Famous Quotes & Sayings

Elizabeth Gilbert

We don't realize that, somewhere within us all, there does exist a supreme self who is eternally at peace.

Eknath Easwaran

Through meditation and by giving full attention to one thing at a time, we can learn to direct attention where we choose.

Jimmy Fallon

After facing backlash from customers, Subway says it will remove a chemical in its bread that is also found in yoga mats. Some people were like, 'You mean I've been eating a dangerous chemical?' While most people were like, 'You mean I can eat my yoga mat?'

Liz Miller

Mood reflects the biology of the brain. How you feel is affected by the chemicals in the brain, and these are the same chemicals that form the basis of mood-altering drugs. You may use yoga, meditation, cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) or exercise to alter your mood, or revert to healthy eating, regular exercise and getting enough sleep.

M. F. K. Fisher

There is no chiropractic treatment, no Yoga exercise, no hour of meditation in a music-throbbing chapel, that will leave you emptier of bad thoughts than this homely ceremony of making bread.

M. F. K. Fisher

No yoga exercise, no meditation in a chapel filled with music will rid you of your blues better than the humble task of making your own bread.

James Thurber

There is no exception to the rule that every rule has an exception.

Maria Sharapova

I go to yoga classes and work on my core.

Maria Sharapova

I love yoga. I do yoga when I have time, which is not very often.

Mahatma Gandhi

Truth is one, paths are many.

Matthieu Ricard

Happiness is a state of inner fulfillment.

Matthieu Ricard

Happiness is a state of inner fulfillment, not the gratification of inexhaustible desires for outward things.

Matthieu Ricard

Worries are pointless. If there's a solution, there's no need to worry. If no solution exists, there's no point to worry.

Maya Angelou

I've learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way he/she handles these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage and tangled Christmas tree lights. I've learned that making a 'living' is not the same thing as 'making a life'. I've learned that whenever I decide something with an open heart, I usually make the right decision. I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw some things back.

John Astin

I get into certain yoga positions at times, when Im working out and for exercises. I use a little of it in some of my meditation, but I chant now and that sort of replaced it.

Mother Teresa

We do not need guns and bombs to bring peace, we need love and compassion.

Molly Sims

For an hour every day, I did something. I was on the elliptical or the treadmill, and if someone asked me to go to a class - whether it was spinning, boxing, yoga, you name it - I went. By the end of the month, I felt so good, I just kept going. I didn't want to lose my momentum.

Minnie Driver

I must know good yoga classes in about 25 cities on this planet.

Minnie Driver

I can set up shop anywhere. I've got my oils, I've got my yoga mat and I'm good to go. I must know good yoga classes in about 25 cities on this planet

Peace Pilgrim

We are all cells in the same body of humanity.

Paula Patton

Sometimes I do yoga, sometimes it's kickboxing, sometimes it's weight training, sometimes it's Pilates.

Penelope Cruz

I used to dance for seventeen years -classical ballet, which was very disciplined. I like yoga and Pilates, but I don't have the discipline to go to the gym.

Meher Baba

I only know one yoga: 'You Go.'

Peter McWilliams

Meditation creates more time than it takes.

Peter McWilliams

Some people think that meditation takes time away from physical accomplishment. Taken to extremes, of course, that's true. Most people, however, find that meditation creates more time than it takes.

Paulo Coelho

If something happens once, it may never happen again. If it happens twice it most likely will keep happening.

Paulo Coelho

The River adapts itself to whatever route prove possible, but the river never forgets its one objective: the sea. So fragile at its source, it gradually gathers the strength of the other rivers in encounters. And, after a certain point, its power is absolute.

Paulo Coelho

Fear exists until the moment when the unavoidable happens, after that we must waste none of our energy on it.

Sri Aurobindo

The practice of Yoga brings us face to face with the extraordinary complexity of our own being.

Sri Aurobindo

Everyone has in him something divine, something his own, a chance of perfection and strength in however small a sphere which God offers him to take or refuse. The task is to find it, develop it & use it. The chief aim of education should be to help the growing soul to draw out that in itself which is best and make it perfect for a noble use.

Sri Chinmoy

Nothing impresses me any more, save and except my own deep meditations.

Sri Chinmoy

Meditation stops the sound-loving mind.

Sri Chinmoy

When I meditate, I clearly see that God is already seated inside my heart.