If the body be feeble, the mind will not be strong. – Thomas Jefferson
Hormones, vitamines, stimulants and depressives are oils upon the creaky machinery of life. Principal item, however, is the machinery. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)
Make your feet your friend. – J.M. Barrie
There is a wisdom in the body that is older and more reliable than clocks and calendars. – John Harold Johnson
There is but one temple in this Universe: The Body. We speak to God whenever we lay our hands upon it. – Thomas Carlyle
Your body is a flower that life let bloom…. – Ilchi Lee
Your body is a beautiful manifestation powered by spirit. – Mike Dolan, @HawaiianLife
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
Be strong then, and enter into your own body; there you have a solid place for your feet. – Kabir
Sometimes your body is smarter than you are. – Author Unknown
What the mind has forgotten, the body remembers long after. – Lilias Folan
The body is an instrument which only gives off music when it is used as a body. – Anaïs Nin
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
A woman is as young as her knees. – Mary Quant
The body is not a permanent dwelling, but a sort of inn which is to be left behind when one perceives that one is a burden to the host. – Seneca
The fact that the mind rules the body is, in spite of its neglect by biology and medicine, the most fundamental fact which we know about the process of life. – Franz Alexander
Our body is a machine for living. It is geared towards it; it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself; it will be more effective than if you paralyze it by encumbering it with remedies. – Leo Tolstoy
Sweat your prayers, dance your pain, and move on. – Gabrielle Roth
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
The human body is the only machine for which there are no spare parts. – Hermann M. Biggs