"Breathing is the first act of life, and…" — Joseph Pilates

"Breathing is the first act of life, and the last."

— Joseph Pilates

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62 Quotes by Joseph Pilates

Joseph Pilates has 62 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Contrology (Pilates) is complete coordination of body, mind, and spirit. Through Contrology you first purposefully acquire complete control of your…
Contrology develops the body uniformly, corrects wrong postures, restores physical vitality, invigorates the mind, and elevates the spirit.
A few well-designed movements, properly performed in a balanced sequence, are worth hours of doing sloppy calisthenics or forced contortion.
This is the equivalent of an “internal shower”. As the spring freshness born of the heavy rains and vast masses…
Physical fitness is the first requisite of happiness. Our interpretation of physical fitness is the attainment and maintenance of a…
Patience and persistence are vital qualities in the ultimate successful accomplishment of any worthwhile endeavor.
I must be right. Never an aspirin. Never injured a day in my life. The whole country, the whole world,…
The acquirement and enjoyment of physical well-being, mental calm and spiritual peace are priceless to their possessors if there be…
Physical fitness is the first requisite of happiness.
With body, mind, and spirit functioning perfectly as a coordinated whole, what else could reasonably be expected other than an…
It’s the mind itself which shapes the body.
A man is as young as his spinal column.

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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think. — Hannah Arendt
It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has… — Hannah Arendt
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
Quality is not an act, it is a habit. — Aristotle
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence,… — Aristotle
Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last. — Aristotle
Storytelling is fine as long as you can encourage people to act on the stories. — Karen Armstrong
Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is. — Malcolm Arnold
Criticize the act, not the person. — Mary Kay Ash
We like to engage in a normal publishing effort, which is to act in a responsible manner and make sure… — Julian Assange
Gardening is not a rational act. — Margaret Atwood
All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of… — Wystan Hugh Auden

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