Prolonged sitting can cause stiffness in your lower back.

“The physiology of inactivity theory suggests that prolonged sitting also causes weight gain by creating imbalances in critical metabolic hormones such as leptin, which…

— Mark Sisson

“But sometimes, the most alarming of problems only require the simplest of solutions. The only way to combat prolonged sitting is to keep moving…

— Natalie Johnson

Pedantry, in the common acceptation of the word, means an absurd ostentation of learning, and stiffness of phraseology, proceeding from a misguided knowledge of…

— Henry Mackenzie

Very often, I confess, the teller of dreams bores me. His dream could perhaps interest me if it were frankly worked on. But to…

— Gaston Bachelard

Bread may not always nourish us; but it always does us good, it even takes stiffness out of our joints, and makes us supple…

— Henry David Thoreau

“The city became for me the ideal of what I wanted to be as a grown-up. Friendly, but never gushing, cool but not frigid…

— Maya Angelou

I think people are very stiff. Money makes people stiff, and we want it, and we have to pay the penalty. I never agreed…

— John Cassavetes

“His elbows cracked loudly when he straightened his arms, and something hitched and snapped in his right shoulder when he moved it the wrong…

— Denis Johnson

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…

— Doris Lessing

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…

— Edwidge Danticat

Vipassana arises as you pay awareness to the inner and outer experience unfolding at the present moment. Vipassana is not associated with any rigid…

— Amit Ray

“The world needs someone they can admire from a distance; from a very far distance.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

Eutrapelia . "A happy and gracious flexibility," Pericles calls this quality of the Athenians...lucidity of thought, clearness and propriety of language, freedom from prejudice…

— Matthew Arnold

No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else. All the dogmatic stations in…

— Henry Adams

If you can imagine how it feels to live in a fluid, light balanced body, free of pain, stiffness and chronic stress, at ease…

— Ida Rolf