Profoundly inspirational body quotes will challenge the way you think, and help guide you through any life experience.
Famous Body Quotes
Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul. — Oscar Wilde
Every cell in your body is eavesdropping on your thoughts. — Deepak Chopra
You are imperfect, permanently and inevitably flawed. And you are beautiful. — Amy Bloom
Your emotions are your inner guidance system. — They alone will let you know whether you are living in an environment of biochemical health or in an environment of biochemical distress. — Understanding how your thoughts and your emotions affect every single hormone and cell in your body, and knowing how to change them in a way that is health-enhancing, gives you access to the most powerful and empowering health-creating secret on earth. — Christiane Northrup
My primary process of perceiving is muscular and visual. — Albert Einstein
One day I had to sit down with myself and decide that I loved myself no matter what my body looked like and what other people thought about my body. — Gabourey Sidibe
Stay centered, do not overstretch. — Extend from your center, return to your center. — Buddha/Master Mian
You have to stand up and say, There’s nothing wrong with me or my shape or who I am; you’re the one with the problem. — Jennifer Lopez
Lighten up on yourself. No one is perfect. Gently accept your humanness. — Deborah Day
If you’re good to your body, your body’s good to you. — Jermain Defoe
Burn all the maps to your body. I’m not here of my own choosing. — Richard Brautigan
Within my body are all the sacred places of the world, and the most profound pilgrimage I can ever make is within my own body. — Saraha
Take care of your body with steadfast fidelity. The soul must see through these eyes alone, and if they are dim, the whole world is clouded. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
No diet can substitute for the wisdom of your body. — Brooke Castillo
Man has no Body distinct from his Soul for that called Body is a portion of Soul discerned by the five Senses… — William Blake
Emotional release and muscular release are interdependent – one does not occur without the other. — Elaine Mayland
You can heal your body with food. — Stacy Keibler
Your body will never be familiar. — Leonard Cohen
I feel like I’ve set the example for loving your body no matter what size it is, but I also can set the example for being healthy as well. — Queen Latifah
The deeper we live the life of our bodies, the deeper is the upwelling of love. — Stanley Keleman
When you stand with your two feet on the ground, you will always keep your balance. — Lao Tzu
I finally realized that being grateful to my body was key to giving more love to myself. — Oprah Winfrey
Now I know you should listen to what your body is telling you. — Delta Goodrem
Intelligence is present everywhere in our bodies . . . our own inner intelligence is far superior to any we can try to substitute from the outside. — Deepak Chopra
I accept my body. I accept how I am and make the best of what I am given. — Kate Winslet
Every thought you have affects everything in your body. — Wayne Dyer
It is in your act that you exist, not in your body. Your act is yourself, and there is no other you. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Trying out new ways of using your body in handling various situations breaks you free from old ways of thinking and being. — Mirka Knaster
The body never lies. — Martha Graham
Your soul isn’t in your body; your body is in your soul! — Alan Watts
Polish the heart, free the six senses and let them function without obstruction, and your entire body will glow. — Morihei Ueshiba
Your body is the house you live in. If you destroy it…you have to leave! — Joyce Meyer
If you are centered, you can move freely. — Morihei Ueshiba
Whether you’re tall or shorter, or a little bigger, more curves, skinny you just have to be proud of what you have, and everyone is beautiful. — Caroline Wozniacki
The body must be nourished, physically, emotionally and spiritually. We’re spiritually starved in this culture not underfed but undernourished. — Carol Hornig
Here in this body are the sacred rivers: here are the sun and moon as well as all the pilgrimage places…I have not encountered another temple as blissful as my own body. — Saraha
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, not to worry about the future, nor to anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly. — Buddha
In our bodies, in this moment, there live the seed impulses of the change and spiritual growth we seek, and to awaken them we must bring our awareness into the body, into the here and now. — Pat Ogden
Your body is your home. Treat it with love and respect. — Jasmin Terrany
What daily healthy intake are you doing for your body? I personally like Shakeology. — Brett Hoebel
It’s your body. Tell it what to do. — Chris Powell
Movement is a medicine for creating change in a person’s physical, emotional, and mental states. — Carol Welch
Think with the whole body. — Taisen Deshimaru
There is deep wisdom within our very flesh, if we can only come to our senses and feel it. — Elizabeth A. Behnke
I take the responsibility of choosing seriously because it becomes an indelible part of your body of work. Something has to sing to me. — Mira Sorvino
