Supple Quotes
48 quotes by 38 authors
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Men are born soft and supple; dead, they are stiff and hard. Plants are born tender and pliant; dead, they are brittle and dry. Thus…
— Laozi
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Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind; it is not a matter of rosy cheeks, red lips and supple…
— Samuel Ullman
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Man at his birth is supple and tender, but in death, he is rigid and hard. Thus, suppleness and tenderness accompany life, but rigidity and…
— Laozi
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Devote the mind to confusion and we know only too well, if we´re honest, that it will become a dark master of confusion, adept in…
— Sogyal Rinpoche
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Trade is the natural enemy of all violent passions. Trade loves moderation, delights in compromise, and is most careful to avoid anger. It is patient,…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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Whoever would have his body supple, easy and healthful should learn to dance.
— Socrates
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You'll never make your mark as a writer unless you develop a respect for words and a curiosity about their shades of meaning that is…
— William Zinsser
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Conversation! Supple sentences, with first and second meanings and overtones beyond, outrageous challenges with cleverly planned slip-points, rebuttals of elegant brevity; deceptions and guiles, patient…
— Jack Vance
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Whenever we find stiffness in the body, our mind should be especially supple. It is never the stiffness in our bodies that limits our practice,…
— Geeta Iyengar
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May my mind stroll about hungry and fearless and thirsty and supple and even if its sunday may i be wrong for whenever men are…
— E E Cummings
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Contrology is not a system of haphazard exercises designed to produce only bulging muscles. ... Nor does Contrology err either by over-developed a few muscles…
— Joseph Pilates
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Physical fitness is the first requisite of happiness. In order to achieve happiness, it is imperative to gain mastery of your body. If at the…
— Joseph Pilates
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All things such as grass and trees are soft and supple in life. At their death they are withered and dry.
— Laozi
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When life begins we are tender and weak When life ends we are stiff and rigid All things, including the grass and trees, are soft…
— Laozi
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I am inspired by anything beautiful. Sometime it's a pair of eyes or flowing gorgeous hair, other times it's the sky or a sunset. I've…
— Nadine Velazquez
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The mark of a moderate man is freedom from his own ideas. Tolerant like the sky, all-pervading like sunlight, firm like a mountain, supple like…
— Laozi
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The objective of the Classical Art of Riding is to train the horse not only to be brilliant in the movements and the exercises of…
— Alois Podhajsky
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Love is the most important thing in our lives, a passion for which we would fight or die, and yet we're reluctant to linger over…
— Diane Ackerman
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Attending fully and becoming supple, Can you be as a newborn babe?
— Laozi
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If a country is governed with tolerance, the people are comfortable and honest. If a country is governed with repression, the people are depressed and…
— Laozi
Who Wrote These Supple Quotes
38 authors contributed a total of 48 Supple Quotes, led by these top contributors: