Body

There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.

—Friedrich Nietzsche

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

—Aldous Huxley

Our bodies are apt to be our autobiographies.

—Frank Gelett Burgess

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

—Llewelyn Powys

We cannot imprison the mind in the brain. The mind is in every cell of our body and also extends into the whole universe.

—Deepak Chopra

I see my body as an instrument, rather than an ornament.

—Alanis Morissette

The sun shines not on us but in us. The rivers flow not past but through us, thrilling, tingling, vibrating every fiber and cell of the substance of our bodies, making them glide and sing.

—John Muir

As we grow older, our bodies get shorter and our anecdotes longer.

—Robert Quillen

I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That's deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas?

—Jean Kerr

We have so many words for states of mind, and so few for the states of the body.

—Jeanne Moreau

If anything is sacred, the human body is sacred.

—Walt Whitman

It is so much more difficult to live with one's body than with one's soul. One's body is so much more exacting: what it won't have, it won't have, and nothing can make bitter into sweet.

—D. H. Lawrence

The body has its own way of knowing, a knowing that has little to do with logic, and much to do with truth; little to do with control, and much to do with acceptance; little to do with division and analysis, and much to do with union.

—Marilyn Sewell

I had to face the facts; I was pear-shaped. I was a bit depressed because I hate pears. Especially their shape.

—Charlotte Bingham