It’s not your body, it’s not your choice, because you got that from God. He gave that to you. — Norma McCorvey
When you go out on the mound and you’re confident in your body, you feel you can do anything. — Cole Hamels
You are a soul that is temporarily utilizing your body. — Gary Zukav
Never let an old person live in your body. — Michael Savage
Being in touch with our bodies, or more accurately, being our bodies, is how we know what is true. — Harriet Goldhor Lerner
You totally value and respect your body as you get older. — Jenny McCarthy
I stand in awe of my body. — Henry David Thoreau
If you talk to your body, it will listen. — Bernie Siegel
It is amazing how many hints and guides and intuitions for living come to the sensitive person who has ears to hear what his body is saying. — Rollo May
For every thought supported by feeling, there is a muscle change. Primary muscle patterns being the biological heritage of man, man’s whole body records his emotional thinking. Mabel Ellsworth Todd
There’s a world of difference between that information to which we now presumably have access by way of computers, libraries, and the rest of it, great stockpiles of data, and the knowledge that people have in their bones by which they do good work and live good lives. — Wendell Berry
It’s ok to love your body the way it is. — Demi Lovato
If you put that straight jacket on me, I am going to pull your endocrine system out of your body. — Gary Busey
Your body is a temple, but only if you treat it as one. — Astrid Alauda
Who owns your body? You or the state? — Martha Plimpton
Your body hears everything your mind says. — Naomi Judd
When you get into the body, it keeps you true. — Jennifer Reich
To all girls with butts, boobs, hips and a waist, put on a bikini, put it on and stay strong. — Jennifer Love Hewitt
Now, if some panic hits me, you have to sort of be friends with your body, it’s like your body will work against you. — Ellie Goulding
Your body will tell you what it needs. — Jennifer Aniston
Diets are the best way of confusing your metabolism for the rest of your life. Just be you & get on with it. — Emma Thompson
You don’t throw your life away Going Inside You get to know who’s watching you And besides you resides in your body — John Frusciante
Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain. — Carl G. Jung
A healthy body means a healthy mind. You get your heart rate up, and you get the blood flowing through your body to your brain. Look at Albert Einstein. He rode a bicycle. He was also an early student of Jazzercise. You never saw Einstein lift his shirt, but he had a six-pack under there. — Steve Carell
John Calhoun, if you secede from my nation I will secede your head from the rest of your body. — Andrew Jackson
Complete health and awakening are really the same. — Tarthang Tulka
Our body is precious. — It is our vehicle for awakening. — Treat it with care. — Buddha
The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, in diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease. — Thomas Edison
Being comfortable in your own skin is the spirit of rock and roll and, really, the spirit of cool. — A.D. Aliwat
Each individual woman’s body demands to be accepted on its own terms. — Gloria Steinem
The body is a multilingual being It speaks through its color and its temperature, the flush of recognition, the glow of love, the ash of pain, the heat of arousal, the coldness of nonconviction. . . . It speaks through the leaping of the heart, the falling of the spirits, the pit at the center, and rising hope. — Clarissa Pinkola Estés
The potential of your body is endless. — Thierry Mugler
To connect with our bodies is to learn to trust ourselves, and from that comes power. — Mirka Knaster
If we’re operating on automatic pilot…we are not sensitive to how we’re being influenced by what we eat, where we live, the way we work, and our actions, thoughts, and emotions. — When we’re not aware of these connections, we also remain baffled why we’re sick, tense, in chronic pain, or depressed. — Mirka Knaster
To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself. — Simone De Beauvoir
The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well. — Hippocrates
Ultimately, we become aware of most of what is going on within us mainly through the muscles. — Moshe Feldenkrais
Your body is just a body. And just a body is already so very much. — Anne-Sophie Reinhardt
The body always leads us home if we can simply learn to trust sensation and stay with it long enough for it to reveal appropriate action, movement, insight, or feeling. — Pat Ogden
Dance first. Think later. It’s the natural order. — Samuel Beckett
To love yourself as you are is a miracle, and to see yourself is to have found yourself, for now. And now is all we have, and love is who we are. — Anne Lamott
Great ideas originate in the muscles. — Thomas Edison
How I feel about myself is more important than how I look. Feeling confident, being comfortable in your skin that’s what really makes you beautiful. — Bobbi Brown
Love your body. Exercise for 10-15 minutes daily. — Lailah Gifty Akita
Our own body is the best health system we have–if we know how to listen to it. — Christiane Northrup
Your body has such a memory. — Kristanna Loken
The human body is the best work of art. — Jess C. Scott
Take care of your body. It’s the only place you have to live. — Jim Rohn
