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• Yoga is not just repetition of few postures - it is more about the exploration and discovery of the subtle energies of life.

  Amit Ray

  Yoga, Discovery, Energy Of Life

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• Freedom in a posture is when every joint is active.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Joints, Active

  B.K.S. Iyengar (2006). “Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom”, p.35, Rodale

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• And I don't want posture lessons from a country that spent the last 20 years flopping on its back and grabbing its ankles when Saddam showed up waving stacks of Francs in exchange for bang-sticks.

  James Lileks

  Country, Years, Bangs

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• A statesman doesn't try to pull himself up by dragging someboy else down, and he doesn't try to convience people they're victims just so he can posture as their savior.

  Lawrence Reed

  People, Trying, Politics

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• My father taught me things about body language that psychologists have been catching up with ever since. He always knew when I was lying, because my posture was all wrong.

  Richard Griffiths

  Father, Lying, Body

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• Forgiveness multiplies and melts rigid postures. Try again and again with self forgiveness. Be the kind parent to yourself you may not have had.

  Sark

  Self, Parent, Negativity

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• In a one-woman show, there must be compelling material that you adore. In both of these there are conversations with you and another character. My Second City (improvisation) background comes in very handy for accent and body posture.

  Valerie Harper

  Character, Cities, Body

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• I'm afraid I tend to be thinking about things and not paying sufficient attention to one's posture, deportment and general cast of face.

  Jeremy Paxman

  Thinking, Attention, Faces

  "Me, arrogant? Neigh, neigh says Paxman" by Sam Jones, www.theguardian.com. April 29, 2005.

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• It is a delicious moment, certainly, that of being well nestled in bed, and feeling that you shall drop gently to sleep. The good is to come, not past; the limbs have just been tired enough to render the remaining in one posture delightful; the labour of the day is gone

  Leigh Hunt

  Tired, Sleep, Past

  Leigh Hunt (1820). “The Indicator”, p.105

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• Without intention, all these postures, these breathing practices, meditations, and the like can become little more than ineffectual gestures. When animated by intention, however, the simplest movement, the briefest meditation, and the contents of one breath cycle are made potent.

  Donna Farhi

  Yoga, Practice, Breathing

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• In truth, it matters less what we do in practice than how we do it and why we do it. The same posture, the same sequence, the same meditation with a different intention takes on an entirely new meaning and will have entirely different outcomes.

  Donna Farhi

  Success, Yoga, Practice

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• The best way to sell yourself to others is first to sell the others to yourself. Check yourself against this list of obstacles to a pleasing personality: interrupting others; sarcasm; vanity; being a poor listener; insincere flattery; finding fault; challenging others without good cause; giving unsolicited advice; complaining; attitude of superiority; envy of others' success; poor posture and dress.

  Harold Geneen

  Attitude, Sarcasm, Vanity

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• While doing the postures, your mind should be in half-consciousn ess, which does not mean sleep. It means silence, emptiness, space, which can then be filled with an acute awareness of the sensations given by the posture. You watch yourself from inside. It is a full silence.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Mean, Sleep, Space

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• My mother taught me everything I know; how to speak properly, posture, enunciation.

  Jonathan Krohn

  Mother, Taught, Speak

  "New wonder kid on the block" by Ed Pilkington, www.theguardian.com. March 18, 2009.

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• Because of poor posture, practically 95% of our population suffers from varying degrees of spinal curvature, not to mention more serious ailments. Good posture can be successfully acquired only when the entire mechanism of the body is under perfect control.

  Joseph Pilates

  Perfect, Suffering, Degrees

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• Good posture can be successfully acquired only when the entire mechanism of the body is under perfect control.

  Joseph Pilates

  Perfect, Body, Mechanism

  Joseph H. Pilates, William John Miller (1998). “Pilates' Return to Life Through Contrology”, Presentation Dynamics Incorporated

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• Boys, young men, men of all ages are being captivated by the new visual grammar which pushes men to pout and posture.

  Susie Orbach

  Boys, Men, Age

  "Body uniformity? Don't do it, guys" by Susie Orbach, www.theguardian.com. May 10, 2010.

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• I was always kind of florid. And full of rhetoric. That was my flaw. My whole time writing, I've had to work against that because it can be a wrecking posture.

  Barry Hannah

  Writing, Kind, Flaws

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• The goal of theology is the worship of God. The posture of theology is on one's knees. The mode of theology is repentance.

  Sinclair B. Ferguson

  Goal, Knees, Worship

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• We never really are the adults we pretend to be. We wear the mask and perhaps the clothes and posture of grown-ups, but inside ourskin we are never as wise or as sure or as strong as we want to convince ourselves and others we are. We may fool all the rest of the people all of the time, but we never fool our parents. They can see behind the mask of adulthood. To her mommy and daddy, the empress never has on any clothes--and knows it.

  Frank Pittman

  Wise, Strong, Growing Up

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• People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of standing out.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Ideas, People, Standing Out

  Warren G. Bennis, Patricia Ward Biederman (2009). “The Essential Bennis”, p.5, John Wiley & Sons

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• Worship is a posture of life that takes as its primary purpose the understanding of what it really means to love and revere God.

  Ravi Zacharias

  God, Religious, Mean

  FaceBook post by Ravi Zacharias from Apr 07, 2014

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• When a woman puts on a heel, she has a different posture, a different attitude. She really stands up and has a consciousness of her body.

  Christian Louboutin

  Attitude, Different, Body

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• Cultivate an ever continuous power of observation. Wherever you are, be always ready to make slight notes of postures, groups and incidents. Store up in the mind... a continuous stream of observations from which to make selections later. Above all things get abroad, see the sunlight and everything that is to be seen.

  John Singer Sargent

  Mind, Groups, Sunlight

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• Backbends are not poses meant for expressionism. Backbends are meant to understand the back parts of our bodies. The front body can be seen with the eyes, but the back body can only be felt. That's why I say these are the most advanced postures, where the mind begins to look at the back.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Eye, Mind, Looks

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