Quotes Tagged "movement"

She writes things with her movements that I for the life of me could never write with a pen.

All that is important is this one moment in movement. Make the moment important, vital, and worth living. Do not let it slip away unnoticed and unused.

None of your knowledge, your reading, your connections will be of any use here: two legs suffice, and big eyes to see with. Walk alone, across mountains or through forests. You are nobody to the hills or the thick boughs heavy with greenery. You are no longer a role, or a status, not even an individual, but a body, a body that feels sharp stones on the paths, the caress of long grass and the freshness of the wind. When you walk, the world has neither present nor future: nothing but the cycle of mornings and evenings. Always the same thing to do all day: walk. But the walker who marvels while walking (the blue of the rocks in a July evening light, the silvery green of olive leaves at noon, the violet morning hills) has no past, no plans, no experience. He has within him the eternal child. While walking I am but a simple gaze.

Caution not spirit, let it roam wild; for in that natural state dance embraces divine frequency.

That statues are motionless would be true only if the earth were the universe.

Holding on to the past will hold you down in life. Learn from it but move on.

It's the smell of him in the bathroom, all I need to get ready for the day. Watching him get dressed, and the sound in the kitchen; a slow hum of a song and his movements, picking things to eat. The way I could observe him, for hours, just go on with his day – or as he sleeps – simply breathing in and out, in and out, and it's like the hymn that sings me to peace. I know the world is still out there and I know I'm not yet friendly to its pace, but as long as I know him with me, here, there, somewhere – us – I know I have a chance.

Well, I always know what I want. And when you know what you want--you go toward it. Sometimes you go very fast, and sometimes only an inch a year. Perhaps you feel happier when you go fast. I don't know. I've forgotten the difference long ago, because it really doesn't matter, so long as you move.

Words bounce. Words, if you let them, will do what they want to do and what they have to do.

Too much action with too little intent makes for wasteful exertion of energy and the confusion between movement and progress.

Take action! An inch of movement will bring you closer to your goals than a mile of intention.

Gloating is a superficial glowing, floating is an idle flowing, and bloatedness is the paralysis of blowing up; because silent movement results in loud victories.

Inertness is the universal sign of death. Nothing can exist without movement.

You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.

Education is the movement from darkness to light

Movement is expressive. I've never denied that. I don't think there's such a thing as abstract dance.

Abu Mazen is not a member of the Zionist movement. He is a Palestinian.

Enslaving each other was what human beings had done for ages. And the abolitionist movement was greeted with incredulity. Conservative spokesmen ridiculed the abolitionists as liberals, progressives, do-gooders, meddlers, and activists.

The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.

Automobile companies are always allergic to any kind of environmental movement.