Movement Quotes

“Revolutions are the things of the past. The current generation believes we get one life, and we should enjoy and live it to the fullest. That’s why they don’t know what sacrifice means. Revolution requires sacrifices and the people of today are neither willing nor capable of sacrifice. Therefore, we can’t have revolutions today. All we can have now are movements.”
― Abhaidev, The Gods Are Not Dead

“Fly, even if for just a moment.
You may land somewhere different.
You may land somewhat different.
Leap.”
― Shellen Lubin

“You don't find meaning and then move. You move and the meaning will emerge.”
― Shellen Lubin

“Hush now sweet girl, your gentleness is often misunderstood in this world. One day it will all make sense, the torch you carry will light up your dreams. All of the experiences will serve to bring you home.”
― Maria Teresa Teresa Pratico, My Soul's Dance, Accepting the Shadows while Embracing the Light: Poems about Death and Rebirth

“We are born borderless until we touch”
― K. Eltinaé, The Moral Judgement of Butterflies

“Radiating healing light from the inside out. Broadcasting on the highest frequency. Connecting every human being. Healing humanity, on heart at a time.”
― Maria Teresa Teresa Pratico, My Soul's Dance, Accepting the Shadows while Embracing the Light: Poems about Death and Rebirth

“Awareness means to slow down,
take it smaller, stay in the moment,
move in this body.”
― Debbie Rosas, The Nia Technique: The High-Powered Energizing Workout that Gives You a New Body and a New Life

“(...) people have been taught never to do anything wrong, and then they become so hesistant, so fearful, so frightened of doing wrong, that they become stuck. They cannot move, something wrong may happen. So they become like rocks, they lose all movement.”
― Osho, Courage: The Joy of Living Dangerously

“Nothing stays avant-garde forever; you have to keep moving.”
― Maggie Nelson, On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint

“Your comfort zone isn't nourishing you anymore. What are you going to do about this?”
― Robin S. Baker

“So, one good indicator of healthiness is movement. Whereas if you're stuck, that stuckness is a good sign to go get help." As with your car stuck at the side of the road, Donnovan says, you don't want to just sit there.”
― Julie Lythcott-Haims, Your Turn: How to Be an Adult

“Life cannot, not even for a millisecond, remain exactly how it is.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Walking didn’t solve the problem, but it gave me a way to keep moving. Walking didn’t bring me to a destination, yet it gave me a way to negotiate the unknown. By holding space for my doubts, walking rescued me.”
― Ranjani Rao, Rewriting My Happily Ever After - A Memoir of Divorce and Discovery

“I needed to move, but I also needed time—time to find my new rhythm in this place and in this phase of life.”
― Ranjani Rao, Rewriting My Happily Ever After - A Memoir of Divorce and Discovery

“Life is movement. Life is action.”
― Ranjani Rao, Rewriting My Happily Ever After - A Memoir of Divorce and Discovery

“At its best, the Young Lords offered revolutionary ideals and examples of movement-building strategies and tactics, and tough, hard-hitting, and painful lessons from its setbacks and failures.”
― Iris Morales, Through the Eyes of Rebel Women: The Young Lords, 1969-1976

“you can’t possibly move people who don’t have a collective understanding. We can’t mobilize masses of people in a direction without having a clear sense of what we are mobilizing around.

(Interview with Truthout)”
― Bree Newsome Bass

“If you are routinely moving during sleep, you are experiencing sleep fragmentation and will likely have daytime fatigue and sleepiness. This is called Sleep Movement Disorder.”
― Steven Magee, Hypoxia, Mental Illness & Chronic Fatigue

“A continual movement in the wrong direction will only take you further from your destiny”
― Rodney D Roby

“Women need to know that they can reject the powerful’s definition of their reality… Many poor and exploited women, especially non-white women, would have been unable to develop positive self-concepts if they had not exercised their power to reject the powerful’s definition of their reality.”
― bell hooks, Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center

“Hey baton!
Can you play my cock's role? Of course not;
I forgot
Your head hasn't any hole”
― Sobhan Ganji, The Thinnest Condom

“You ever stare at the flickering of a well-built fire? I move like that.”
― Darnell Lamont Walker

“Are you a serious player, or just someone larking and larping around, and trying on different dresses as you eat your vegan pseudo-burgers – the meat without the meat, the thing without the thing? Citizens, do you want the revolution without the revolution? Well?”
― David Sinclair, Without the Mob, There Is No Circus

“The leader of Hyperianism never mentions Illuminism. Not ever. And that’s because, if he ever did, he would be exposed as a messenger for others rather than the Savior he wants to pose as. His own narcissism and Messiah Complex have destroyed him because they have made him constantly lie about the fundamental basis of Hyperianism. His egotism forbade him from accepting the role he was supposed to have – that of messenger. He didn’t have his own message; he was delivering the message of others. That’s the blunt fact of it. There is nobility and worth in the messenger role, but the leader of Hyperianism wasn’t satisfied. He was compelled to present himself as the Main Man. He never was, and never will be.”
― David Sinclair, Without the Mob, There Is No Circus

“Forgive moving forward; begrudge to go backward. It doesn't take any strength to hold a grudge.”
― Dr. Lucas D. Shallua

“Lots of speech will reduce action, silence will generate action for body movement.”
― Kamaran Ihsan Salih

“The door hinge will rust if it is not used.”
― Hua Tuo

“Security cameras turn on when there is a movement. The main focus being on its leader.”
― Ljupka Cvetanova, Yet Another New Land

“One of the most fascinating and unexpected findings was the role of wind in a tree’s life. Before reaching maturity, many trees in the biosphere snapped under their own weight. Researchers learned later this was caused by lack of stress wood—a wood that forms in place of normal wood as a response to external forces. This necessary mechanical acclimation was lacking in the biosphere trees, preventing them from surviving. There’s an underlying principle at work here. Stress creates resilience. Lack of stress creates weakness. In the case of the biosphere trees, the stress they were missing was wind. Wind doesn’t just blow in one direction, or at one speed. It’s constantly changing directions, slowing down, speeding up—creating an infinite array of forces for the trees to counterbalance against. Ironically, the lack of varied movement and counterforce is what felled the trees.

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― Scott H Hogan, Built from Broken: A Science-Based Guide to Healing Painful Joints, Preventing Injuries, and Rebuilding Your Body

“Everything is in flux, everything moves all the time. Nothing remains the same forever.”
― Ryan Gelpke, We Tragic Few