Human Body Quotes

• The human body is the most complex system ever created. The more we learn about it, the more appreciation we have about what a rich system it is.

  Bill Gates

  Appreciation, Body, Rich

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• Because the beauty of the human body is that it hasn't a single muscle which doesn't serve its purpose; that there's not a line wasted; that every detail of it fits one idea, the idea of a man and the life of a man.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Ostriches, Ideas

  Ayn Rand (2005). “The Fountainhead”, p.158, Penguin

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• Just one living cell in the human body is, more complex than New York City.

  Linus Pauling

  New York, Cells, Cities

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• It's incredible how the human body is. That it could do so much. That it can go beyond the everydayness of life; That it can be extraordinary and powerful, and harbor a spirit of hope and pure will.

  Lynne Cox

  Powerful, Body, Spirit

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• Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.

  Jim Rohn

  Life, Motivational, Inspiring

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Jul 30, 2016

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• The human body is first and foremost a mirror to the soul and its greatest beauty comes from that.

  Auguste Rodin

  Photography, Mirrors, Soul

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• The human body is the only machine for which there are no spare parts.

  Hermann Biggs

  Fitness Motivational, Machines, Body

  Radio Talk (quoted in Doctor's Legacy)

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• The human body essentially recreates itself every six months. Nearly every cell of hair and skin and bone dies and another is directed to its former place. You are not who you were last November.

  Donald Miller

  Cells, Hair, Skins

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• God wisely designed the human body so that we can neither pat our own backs nor kick ourselves too easily. The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

  Walt Disney

  Unique, Body, Like You

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• The human body is river of intelligence, energy and information that is constantly renewing itself in every second of its existence.

  Deepak Chopra

  Learning, Rivers, Energy

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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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• The body says what words cannot.

  Martha Graham

  Dance, Photography, Get Well

  "Martha Graham Reflects on Her Art and a Life in Dance". archive.nytimes.com. March 31, 1985.

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• If any thing is sacred, the human body is sacred.

  Walt Whitman

  Inspiring, Sacred Art, Leaves Of Grass

  1855 Leaves of Grass, 'Children of Adam', 'I Sing the Body Electric', section 8.

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• The human body is not a thing or a substance, given, but a continuous creation.

  Norman O. Brown

  Substance, Body, Self Destruction

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

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• The greatest force in the human body is the natural drive of the body to heal itself - but that force in not independent of the belief system. Everything begins with belief. What we believe is the most powerful option of all.

  Norman Cousins

  Powerful, Believe, Independent

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• The human body is the best picture of the human soul.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Fitness, Communication, Philosophical

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (2010). “Philosophical Investigations”, p.131, John Wiley & Sons

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• There is a system and a flow and an organization to the structure of the universe. Just like there's a system and a flow and an organization to the human body, to atomic structures, to the elements.

  Frederick Lenz

  Organization, Elements, Body

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• The human body is an amazing organism. It can go from dead tired to completely alert in a terrified blink.

  Ilona Andrews

  Tired, Body, Blink

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• Attention to the human body brings healing and regeneration. Through awareness of the body we remember who we really are.

  Jack Kornfield

  Philosophy, Healing, Medicine

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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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• I am a spiritual person living in a human body, not a human body with a spirit.

  Bob Proctor

  Spiritual, Body, Humans

  FaceBook post by Bob Proctor from Dec 23, 2012

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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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• 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 something that I truly love, above all else.

  Giorgio Armani

  Body, Humans

  Interview with Daniela Morera, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 21, 2008.

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• 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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