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“Around 1995, after almost two decades of yo-yoing, I finally realized that being grateful for my body, whatever shape it was in, was the key to giving more love to myself.” Oprah Winfrey, What I Know For Sure
“Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul.” Mahatma Gandhi, The Story of my Experiments with Truth
“The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.” Carl Sagan, Cosmos
“To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in one’s self.” Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex
“Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.” Plato, The Republic
“Our bodies are gardens, to the which our wills are gardeners;” William Shakespeare, Othello
“You can kill the body, Mr. Hands, but not the spirit;” Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island
“Medicine is the restoration of discordant elements; sickness is the discord of the elements infused into the living body.” Leonardo da Vinci, The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci
“whatever happens to your body, your soul will survive, untouched” J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
“At twelve I looked like a girl of seventeen. My body was developed and shapely.” Marilyn Monroe, My Story
“A feeble body makes a feeble mind.” Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile, or On Education
“She was incomprehensible, for, in her, soul and spirit were one—the beauty of her body was the essence of her soul.” F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned
“The soul aids the body, and at certain moments, raises it. It is the only bird which bears up its own cage.” Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
“He said, in this one part, that a woman's body is like a violin and all, and that it takes a terrific musician to play it right.” J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
“When you have a well-developed body and you're confident, you see people bending your way, wanting to be on your side, wanting to do things for you.” Arnold Schwarzenegger, Arnold: The Education of a Bodybuilder
“Why are our bodies soft and weak and smooth, unapt to toil and trouble in the world, but that our soft conditions and our hearts should well agree with our external parts?” William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew
“I am not a collection of members which we call the human body: I am not a subtle air distributed through these members, I am not a wind, a fire, a vapour, a breath, nor anything at all which I can imagine or conceive; because I have assumed that...” René Descartes, Meditations on First Philosophy
“Our purses shall be proud, our garments poor; for 'tis the mind that makes the body rich; and as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds, so honour peereth in the meanest habit.” William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew
“The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries in itself the causes of its destruction.” Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract
“if the body is not a thing, it is a situation: it is our grasp on the world and the outline for our projects.” Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex
“The length of a man's outspread arms is equal to his height.” Leonardo da Vinci, The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci
“And all the while one spirit uttered this, The other one did weep so, that, for pity, I swooned away as if I had been dying, And fell, even as a dead body falls.” Dante Alighieri, Divine Comedy
“For what is the Heart, but a Spring; and the Nerves, but so many Strings; and the Joynts, but so many Wheeles, giving motion to the whole Body, such as was intended by the Artificer?” Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
“Bond guessed that hair covered most of his squat body. Naked, Bond supposed, he would be an obscene object.” Ian Fleming, Casino Royale
“It also meant that whenever a body is not acted on by any force, it will keep on moving in a straight line at the same speed.” Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time
“Oh, well physicked, said the monk; a hundred devils leap into my body, if there be not more old drunkards than old physicians!” François Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel
“The more miles you ski, the better a skier you become; the more reps you do, the better your body.” Arnold Schwarzenegger, Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story
“The power which a man's imagination has over his body to heal it or make it sick is a force which none of us is born without.” Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World

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