Quotes About Motion

Movement never lies. It is a barometer telling the state of the soul's weather to all who can read it.

If they ask you, 'What is the evidence of your father in you?' say to them, 'It is motion and rest.'"93

Love is that to life, what wind is to a windmill.

In love all the contradiction of existence merge themselves and are lost. Only in love are unity and duality not at variance. Love must be one and two at the same time. Only love is motion and rest in one. Our heart ever changes its place till it fin

It spun faster and faster then everything was still. Absolutely still.

Ba-bump—ba-bump—ba-bump—ba-bump

A lonely pond in age-old stillness sleeps . . . Apart, unstirred by sound or motion . . . till Suddenly into it a lithe frog leaps. Translated by Curtis Hidden Page

There's a point at 7,000 RPM... where everything fades. The machine becomes weightless. Just disappears. And all that's left is a body moving through space and time. 7,000 RPM. That's where you meet it. You feel it coming. It creeps up on you, close in your ear. Asks you a question. The only question that matters. Who are you?

What's more, your body also must be accelerated forward with every stride because it loses momentum upon each foot landing. The

You haven't failed, In a moment of sadness. You haven't lost, In a moment of defeat. You are not a statue Standing in an eternal contrapposto. You are a thing in motion: A rising tide, a cresting wave. Your vast depths witness Every marvel, every wonder: You are, then, marvelous, And wonderful. So: Don't fight the moon. Allow every tide. And give all your wrecked ships The space to hide.

The wheels of life Stand never idle, but go always round. - To the Duke of Wellington

According to homeopathic literature, Capsicum is called for in patients of lax fiber and flabby muscles, who don't exercise and eat the wrong foods. Has a red face, yet the face feels cold to the touch and is generally chilly. At times he or she gasps for breath, or can't catch the breath. Worse from slight drafts, cold air, cold water, uncovering, dampness, bathing, drinking, and eating, better from continued motion and exercise.

Activity = passivity.

The analysis of movement leads him to recognize that in every instant of movement there is a conatus toward an ulterior becoming, a something-in-motion making a circular trajectory that has a kind of memory

Forms are 'scars' of forces and forces vibrate within forms.

We have sought for firm ground and found none. The deeper we penetrate, the more restless becomes the universe; all is rushing about and vibrating in a wild dance.

A waterfall hurdled its crazed parabola between gray rocks, flying into a stifled scream of motion far below.

Time is but a phantom dagger That motion lifts to slay itself.

Functionally, a man is somewhat like a bicycle," I told him. "A bicycle maintains its poise and equilibrium only so long as it is going forward towards something. You have a good bicycle. Your trouble is you are trying to maintain your balance sitting still, with no place to go. It's no wonder you feel shaky.

There he lay spooked, a spinning wheel in a celestial bowling alley.

The only option for a creative person was constant motion—a lifetime of busy whirligigging in a generally forward direction, until you couldn't do it any longer.

Running so hard, her breath stippled with pain to go faster, hit the grass harder, move forward faster, like she could break through something in front of her, something no one else saw.

I cannot explain how it begins, or why it happens, what strange alchemy puts such things in motion.

All we do is to rise and to fall; and in between these two activities, we sleep!