Human Body Quotes - Page 2

• 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

  Inspiring, Spiritual, Get Well

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• The human body heals itself and nutrition provides the resources to accomplish the task.

  Roger Williams

  Health, Heal Itself, Medicine

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• The Church says: the body is a sin. Science says: the body is a machine. Advertising says: The body is a business. The Body says: I am a fiesta.

  Eduardo Galeano

  Philosophy, Medicine, Church

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• The human body has been designed to resist an infinite number of changes and attacks brought about by its environment. The secret of good health lies in successful adjustment to changing stresses on the body.

  Harry Johnson

  Stress, Lying, Health

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• The doctor of the future will give no medication, but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, diet and in the cause and prevention of disease. ~

  Thomas A. Edison

  Life, Motivational, Fitness

  Aphorism

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• The human body is constantly undergoing a process of decay and of reconstruction. First builded into the astral form in the womb of the mother, it is built up continually by the insetting of fresh materials. With every moment tiny molecules are passing away from it; with every moment tiny molecules are streaming into it.

  Annie Besant

  Mother, Passing Away, Molecules

  Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, Annie Besant, Mabel Collins, George Robert Stow Mead (1892). “Theosophical Review”

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• Body is the name of a stream of matter continuously changing.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Names, Body, Matter

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.713, Manonmani Publishers

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• Nothing records the effects of a sad life so graphically as the human body.

  Naguib Mahfouz

  Sad Life, Records, Body

  Naguib Mahfouz (2016). “Palace of Desire: The Cairo Trilogy”, p.139, Anchor

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• There are moments when the human body can overcome things you would never expect.

  Andres Iniesta

  Overcoming, Body, Moments

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Every single cell in the human body replaces itself over a period of seven years. That means there's not even the smallest part of you now that was part of you seven years ago.

  Steven Hall

  Inspirational, Spring, Mean

  Steven Hall (2005). “The Raw Shark Texts”, p.25, Canongate Books

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• 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

  Health, Exercise, Self

  Norman O. Brown (1990). “Love's Body, Reissue of 1966 edition”, p.155, Univ of California Press

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• Don't think you can...know you can! Your human body is the most impressive tool that you will ever own. Even if you can't control everything...you can always control something. Your body - Use it...Amuse it...because one day...you're going to lose it.

  Jeff Hardy

  Wrestling, Thinking, One Day

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• When the human body is put under exceptional strain, a range of dormant genes in the DNA are expressed and extraordinary physiological processes are activated.

  K. Anders Ericsson

  Dna, Work Ethic, Body

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• Life is about change, it never stops, it's moving and it's moving this human body inexorably towards its demise.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Moving, Demise, Body

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart. The instrument through which the dance speaks is also the instrument through which life is lived ... the human body.

  Martha Graham

  Dance, Heart, Fever

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• I acknowledge the privilege of being alive in a human body at this moment, endowed with senses, memories, emotions, thoughts, and the space of mind in its wisdom aspect.

  Alex Grey

  Memories, Philosophy, Medicine

  Alex Grey (2008). “Art Psalms”, p.126, North Atlantic Books

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• The human body is meant solely for service, never for indulgence.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Body, Indulgence, Humans

  Mahatma Gandhi (2011). “The Way to God: Selected Writings from Mahatma Gandhi”, North Atlantic Books

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• The body and mind are dependent.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Mind, Body, Dependent

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• Get rid of the bondage of body; we have become slaves to it and learnt to hug our chains and love our slavery; so much so that we long to perpetuate it, and go on with "body" "body" for ever. Do not cling to the idea of "body", do not look for a future existence in any way like this one; do not love or want the body, even of those dear to us.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Ideas, Long, Hug

  Swami Vivekananda (1964). “Complete Works”

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• The human body experiences a powerful gravitational pull in the direction of hope

  Norman Cousins

  Motivational, Powerful, Body

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• The moment I have realized God sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see God in him - that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspiring, Sitting, Body

  Swami Vivekananda, Swami Adiswarananda (2006). “Vivekananda, World Teacher: His Teachings on the Spiritual Unity of Humankind”, p.91, SkyLight Paths Publishing

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• When the forces that hold it together go away, the body must fall.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Fall, Going Away, Together

  Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Raja Yoga: Conquering the Internal Nature”, p.19, Advaita Ashrama

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• The human body represents to me the same universal innocence, timelessness and purity of all seed pods, suggesting the mother as well as the child, the parental as well as the descendant, conceived according to nature's longings.

  Ruth Bernhard

  Mother, Children, Body

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• We have to keep the body in good health; we have to take care of what we eat and drink, and what we do.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Body, Care, Drink

  Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Raja Yoga: Conquering the Internal Nature”, p.18, Advaita Ashrama

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• This idea of body is a simple superstition. It is superstition that makes us happy or unhappy. It is superstition caused by ignorance that makes us feel heat and cold, pain and pleasure.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Pain, Ignorance, Simple

  Swami Vivekananda (2012). “Raja Yoga (Annotated Edition)”, p.119, Jazzybee Verlag

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