Quotes About Movement

Consciousness is only possible through change; change is only possible through movement.

You can't consume much if you sit still and read books.

Round and round they went with their snakes, snakily...

You can't consume much if you sit still and read books.

Time moved for you not in quotidian beats, but in the slow rhythm the ages keep –

Certainly not. I do muscular work, because I have muscles; and if I don't use my muscles I shall become a bad-tempered sitting-addict.

Round and round they went with their snakes, snakily, with a soft undulating movement at the knees and hips.

Behave like an old man and your body will function like an old man's

Y si lo de Nueva Córdoba cobraba cuerpo, podría contarse, en última instancia, con la ayuda de Estados Unidos, ya que la Casa Blanca estaba opuesta, ahora más que nunca, a toda germinación de movimientos anarquizantes, socializantes, en esta América de abajo, harto revoltosa y latina.

A word is a spark in the movement of the heart

But now I don't know any story, mine or anyone else's, that did not begin in the animal movement of a body - an inclination, a wound, an obliqueness, at times a brilliant move, often obscene instincts that came from far away. It's all written there already. The thoughts come afterward, and are always a belated map, to which, out of convention and weariness, we attribute some precision.

if you observe the social structure of the people, you only see springs of the machine, but not also the noble hand which moves it.

Myth is a cloud based upon a shadow based upon the movement of the breeze.

Look at every territorial dispute you care to mention. Northern Ireland, for instance." "Religion in that case," Jamie ventured. "Not just. Religion was the badge of identity, but it wasn't really about whether you went to Mass or to a tub-thumping Protestant chapel. It was a result of the movement of people. The Protestant planters—many of them Scots—replaced the native Irish, remember? Movement of people again.

And then there was the delicate issue of what to do with one's bottom while one was walking. Some people thought that one could just leave one's bottom to follow one when one was walking. Not so. A mere glance at any glamorous girl would show that the bottom had to be more involved.

and although she'd glibly remarked that you couldn't stand still, was this actually true or was it a hollow axiom as false and misleading as any other trite saying? Why should one not stand still? If the position in which one found oneself standing was a satisfactory and comfortable one? She felt no need, no need at all to move on from being Mma Ramotswe of The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, wife that great mechanic, Mr. J.L.B. Matekoni.

And she began to weep, dropping her head onto her forearms and rocking backwards and forwards in that curious motion that is perhaps a subconscious attempt to mimic the movement that brings comfort to a tiny baby. That we should in moments of sorrow seek to return to a time when the harshness of the world could be forfended by the simple reassurances of our parents; that we should do that …

One never gets anywhere unless one leaves

It was not really like a person moving, thought Mma Ramotswe; it was more a geological movement

Yoga postures, were traditionally practiced very slowly, with each movement synchronized to the breath, in order to balance the nervous system and open a perceptual gateway to the parasympathetic nervous system. This makes us available to our feeling function.

When we practice asanas from an interior perspective, we bring our minds back into the body. Instead of directing the body as a separate entity, we relocate our minds within our body and begin to listen to the nonverbal, nonmental information contained within the soma. As we give our full attention to every breath, movement, and the subtlest of sensations, the body becomes mindful, and the mind becomes embodied.

And the world kept moving, not toward any goal, just going, because that's what life does. And its bound to be better with a companion who knows how to be tender, a companion you may grow to cherish.

There are movements which impinge upon the nerves with a strength that is incomparable, for movement has power to stir the senses and emotions, unique in itself.

The Dancer believes that his art has something to say which cannot be expressed in words or in any other way than by dancing.