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Rectitude carried to excess hardens into stiffness; benevolence indulged beyond measure sinks into weakness.

Trouble has no necessary connection with discouragement. Discouragement has a germ of its own, as different from trouble as arthritis is different from a stiff joint.

Mostly getting old is boring. I hate the stiffness in the bones. I was physically arrogant for years. I don’t like it now that I have difficulty getting around. But a certain equanimity sets in, a certain detachment. Things seem less desperately important than they once did, and that’s a pleasure.

Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to break than a stiff one.

Your body’s ability to function as a clean and efficient channel is limited by stiffness, lack of strength, and lack of endurance. Your mind’s ability is limited by the way it thinks about itself, by the way you think about you. The process of yoga is one of undoing the obstructions and limitations in your body and mind that inhibit the free flow of creative life force.

Even when I have to write a simple letter I’m scared stiff as if faced with looming seasickness.

No, women like you don’t write. They carve onion sculptures and potato statues. They sit in dark corners and braid their hair in new shapes and twists in order to control the stiffness, the unruliness, the rebelliousness.

No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else. All the dogmatic stations in life have the effect of fixing a certain stiffness of attitude forever, as though they mesmerised the subject.

Pedantry, in the common acceptation of the word, means an absurd ostentation of learning, and stiffness of phraseology, proceeding from a misguided knowledge of books and a total ignorance of men.

Bread may not always nourish us; but it always does us good, it even takes stiffness out of our joints, and makes us supple and buoyant, when we knew not what ailed us, to recognize any generosity in man or Nature, to share any unmixed and heroic joy.

A stiff apology is a second insult… The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt.

The public must suffer untold pangs from the stiffness, the deliberate stifling of emotion, on the part of many British actors.

People that keep stiff upper lips find that it’s hard to smile.

Whenever we find stiffness in the body, our mind should be especially supple. It is never the stiffness in our bodies that limits our practice, it is always the stiffness of our mind.

Firmness or stiffness of the mind is not from adherence to truth, but submission to prejudice.

Everybody’s for democracy in principle. It’s only in practice that the thing gives rise to stiff objections.

I’m a working stiff, baby, just like everybody else.