Body Love Quotes:

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

- Jim Rohn

topic: Life, Motivational, Inspiring, Healthy Living, Healthy Habits

I'm pretty comfortable with my body. I'm imperfect. The imperfections are there. People are going to see them, but I take the view you only live once.

- Kate Hudson

source: Interview With Nigel Farndale, www.telegraph.co.uk. May 17, 2010.

topic: Beauty, Views, People, Inspirational Body, I May Not Be Perfect

To love yourself right now, just as you are, is to give yourself heaven. Don't wait until you die. If you wait, you die now. If you love, you live now.

- Alan Cohen

topic: Beauty, Love You, Giving, Building Confidence, Confidence In Yourself

It's also helpful to realize that this very body that we have, that's sitting right here right now... with its aches and it pleasures... is exactly what we need to be fully human, fully awake, fully alive.

- Pema Chodron

topic: Inspiring, Needs, Sitting, Body Image, Your Body

You shouldn't been pressured into trying to be thin by the fashion industry, because they only want models that are like human mannequins. But you have to remember that it's not practical or possible for an everyday woman to look like that. Beinz size zero is a career in itself so we shouldn't try and be like them. It's not realistic and it's not healthy.

- Rihanna

topic: Beauty, Fashion, Zero, Inspirational Body, Fashion Industry

Girls of all kinds can be beautiful - from the thin, plus-sized, short, very tall, ebony to porcelain-skinned; the quirky, clumsy, shy, outgoing and all in between. It's not easy though because many people still put beauty into a confining, narrow box...Think outside of the box...Pledge that you will look in the mirror and find the unique beauty in you.

- Tyra Banks

topic: Beauty, Beautiful, Girl, Inspirational Body, Body Image

My limbs work, so I'm not going to complain about the way my body is shaped.

- Drew Barrymore

topic: Acceptance, Complaining, Body, Inspirational Body, Voluptuous

I'm never going to starve myself for a part. I don't want little girls to be like, 'Oh, I want to look like Katniss, so I'm going to skip dinner.' That's something I was really conscious of during training, when you're trying to get your body to look exactly right. I was trying to get my body to look fit and strong-not thin and underfed.

- Jennifer Lawrence

topic: Inspiring, Girl, Strong, Inspirational Body, Women's Bodies

Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity.

- John F. Kennedy

topic: Motivational, Fitness, Health, Soundness, Inspirational Body

You are imperfect, permanently and inevitably flawed. And you are beautiful.

- Amy Bloom

topic: Beauty, Beautiful, Sexy, Inspirational Body, You Are Beautiful

To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.

- Simone de Beauvoir

source: Simone de Beauvoir (1953). “The second sex”, Vintage

topic: Self Esteem, Bad Day, Body Weight, Body Image, Beautiful Body

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

- Friedrich Nietzsche

topic: Inspiring, Wisdom, Philosophy, Individual Morality, Mind Body And Spirit

If any thing is sacred, the human body is sacred.

- Walt Whitman

topic: Inspiring, Sacred, Body, Your Body, Human Body

Your body loves you, but if you do not love your life, it will end it far sooner, thinking it is doing you a favor.

- Bernie Siegel

topic: Love You, Thinking, Doing You, Love Your Life, Body Love

You have to stand up and be a human. You have to honor the man or woman that you are. Respect your body, enjoy your body, love your body, feed, clean, and heal your body. Exercise and do what makes your body feel good. This is a puja to your body, and that is a communion between you and God. . . . When you practice giving love to every part of your body, you plant seeds of love in your mind, and when they grow, you will love, honor, and respect your body immensely.

- Miguel Angel Ruiz

topic: Love You, Exercise, Men, Giving Love, Puja

The best we can do is focus on what we have the power to improve in ourselves, and when it comes to body-love the one you are with.

- Sara Davidson

topic: Focus, Body, Body Love

You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.

- Mary Oliver

topic: Animal, Body, Wild Geese, Body Love

Love is not a consequence. Love is not a choice. Love is a thirst. A need as vital to the soul as water is to the body. Love is a precious draught that not only soothes a parched throat, but it vitalizes a man. It fortifies him enough that he is willing to slay dragons for the woman who offers it. Take that draught of love from me and I will shrivel to dust. To take it from a man dying of thirst and give it to another whilst he watches is a cruelty I never thought you capable of.

- Colleen Houck

topic: Love Is, Men, Dragons, Draught, Body Love

Of all the things a body loves, predictability is one of them.

- David Agus

topic: Body, Predictability, Body Love

My mom was very much like 'Love your body, love yourself, run around naked....' Whatever we wanted to do, it was very accepting.

- Tallulah Belle Willis

source: "Tallulah Willis On What Demi Moore Taught Her About Body Image" by Sarah St. Lifer, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 11, 2012.

topic: Mom, Running, Love You, Body Love

My god! people say. You have so much self-control! And later: My god. You're so, so sick. When people say this, they turn their heads, you've won your little game. You have proven your thesis that no-body-loves-me-every-body-hates-me, guess-I'll-just-eat-worms. You get to sink back into your hospital bed, shrieking with righteous indignation. See? you get to say. I knew you'd give up on me. I knew you'd leave.

- Marya Hornbacher

topic: Suicide, Giving Up, Hate, Righteous Indignation, So Sick

There are two kinds of beauty, one being of the soul and the other of the body, That of the soul is revealed through intelligence, modesty, right conduct, Generosity and good breeding, all of which qualities may exist in an ugly man; And when one's gaze is fixed upon beauty of this sort and not upon that of the body, Love is usually born suddenly and violently.

- Miguel de Cervantes

source: Miguel de Cervantes (2000). “Don Quixote”, p.1050, Modern Library

topic: Love Is, Men, Two, Right Conduct, Good Breeding

You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.

- Mary Oliver

topic: Love, Inspirational, Animal, Wild Geese, Body Love

My body loves my in spite of how I may treat it. My body communicates with me, and I now listen to its messages. I am willing to GET the message.

- Louise Hay

source: Louise L. Hay (2009). “Inner Wisdom: Meditations for the Heart and Soul”, p.27, ReadHowYouWant.com

topic: Body, May, Messages, Body Love

There is only beauty / and it has only one perfect expression / poetry. All the rest is a lie /except for those who live by the body, love, and, that love of the mind, friendship. For me, Poetry takes the place of love, because it is enamored of itself, and because its sensual delight falls back deliciously in my soul.

- Stephane Mallarme

topic: Lying, Fall, Love Is, Fall Back, Body Love

Sex is the joining of two bodies; love is the joining of two souls.

- Gary Chapman

topic: Love, Sex, Two, Two Souls, Body Love

It seems like thin people should not be running around dissing overweight people, and overweight people should not be running around dissing thinner people... if you like your body, love it, if you feel beautiful, cool. If you're a size 24 and you are feeling fierce, heat. If you're a size 0 and feeling fierce, be fierce. I think we need to stop worrying about what other people are doing and start focusing on manifesting on ourselves.

- Kelly Cutrone

topic: Beautiful, Running, Thinking, Body Love, Dissing