Rebecca Solnit Quotes

There is nothing a good long walk can't help work out.

We just want to walk. Our legs need to move to keep our minds from collapsing.

We should not exercise the body without the joint assistance of the mind; nor exercise the mind without the joint assistance of the body.

Above all, do not lose your desire to walk. Everyday, I walk myself into a state of well-being & walk away from every illness. I have walked myself into my best thoughts, and I know of no thought so burdensome that one cannot walk away from it. But by sitting still, & the more one sits still, the closer one comes to feeling ill. Thus if one just keeps on walking, everything will be all right.

Ideas come as you walk, Nietzsche said. Walking dissipates thoughts, Shankara taught.

I'm a walker. I enjoy walking, which I think psychologically expresses my feelings of wanting liberation without exerting myself too much.

Games lubricate the body and the mind.

You cannot exercise and be amused about it. You cannot integrate the dying bug into your core workout and hold to the position that you are a spiritual being. In this way, the body and the mind are each other's opposite unto death, which is why you have to choose which of them you are going to follow.

If you really care about your body, then your mind starts to work better.

Running! If there's any activity happier, more exhilarating, more nourishing to the imagination, I can't think what it might be. In running the mind flies with the body; the mysterious efflorescence of language seems to pulse in the brain, in rhythm with our feet and the swinging of our arms.

Walking has the best value as gymnastics of the mind.

If I could not walk far and fast, I think I should just explode and perish.

I think walking is very useful, like sleeping and dreaming, as something that's important to my ability to write.

Every day I walk myself into a state of well-being and walk away from every illness; I have walked myself into my best thoughts.

Exercise of the muscles keeps the body in health, and exercise of the brain brings peace of mind.

A good walk every day does wonders for my soul.

People need to dance. I'd say dance at least twice a day. That's how to get your energy up and how you keep you revolutionary spirit going. It's Emma Goldman who said, "Any revolution where I can't dance is not my revolution." I think that's the revolution we want.

Walking is good for the soul.

If I just keep putting one foot in front of the other, it stands to reason that I'm going to get there. I've begun to think we sit far more than we're supposed to." He smiled. "Why else would we have feet?

Exercise of body and exercise of mind are supplementary, and both may be made recreative and educative.

I think growing up it was never an issue for me to think about working out or having a healthy lifestyle because I danced so much. Then when I stopped dancing and I got into regular life mode, I didn't realize how much diet and nutrition and being active was so important. Not only for my physical state, but for my mental state, too. I think that's just as important as working out for your physical state.

An active mind cannot exist in an inactive body.

Somehow the body keeps life going despite the ravaging negations of the mind.