Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ellen DeGeneres

For someone like me, who loves to sweat and push herself, it's a challenge to slow down, to sit, to breathe and hold poses.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Yoga is just good for you.

Bill Phillips

No matter who you are, no matter what you do, you absolutely, positively do have the power to change.

David Duchovny

Every day I try to do breathing exercises, meditation, and yoga. These things sound awfully cliche, but they help me slow down and try to point to a truth.

Bear Grylls

I train five days a week hard - but it is short and sharp - 30 to 40 minutes of functional and pretty dynamic body-strength circuits, then I do a good yoga session on the sixth day, then I rest.

Eden Sher

I actually got really interested in traveling to India after studying yoga. I have this wanderlust and don't like doing things without knowing about the history.

Carre Otis

But I would assert that despite the wide variety of yoga options and individual preferences, there is one universal element: the union of consciousness and movement, breath and awareness.

Carre Otis

When I consider the deeper meaning of yoga, I realize it's about a lot more than simply performing a variety of postures on a mat.

Carlos Castaneda

To compare Tensegrity with yoga or t'ai chi is not possible. It has a different origin and a different purpose. The origin is shamanic, the purpose is shamanic.

Chogyam Trungpa

Meditation practice is regarded as a good and in fact excellent way to overcome warfare in the world; our own warfare as well as greater warfare.

Chogyam Trungpa

In the practice of sitting meditation you relate to your daily life all the time. Meditation practice brings our neuroses to the surface rather than hiding them at the bottom of our minds. It enables us to relate to our lives as something workable.

Edgar Cayce

Meditation is listening to the divine within

Jiddu Krishnamurti

To understand the immeasurable, the mind must be extraordinarily quiet, still.

Eva Mendes

It's tapping into something so deep that when I reap the rewards, I do not even know I'm reaping them. It's a more overall kinda thing.

Mary Pipher

With meditation I found a ledge above the waterfall of my thoughts.

Peter Matthiessen

The purpose of meditation practice is not enlightenment; it is to pay attention even at extraordinary times, to be of the present, nothing-but-in-the-present, to bear this mindfulness of now into each event of ordinary life.

Pema Chodron

Meditation practice isn't about trying to throw ourselves away and become something better. It's about befriending who we are already.

Nhat Hanh

Meditation is not passive sitting in silence. It is sitting in awareness, free from distraction, and realizing the clear understanding that arises from concentration.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

I told Warren if he mentions Prop. 13 one more time, he has to do 500 push-ups.

Janis Ian

Going off the road just leaves me more time to be a writer.

Annie Dillard

I'm a housewife: I spend far more time on housework than anything else.

Guy Finley

The more time we spend considering the shortcomings of others, the smaller a person we become.

Mark Twain

If I had more time, I would have written less.

Sean Connery

I admit I'm being paid well, but it's no more than I deserve. After all, I've been screwed more times than a hooker.

Peter Dinklage

Call me Elf......one more time!

Sete Gibernau

With roadracing, it takes a lot more time and money.