"It is the mind itself which builds the…" — Joseph Pilates

"It is the mind itself which builds the body."

— Joseph Pilates

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62 Quotes by Joseph Pilates

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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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Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses. — Hannah Arendt
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure… — Aristotle
If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the… — M H Abrams
Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail… — Johann Arndt
Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds… — Mary Astell
The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa… — Chinua Achebe
Perception is reality. — Lee Atwater
I wish I had eight pairs of hands, and another body to shoot the specimens. — John James Audubon
If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do… — John James Audubon
Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All… — Saint Augustine

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