Enlighten the people, generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like spirits at the dawn of day.

Thomas Jefferson
7,252

The sovereign invigorator of the body is exercise, and of all the exercises walking is the best.

Thomas Jefferson
7,179

It is confidence in our bodies, minds and spirits that allows us to keep looking for new adventures, new directions to grow in, and new lessons to learn - which is what life is all about.

Oprah Winfrey
6,167

I finally realized that being grateful to my body was key to giving more love to myself.

Oprah Winfrey
6,129

He who loves the world as his body may be entrusted with the empire.

Lao tzu
5,544

Our bodies are our gardens to which our wills are gardeners.

William Shakespeare
5,174

Choose rather to be strong of soul than strong of body.

Pythagoras
2,875

A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world.

John Locke
2,558

The body pays for a slip of the foot, and gold pays for a slip of the tongue.

Malaysian Proverb
1,657

Be sure that it is not you that is mortal, but only your body. For that man whom your outward form reveals is not yourself; the spirit is the true self, not that physical figure which and be pointed out by your finger.

Cicero
407

There is but one temple in the universe and that is the body of man.

Novalis
376

I stand in awe of my body.

Henry David Thoreau
336

As for the pyramids, there is nothing to wonder at in them so much as the fact that so many men could be found degraded enough to spend their lives constructing a tomb for some ambitious booby, whom it would have been wiser and manlier to have drowned in the Nile, and then given his body to the dogs.

Henry David Thoreau
335

Every man is the builder of a temple called his body.

Henry David Thoreau
334

Each body has its art...

Gwendolyn Brooks
300

But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable.

E. M. Forster
292

It's also helpful to realize that this very body that we have, that's sitting right here right now... with its aches and it pleasures... is exactly what we need to be fully human, fully awake, fully alive.

Pema Chodron
281

Body, remember not only how much you were loved Not only the beds you lay on, But also those desires glowing openly In eyes that looked at you Trembling for you in voices.

Constantine Peter Cavafy
277

The body is a sacred garment.

Martha Graham
274

Oh, darling, let your body in, let it tie you in, in comfort.

Anne Sexton
258

If any thing is sacred the human body is sacred.

Walt Whitman
228

The thing I like about my body is that it's strong. I can move furniture around my apartment. I can ride my horse... I can play basketball. It's a well functioning machine.

Cindy Crawford
222

His mouth is for export and his head has no entrance.

Douglas Feaver
220

I'm not only my spirit buy my body, and who can decide how much I, my individual self, am conditioned by the accident of my body? Would Byron have been Byron but for his club foot, or Dostoyevsky Dostoyevsky without his epilepsy?

W. Somerset Maugham
216

There is one body that knows more than anybody, and that is everybody.

Charles M. De Talleyrand
215

To me style is just the outside of content, and content the inside of style, like the outside and the inside of the human body. Both go together, they can't be separated.

Jean luc Godard
210

Each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms.

Gloria Steinem
207

I am convinced that life in a physical body is meant to be an ecstatic experience.

Shakti Gawain
203

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
197

The body is shaped, disciplined, honored, and in time, trusted.

Martha Graham
196

To the body and mind which have been cramped by noxious work or company, nature is medicinal and restores their tone.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
196

You have two hemispheres in your brain - a left and a right side. The left side controls the right side of your body and right controls the left half. It's a fact. Therefore, left-handers are the only people in their right minds.

Bill Lee
187

Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack.

Henry Miller
183

All we actually have is our body and its muscles that allow us to be under our own power.

Allegra Kent
176

The body says what words cannot.

Martha Graham
161

A healthy mind in a healthy body.

Juvenal
152

Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing - peace is the measure.

George Melton
148

The mind's first step to self-awareness must be through the body.

George Sheehan
147

Safeguard the health both of body and soul.

Cleobulus
142

Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.

Marilyn Ferguson
142

The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation.

George Santayana
137

Our bodies communicate to us clearly and specifically, if we are willing to listen to them.

Shakti Gawain
135

I live in company with a body, a silent companion, exacting and eternal.

Eugene Delacroix
105

Hide your body in the Big Dipper.

Zen Proverb
53