Hallow the body as a temple to comeliness and sanctify the heart as a sacrifice to love; love recompenses the adorers.
- Kahlil Gibran

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

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

The mind’s first step to self-awareness must be through the body.
- George Sheehan

You should pray for a sound mind in a sound body.
- Juvenal

Varicose veins are the result of an improper selection of grandparents.
- William Osler

But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable.
- E. M. Forster

How idiotic civilization is!  Why be given a body if you have to keep it shut up in a case like a rare, rare fiddle?
- Katherine Mansfield

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

Man is the sole animal whose nudity offends his own companions, and the only one who, in his natural actions, withdraws and hides himself from his own kind.
- Montaigne

Just as a man would not cherish living in a body other than his own, so do nations not like to live under other nations, however noble and great the latter may be.
- Mohandas Gandhi

In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Why should a man’s mind have been thrown into such close, sad, sensational, inexplicable relations with such a precarious object as his body?
- Thomas Hardy

We use our brains too little, and when we do, it is only to make excuses for our reflexes and our instincts.
- Martin H. Fischer

Every man is the builder of a Temple called his body, nor can he get off by hammering marble instead.
- Henry David Thoreau

Why do we alienate ourselves so much from our bodies?  It’s that big piece of machinery attached to your head.
- Carrie Latet

Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect, but of all human contemplations the most abhorrent is body without mind.
- Thomas Jefferson

The body never lies.
- Martha Graham

My skull, my eyes, my nose three times, my jaw, my shoulder, my chest, two fingers, a knee, everything from the top of my head to the bottom of my feet. [Listing what body parts he has broken].
- Jackie Chan

There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

My body could stand the crutches but my mind couldn’t stand the sideline.
- Michael Jordan

You know the definition of the perfectly designed machine…. The perfectly designed machine is one in which all its working parts wear out simultaneously.  I am that machine.
- Frederick Alexander Lindemann

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

I stand in awe of my body.
- Henry David Thoreau

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

The best and most efficient pharmacy is within your own system.
- Robert C. Peale

The body is your temple.  Keep it pure and clean for the soul to reside in.
- B.K.S. Iyengar

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

An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.
- Buddha

Love’s mysteries in souls do grow, But yet the body is his book.
- John Donne

You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.
- Mohandas Gandhi

Emotion always has its roots in the unconscious and manifests itself in the body.
- Irene Claremont

I love the body.  Flesh is so honest, and organs do not lie.
- Candea Core-Starke

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

A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.
- Mohandas Gandhi

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

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

Each body has its art.
- Gwendolyn Brooks

I don’t think that the flesh is necessarily treacherous, evil, bad. It is cantankerous, and it is independent. The idea of independence is the key. It really is like colonialism. The colonies suddenly decide that they can and should exist with their own personality and should detach from the control of the mother country. At first the colony is perceived as being treacherous. It’s a betrayal. Ultimately, it can be seen as the separation of a partner that could be very valuable as an equal rather than as something you dominate.
- David Cronenberg

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