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“Usually, I practice poses in this order: standing, balance, hamstrings and core), hips, backbends, and restorative—however, don’t be afraid to mix”
― Jessamyn Stanley, Every Body Yoga: Let Go of Fear, Get On the Mat, Love Your Body.

“Cannibals? Who is not a cannibal? I tell you it will be more tolerable for the Fejee that salted down a lean missionary in his cellar against a coming famine; it will be more tolerable for that provident Fejee, I say, in the day of judgement, than for thee, civilized and enlightened gourmand, who nailest geese to the ground and feastest on their bloated livers in thy pate de fois gras.”
― Herman Melville, Moby Dick

“Curiously enough, one cannot read a book; one can only reread it. A good reader, a major reader, and active and creative reader is a rereader.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lectures on Literature

“A blade of grass is the journeywork of the stars”
― Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass