Stiffness Quotes

• Siempre que encontremos rigidez en el cuerpo, nuestra mente debe ser especialmente flexible. Nunca es la rigidez de nuestro cuerpo lo que limita nuestra práctica, siempre es la rigidez de nuestra mente.

  Geeta Iyengar

  Yoga, Práctica, Mente

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• Eutrapelia . "A happy and gracious flexibility," Pericles calls this quality of the Athenians...lucidity of thought, clearness and propriety of language, freedom from prejudice and freedom from stiffness, openness of mind, amiability of manners.

  Matthew Arnold

  Mind, Quality, Prejudice

  "Irish Essays. A Speech at Eton" by Matthew Arnold, 1882.

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• Ningún hombre, por fuerte que sea, puede servir diez años como maestro de escuela, sacerdote o senador, y seguir siendo apto para cualquier otra cosa.

  Henry Adams

  Strong, Reality, Men

  Henry Adams (2015). “The Education of Henry Adams”, p.101, Booklassic

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• No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else. All the dogmatic stations in life have the effect of fixing a certain stiffness of attitude forever, as though they mesmerised the subject.

  Henry Adams

  Strong, Attitude, Men

  Henry Adams (2015). “The Education of Henry Adams”, p.101, Booklassic

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• The public must suffer untold pangs from the stiffness, the deliberate stifling of emotion, on the part of many British actors.

  Ivor Novello

  Suffering, Actors, Emotion

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• People that keep stiff upper lips find that it's hard to smile.

  Judith Guest

  Life, Depression, People

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• I'm a working stiff, baby, just like everybody else.

  Peter O'Toole

  Bebé

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• Everybody's for democracy in principle. It's only in practice that the thing gives rise to stiff objections.

  Meg Greenfield

  Freedom, Democracies Have, Practice

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• Una disculpa rígida es un segundo insulto... La parte perjudicada no quiere ser compensada porque se le ha hecho daño; quiere ser curada porque se le ha hecho daño.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Perdón, Lo Siento, Herir

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• Los problemas no están necesariamente relacionados con el desánimo. El desaliento tiene un germen propio, tan diferente del problema como la artritis es diferente de una articulación rígida.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Connections, Different, Literature

  F. Scott Fitzgerald, James L. W. West (2005). “Fitzgerald: My Lost City: Personal Essays, 1920-1940”, p.147, Cambridge University Press

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• Incluso cuando tengo que escribir una simple carta me muero de miedo, como si me estuviera mareando.

  Gustav Klimt

  Miedo, Escribir, Simple

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• La desgracia había flexibilizado a Lily en lugar de endurecerla, y una sustancia flexible es menos fácil de romper que una rígida.

  Edith Wharton

  Sustancia, Literatura, Lirios

  Edith Wharton (2016). "La casa de la alegría: Edith Wharton", p.33, VM eBooks.

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• Firmness or stiffness of the mind is not from adherence to truth, but submission to prejudice.

  John Locke

  Mind, Adherence, Prejudice

  John Locke (1828). “An essay concerning human understanding ... The twentieth edition, etc”, p.560

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• Rectitude carried to excess hardens into stiffness; benevolence indulged beyond measure sinks into weakness.

  Date Masamune

  Weakness, Excess, Rectitude

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• No, women like you don't write. They carve onion sculptures and potato statues. They sit in dark corners and braid their hair in new shapes and twists in order to control the stiffness, the unruliness, the rebelliousness.

  Edwidge Danticat

  Writing, Dark, Hair

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• Your body's ability to function as a clean and efficient channel is limited by stiffness, lack of strength, and lack of endurance. Your mind's ability is limited by the way it thinks about itself, by the way you think about you. The process of yoga is one of undoing the obstructions and limitations in your body and mind that inhibit the free flow of creative life force.

  Erich Schiffmann

  Yoga, Thinking, Creative

  Erich Schiffmann (2013). “Yoga The Spirit And Practice Of Moving Into Stilln”, p.65, Simon and Schuster

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• La hierba aplastada y oprimida por la pesada roca puede volver a crecer lenta y suavemente ayudada por el aire fresco, el sol y la lluvia comprensiva. Por otra parte, la roca se rompe a menudo por la exposición a la naturaleza y la intemperie. Se puede considerar que este hecho guarda una estrecha relación con la vida humana. Al mismo tiempo, la ternura tiene a veces un poder más fuerte contra la rigidez o el endurecimiento debidos a una tensión extrema.

  Kyuzo Mifune

  Hierba, Fuerte, Crecer

  "El Canon del Judo". Libro de Kyuzo Mifune, 1956.

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• The winter oak... is very useful in buildings but when in a moist place it takes in water to its centre... and so it rots. The Turkey oak and the beech both... take in moisture to their centre and soon decay. White and black poplar, as well as willow, linden, and the agnus castus... are of great service from their stiffness... they are a convenient material to use in carving.

  Marco Vitruvio Polio

  Winter, Turkeys, White

  "De architectura (Ten Books on Architecture)". Book by Marcus Vitruvius Pollio (Book II, Chapter IX, Section 9), circa 15 BC.

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• Pedantry, in the common acceptation of the word, means an absurd ostentation of learning, and stiffness of phraseology, proceeding from a misguided knowledge of books and a total ignorance of men.

  Henry Mackenzie

  Book, Ignorance, Mean

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• Mostly getting old is boring. I hate the stiffness in the bones. I was physically arrogant for years. I don't like it now that I have difficulty getting around. But a certain equanimity sets in, a certain detachment. Things seem less desperately important than they once did, and that's a pleasure.

  Doris Lessing

  Hate, Years, Important

  Entrevista con Jonah Raskin, progressive.org. 19 de noviembre de 2013.

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• Very often, I confess, the teller of dreams bores me. His dream could perhaps interest me if it were frankly worked on. But to hear a glorious tale of his insanity! I have not yet clarified, psychoanalytically, this boredom during the recital of other people's dreams. Perhaps I have retained the stiffness of a rationalist. I do not follow the tale of justified incoherence docilely. I always suspect that part of the stupidities being recounted are invented.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Dream, Boredom, People

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• Puede que el pan no siempre nos alimente; pero siempre nos hace bien, incluso quita la rigidez de nuestras articulaciones, y nos hace flexibles y boyantes, cuando no sabíamos lo que nos aquejaba, para reconocer cualquier generosidad en el hombre o en la Naturaleza, para compartir cualquier alegría heroica y sin mezcla.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Generosity, Joy

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.243, Penguin

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• Vipassana arises as you pay awareness to the inner and outer experience unfolding at the present moment. Vipassana is not associated with any rigid formula or methods. Whenever you are aware of your mental or physical feelings like tension in the muscles, movement of limbs, stiffness, heat or cold, you have begun to develop special understanding of realities.

  Amit Ray

  Realidad, Comprensión, Sentimientos

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