Posture quotes
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There's something undeniable about the posture of a person trying not to acknowledge your existance
-- Anna Quindlen -
When the asana is correct, there is lightness, a freedom. Freedom comes when every part of the body is active. Let us be free in whatever posture we are doing. Let us be full in whatever we do.
-- B.K.S. Iyengar -
The study of asana is not about mastering posture. It's about using posture to understand and transform yourself.
-- B.K.S. Iyengar -
By adopting a certain physical posture, a resonant chord is struck in spirit.
-- Bruce Lee -
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When I consider the deeper meaning of yoga, I realize it's about a lot more than simply performing a variety of postures on a mat.
-- Carre Otis -
Don't teach too many postures; just the main ones, and hold them for a long time.
-- Dharma Mittra -
To adopt the posture of the hero is the most unheroic of all acts.
-- Dorothy Norman -
Be mild and firm. Apply your best exertions to put us in a proper posture of defense.
-- Edward Rutledge -
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We must take care always to keep ourselves, by suitable establishments, in a respectable defensive posture.
-- George Washington -
Cultivate an ever-continuous power of observation. Wherever you are, be always ready to make slight notes of postures, groups and incidents.
-- John Singer Sargent -
Good posture can be successfully acquired only when the entire mechanism of the body is under perfect control.
-- Joseph Pilates -
We stop the one who can't cease from seeking things outside, and practice with our bodies with a posture that seeks absolutely nothing. This is zazen.
-- Kodo Sawaki -
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Unless some misfortune has made it impossible, everyone can have good posture.
-- Loretta Young -
Good posture and an attitude let you get away with anything.
-- Lorna Landvik -
Nothing true can be said about God from a posture of defense.
-- Marilynne Robinson -
Sin is not an unfortunate slip or a regrettable act; it is a posture of defiance against a holy God.
-- Max Lucado -
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A good stance and posture reflect a proper state of mind.
-- Morihei Ueshiba -
If I feel confident wearing something, I think it translates in photographs. It changes my demeanor and posture.
-- Nina Dobrev -
Humility is the only lens though which great things can be seen--and once we have seen them, humility is the only posture possible.
-- Parker J. Palmer -
To mourn, perhaps, is simply to prolong a posture of astonishment ...
-- Sara Suleri -
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Public postures have the configuration of private derangement.
-- Tom Stoppard -
The liberal posture really requires a willingness to give to others, and that works, as I say, when you have an expanding pie. But if you don't have an expanding pie, everyone starts hunkering down.
-- Thomas B. Edsall
