It is better to be tired from physical exertion than to be fatigued by the 'poisons' generated by nervousness while lying awake.
Joseph PilatesMan should bear in mind and ponder over the Greek admonition - Not Too Much, Not Too Little.
Joseph PilatesDaily, from sunrise to sunset, the radio, newspapers and magazines broadcast to the world how to maintain health, how to regain health... the conflicting information, expressive of the different opinions of these various health authorities, has proved to be nothing less than confusion.
Joseph PilatesContrology is not a system of haphazard exercises designed to produce only bulging muscles. ... Nor does Contrology err either by over-developed a few muscles at the expense of all others with resulting loss of grace and suppleness, or a sacrifice of the heart or lungs. Rather, it was conceived to limber and stretch muscles and ligaments so that your body will be as supple as that of a cat and not muscular like that of the body of a brewery-truck horse, or the muscle-bound body of the professional weight lifter you so much admire at the circus.
Joseph Pilates