Yet this is health:? To have a body functioning so perfectly that when its few simple needs are met it never calls attention to its own existence. ~Bertha Stuart Dyment


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


We don't stop at our skin. ~Dolores Krieger; Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine


The word arse is as much god as the word face. It must be so; otherwise you cut off your god at the waist. ~D.H. Lawrence


The human body is a machine which winds its own springs. ~Julien Offroy de la Mettrie; L'Homme Machine


The ear tends to be lazy; craves the familiar; and is shocked by the unexpected:? the eye; on the other hand; tends to be impatient; craves the novel and is bored by repetition. ~W.H. Auden; The Dyer's Hand


The body is your temple. Keep it pure and clean for the soul to reside in. ~B.K.S. Iyengar; Yoga: The Path To Holistic Health


The body is a big sagacity; a plurality with one sense; a war and a peace; a flock and a shepherd. ~Friedrich Nietzsche


Sometimes your body is smarter than you are. ~Author Unknown


Scars are tattoos with better stories. ~From a Toyota advertisement in Sports Illustrated magazine; 3 June 2002


Our bodies are apt to be our autobiographies. ~Frank Gillette Burgess


Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs. ~Aldous Huxley


It is in moments of illness that we are compelled to recognize that we live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom; whole worlds apart; who has no knowledge of us and by whom it is impossible to make ourselves understood:? our body. ~Marcel Proust


If the mind; that rules the body; ever so far forgets itself as to trample on its slave; the slave is never generous enough to forgive the injury; but will rise and smite the oppressor. ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


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


Good for the body is the work of the body; good for the soul the work of the soul; and good for either the work of the other. ~Henry David Thoreau


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


Blood is that fragile scarlet tree we carry within us. ~Osbert Sitwell


A trembling in the bones may carry a more convincing testimony than the dry documented deductions of the brain. ~Llewelyn Powers


Your body is a temple; but only if you treat it as one. ~Astrid Alauda


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


What we feel and think and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and viscera. ~Aldous Huxley


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


The mind can cook up very subtle syndromes to throw at our bodies. ~Astrid Alauda


The heart is not simply suspended in a body but in a culture; a place; a time. ~Mimi Guarneri; The Heart Speaks: A Cardiologist Reveals the Secret Language of Healing


The body too has its rights; and it will have them:? they cannot be trampled on without peril. The body ought to be the soul's best friend. Many good men however have neglected to make it such:? so it has become a fiend and has plagued them. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare; Guesses at Truth; by Two Brothers; 1827


The body is but a pair of pincers set over a bellows and a stew pan and the whole fixed upon stilts. ~Samuel Butler; Notebooks


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


Some people have a foolish way of not minding; or pretending not to mind; what they eat. For my part; I mind my belly very studiously; and very carefully; for I look upon it; that he who does not mind his belly will hardly mind anything else. ~Samuel Johnson


Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack. We give it orders which make no sense. ~Henry Miller


"Most guys aren't that picky. They may have quicker reflexes around large breasts; but they need more to keep them interested. We know plenty of women whose sex appeal makes their breasts exactly the right size. ~From ""The Playboy Advisor;"" Playboy magazine; March 2004; in answer to the question; ""If you have small breasts; how do you make yourself look sexy?? Most guys want girls with large breasts."""





Man has made many machines; complex and cunning; but which of them indeed rivals the workings of his heart?? ~Pablo Casals


In vain we shall penetrate more and more deeply the secrets of the structure of the human body; we shall not dupe nature; we shall die as usual. ~Bernard Le Bovier de Fontanelle


If the body be feeble; the mind will not be strong. ~Thomas Jefferson


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; Bliss and Other Stories


Flesh goes on pleasuring us; and humiliating us; right to the end. ~Mignon McLaughlin; The Second Neurotic's Notebook; 1966


Emotion always has its roots in the unconscious and manifests itself in the body. ~Irene Claremont de Castillejo


Beyond my body my veins are invisible. ~Antonio Porchia; Voces; 1943; translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin


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


Why do we pay for psychotherapy when massages cost half as much?? ~Jason Love


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


To keep the body in good health is a duty... otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear. ~Buddha


The human body is the only machine for which there are no spare parts. ~Hermann M. Biggs


The first idea that the child must acquire; in order to be actively disciplined; is that of the difference between good and evil; and the task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity. ~Maria Montessori


The body never lies. ~Martha Graham


The body is a bundle of careful compromises. ~Randolph Nesse and George Williams; Why We Get Sick


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


Some patients I see are actually draining into their bodies the diseased thoughts of their minds. ~Zacharty Bercovitz


Our bodies are our gardens - our wills are our gardeners. ~William Shakespeare


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


Make your feet your friend. ~J.M. Barrie


If your inner energy is misdirected; so will your whole life be. ~C.Astrid Weber


"I use the word ""fat.""? I use that word because that's what people are: they're fat. They're not bulky; they're not large; chunky; hefty or plump. And they're not big-boned. Dinosaurs were big-boned. These people are not overweight: this term somehow implies there is some correct weight. There is no correct weight. Heavy is also a misleading term. An aircraft carrier is heavy; it's not fat. Only people are fat; and that's what fat people are!? They're fat!? ~George Carlin"


Hormones; vitamines; stimulants and depressives are oils upon the creaky machinery of life. Principal item; however; is the machinery. ~Martin H. Fischer


Few of us have lost our minds; but most of us have long ago lost our bodies. ~Ken Wilbur


Body and mind; like man and wife; do not always agree to die together. ~Charles Caleb Colton


A woman is as young as her knees. ~Mary Quant