Women are better at reading body language everywhere in the world. As a matter of fact, it's associated with the female hormone estrogen. Women are better at figuring out of tone of voice, reading your face and posture and gesture.
The fact is that these are not my children; they are figures on silvery paper slivered out of time. They represent my children at a fraction of a second on one particular afternoon with infinite variables of light, expression, posture, muscle tension, mood, wind and shade. These are not my children at all; these are children in a photograph.
Worship is a posture of life that takes as its primary purpose the understanding of what it really means to love and revere God.
Good posture can be successfully acquired only when the entire mechanism of the body is under perfect control.
[I have seen] workers in whom certain morbid affections gradually arise from some particular posture of the limbs or unnatural movements of the body called for while they work. Such are the workers who all day stand or sit, stoop or are bent double, who run or ride or exercise their bodies in all sorts of [excess] ways. . . . the harvest of diseases reaped by certain workers. . . [from] irregular motions in unnatural postures of the body.
Sin is not an unfortunate slip or a regrettable act; it is a posture of defiance against a holy God.
In the zazen posture, your mind and body have, great power to accept things as they are, whether agreeable or disagreeable.
The liberal posture really requires a willingness to give to others, and that works, as I say, when you have an expanding pie. But if you don't have an expanding pie, everyone starts hunkering down.
Razo hopped back up and adopted a posture that said he was completely unruffled, never had been, and in fact was ready to do something manly like lift boulders or swallow live worms.
Postural exercises such as yoga, Pilates, Egoscues, Alexander technique and martial arts are about avoiding pain and injury as much as helping you feel good. Attractive men and women have good posture.
To adopt the posture of the hero is the most unheroic of all acts.
A statesman doesn't try to pull himself up by dragging someboy else down, and he doesn't try to convience people they're victims just so he can posture as their savior.
If you're a fish and you want to be a fish-stick, you have to have very good posture.
Art changes posture and posture changes innocent bystanders.
Let no man posture as an advocate of peace if he proposes or supports any social system that initiates the use of force against individual men, in any form.
When the asana is correct, there is lightness, a freedom. Freedom comes when every part of the body is active. Let us be free in whatever posture we are doing. Let us be full in whatever we do.
Elegance is achieved when all that is superfluous has been discarded and the human being discovers simplicity and concentration: the simpler and more sober the posture, the more beautiful it will be.
We must take care always to keep ourselves, by suitable establishments, in a respectable defensive posture.
Pilates is amazing, my posture is so much better and I'm even starting to get muscles on my tummy - it's incredible.
Be mild and firm. Apply your best exertions to put us in a proper posture of defense.
