Posture Quotes

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

The study of asana is not about mastering posture. It's about using posture to understand and transform yourself.

If I feel confident wearing something, I think it translates in photographs. It changes my demeanor and posture.

Backbends are to be felt more than expressed. The other postures can be expressed and then felt. Like in meditation each person has to feel backbends.

Cultivate an ever-continuous power of observation. Wherever you are, be always ready to make slight notes of postures, groups and incidents.

When the asana is correct, there is lightness, a freedom. Freedom comes when every part of the body is active. Let us be free in whatever posture we are doing. Let us be full in whatever we do.

Unless some misfortune has made it impossible, everyone can have good posture.

You just realize that you can't turn a lefthand corner in a right posture without exposing some part of your body, and so it was really me just noticing the exposure I had, and it made me start doing and practicing the switching.

We stop the one who can't cease from seeking things outside, and practice with our bodies with a posture that seeks absolutely nothing. This is zazen.

A good stance and posture reflect a proper state of mind.

Humility is the only lens though which great things can be seen--and once we have seen them, humility is the only posture possible.

Be mild and firm. Apply your best exertions to put us in a proper posture of defense.

To mourn, perhaps, is simply to prolong a posture of astonishment.

Sin is not an unfortunate slip or a regrettable act; it is a posture of defiance against a holy God.

When a woman puts up her fists to a man she is putting herself in the only posture in which he is not afraid of her.

Our posture NOW defines our portion later!

We submit to the majority because we have to. But we are not compelled to call our attitude of subjection a posture of respect.

Nothing true can be said about God from a posture of defense.

Good posture and an attitude let you get away with anything.

What is it that distinguishes man from animals? It is not his upright posture.

Public postures have the configuration of private derangement.

The liberal posture really requires a willingness to give to others, and that works, as I say, when you have an expanding pie. But if you don't have an expanding pie, everyone starts hunkering down.

Razo hopped back up and adopted a posture that said he was completely unruffled, never had been, and in fact was ready to do something manly like lift boulders or swallow live worms.

I have very bad posture.

A drink this good deserves one's best posture.