that two years ago, when I became a succubus. We get the perfect body, a fat salary, a credit card, and a place to live. If we have issues, that's what money is for—to pay for a shrink if we need one. Yeah, I can just see that first session. Hi, I work for hell, do you take Visa?
~ Jennifer Stevenson
I will love myself, and my body, for what it can do- because it is strong enough to lift, to walk, to ride a bicyle up a hill, to embrace the people I love and hold them fully, and to nurture a new life. I will love myself because I am sturdy. Because I did not -will not- break.
~ Jennifer Weiner
Regular women carry pictures of their babies, their husbands, their summer houses. Fat ladies carry pictures of themselves at their skinniest.
~ Jennifer Weiner
Her body is a city. Her heart is a large shady square, her fingers pedestrians, her hair the light of streetlamps, her knees two rows of buildings. She tries to give people footpaths. She tries to open up her cheeks and her towers. She didn't know streets hurt so much, not that there were so many streets in her to begin with. She wants to take her body on a stroll, out of her body, but she doesn't know where the key is.
~ Jenny Erpenbeck
Trina fans her armpits, "I'm sweating, I think I need more deodorant. Kitty, do I smell?
~ Jenny Han
I SAW THEIR STUNNING BODIES GO SLACK AND GET HAIR IN THE WRONG PLACES AND I VOWED I WOULD NOT PERMIT THAT TO HAPPEN TO ME.
~ Jenny Holzer