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Quotes About Movement

Le monde n'a pas d'âge. L'humanité se déplace, simplement. (The world has no age. Humanity simply changes place.)
~ Arthur Rimbaud
The seasons are what a symphony ought to be: four perfect movements in harmony with each other.
~ Arthur Rubenstein
An ocean traveler has even more vividly the impression that the ocean is made of waves than that it is made of water.
~ Arthur S. Eddington
The labour movement had the best opportunity in 50 years to transform not merely an industrial situation and win an important battle for workers in struggle, but an opportunity to change the government of the day.
~ Arthur Scargill
Yet what you need is not marches, demonstrations, rallies or wide associations, all of them are important. What you need is direct action. The sooner people understand that, the sooner we'll begin to change things.
~ Arthur Scargill
Nobody could have possibly known that the FBI had sent a phony letter to Eldridge Cleaver in Algiers, 'signed' by the Panther 21, criticizing Huey Newton's leadership... no one could have known that the FBI's cointelpro was attempting to destroy the Black Panther Party in particular, and the Black Liberation movement in general, using divide-and-conquer tactics.
~ Assata Shakur
No movement can survive unless it is constantly growing and changing with the times. If it isn't growing, it's stagnant, and without the support of the people, no movement for liberation can exist, no matter how correct its analysis of the situation is.
~ Assata Shakur
Revolution is not a one time event.
~ Audre Lorde
Al jaren reis ik, en al die jaren vraag ik me af waarom. Belangstelling voor vreemde landen heb ik niet. In feite houd ik alleen van mij verplaatsen, of verplaatst worden, door een vreemd, bij voorkeur dunbevolkt landschap. Ik hou van vertrekken, niet van aankomen.
~ August Willemsen
La vida no es un ensayo, aunque tratemos muchas cosas; no es un cuento, auqnue inventemos muchas cosas; no es un poema, aunque soñemos muchas cosas. El ensayo del cuento del poema de la vida es un movimiento perpetuo; eso es, un movimiento perpetuo.
~ Augusto Monterroso
In terms of the history of a far reaching movement, 20 years is not that long.
~ Aung San Suu Kyi
To feel "fit as a fiddle" you must tone down your middle.
~ Author Unknown
So just bust a move!
~ Ava J. Abramowitz
I'm the kind of person who always likes to be doing something.
~ Avril Lavigne
We are a little piece of continual change, looking at an infinite quantity of continual change.
~ B.K.S. Iyengar
Action is movement with intelligence.
~ B.K.S. Iyengar
Without certain stress, the true asana is not experienced, and the mind will remain in its limitations and will not move beyond its existing frontiers. This limited state of mind can be described as the petty, small mind.
~ B.K.S. Iyengar
Overstretching occurs when one loses contact with one's center, with the divine core. Instead, the ego wants simply to stretch further, to reach the floor, regardless of its ability, rather than extending gradually from the center. Each movement must be an art. It is an art in which the Self is the only spectator.
~ B.K.S. Iyengar
Extend the energy of the asana out through your extremities. Let the river flow through you.
~ B.K.S. Iyengar
Tenemos setecientos músculos, trescientas articulaciones, dieciséis mil kilómetros de corriente nerviosa fluyendo por un mismo organismo y cerca de noventa y seis mil kilómetros de venas, arterias y capilares portadores de sangre. La
~ B.K.S. Iyengar
in all asanas, ascend to descend and descend to ascend.
~ B.K.S. Iyengar
When performing asanas, no part of the body should be idle, no part should be neglected.
~ B.K.S. Iyengar
If you can adapt to and balance in a world that is always moving and unstable, you learn how to become tolerant to the permanence of change and difference.
~ B.K.S. Iyengar
You must learn to move the brain a bit more slowly so that it follows the body, or you have to make the body move faster to match the intelligence of the brain. Let the body be the doer, the brain the observer.
~ B.K.S. Iyengar