Joseph Pilates > Quotes

“Physical fitness is the first requisite of happiness.”
― Joseph Pilates, A Pilates' Primer: The Millennium Edition: Return to Life Through Contrology and Your Health

“Telephones, automobiles, and economic pressure all combine to create physical letdown and mental stress so great that today practically no home is entirely free from sufferers of some form of nervous tension.”
― Joseph Pilates, Pilates' Return to Life Through Contrology

“the term "play" as we use it here, embraces every possible form of PLEASURABLE LIVING.”
― Joseph Pilates, Pilates' Return to Life Through Contrology

“Lazy breathing converts the lungs, figuratively speaking, into a cemetery for the deposition of diseased, dying, and dead germs as well as supplying an ideal haven for the multiplication of other harmful germs.”
― Joseph Pilates, Pilates' Return to Life Through Contrology