Handstands Quotes:

A new yogi doesn't handstand on their first try, and a new teacher doesn't start out as a headliner. Be patient, and trust it's all going to add up and unfold in due time.

- Kathryn Budig

topic: Teacher, Trying, Add, Due Time, New Teachers

So I stood up and did a handstand on my Guru's roof, to celebrate the notion of liberation. I felt the dusty tiles under my hands. I felt my own strength and balance. I felt the easy night breeze on the palms of my bare feet. This kind of thing -- a spontaneous handstand--isn't something a disembodied cool blue soul can do, but a human being can do it. We have hands; we can stand on them if we want to. That's our privilege. That's the joy of a mortal body. And that's why God needs us. Because God loves to feel things through our hands.

- Elizabeth Gilbert

source: Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.178, A&C Black

topic: Night, Blue, Hands, Stood Up, Eat Pray Love Book

Why are we doing all these handstands, backbends and arm balances? I don't know why we're doing them unless our lives are shaped and changed.

- Judith Hanson Lasater

topic: Balance, Arms, Changed, Backbends, Handstands

I opened my eyes And looked up at the rain, And it dripped in my head And flowed into my brain, And all that I hear as I lie in my bed Is the slishity-slosh of the rain in my head. I step very softly, I walk very slow, I can't do a handstand-- I might overflow, So pardon the wild crazy thing I just said-- I'm just not the same since there's rain in my head.

- Shel Silverstein

source: Shel Silverstein, “Rain”

topic: Crazy, Lying, Rain, Handstands

You are made of bent coat hangers, honey, gravel, epoxy and handstands. I am made of lying on the floor, the same song on repeat.

- Dean Young

source: Dean Young (2012). “Fall Higher”, p.33, Copper Canyon Press

topic: Song, Lying, Coats, Lying On The Floor, Coat Hangers

Sometimes I feel like tap-dancing, screeching, unscrewing light bulbs, pulling curtains, combing hair, doing knee bends, handstands and turning somersaults out there.

- Ilie Nastase

topic: Light, Hair, Dancing, Tap Dancing, Handstands

I was always doing something physical. My brothers and I used to have handstand contests. We'd walk around the projects on our hands and see who could get the farthest. I was always playing football with them, basketball or racing in the street.

- Florence Griffith Joyner

topic: Basketball, Football, Brother, Handstands

I'm in good shape. My cancer means I have lost a lot of organs and I'm a lot lighter. I have devoted myself to yoga and I'm doing handstands.

- Eve Ensler

topic: Cancer, Yoga, Mean, Handstands