Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Kimberly Williams-Paisley

I need to go to my yoga class - I love hot yoga!

Kajol

I love my body. And, I'm always working out. I'm an exercise freak, be it cardio, weights, t'ai chi or yoga.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

One must know oneself as one is, not as one wishes to be, which is merely an ideal and therefore fictitious, unreal; it is only that which is that can be transformed, not that which you wish to be.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Yoga exercises are excellent; the speaker does them every day, for an hour or more; but that is merely physical exercise, to keep the body healthy, and so on.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Each breath is transforming me into thine image.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Intelligence comes into being when the mind, the heart and the body are really harmonious.

Jeremy Piven

I do yoga. I've been doing yoga for over 20 years and I love it.

Gillian Anderson

I mean the whole thing about meditation and yoga is about connecting to the higher part of yourself, and then seeing that every living thing is connected in some way.

Paul Harvey

When people come to Yoga, they are perhaps coming to it at the end of a long series of alternatives, and they're looking for something that's going to act very quickly. But Yoga is not a quick answer.

Paul Harvey

Yoga aims to bring about a situation where the mind is quieter and more effective. It's not only about relaxation, it's also about improving our energy. It's about making us more decisive and at the same time better able to judge a situation clearly.

Judah Friedlander

I'm actually banned from the Himalayas, because I'm too good at yoga.

Parker Posey

I've done a lot of crafts in my day. I learned how to do pottery, yoga... and I just wanted to share and talk and write.

Lily Cole

I love yoga. I don't do it as much as I'd like to, but I feel wonderful when I do.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

I don't go to a gym, I don't do yoga. I don't do personal training.

Marianne Faithfull

I do yoga. I do tai chi. I do a lot to keep my body and my spirit together so I can work.

Mike Colter

I don't practice yoga, but it's on my list of things to try again. I gave it a shot, but the class was too advanced for me, and I felt overwhelmed and a little embarrassed.

Nelly

Yoga has been something that's always there to take with me and practice throughout any journey. There's no place I've ever been where yoga hasn't fit itself in. I currently work on a commercial fishing boat in Alaska and I am still able to find time to lay my mat on the deck and practice what makes me the best me I can be, thanks to yoga.

Nhat Hanh

You have to do it by yourself. You can not do it alone.

Nhat Hanh

Every path, every street in the world is your walking meditation path.

Nhat Hanh

Breathe and you dwell in the here and now, breath and you see impermanence is life.

Nhat Hanh

If we are not fully ourselves, truly in the present moment, we miss everything.

Nhat Hanh

You are like a candle. Imagine you are sending light out all around you. All your words, thoughts and actions are going in many directions. If you say something kind, your kind words go in many directions, and you yourself go with them. We are ...transforming and continuing in a different form at every moment.

Kristian Bush

I have always heard that uber-successful people who write books about how to become uber-successful all have one thing in common: They all meditate every day. I consider yoga my meditation.

Koren Zailckas

There's a limit to my patience with anything that smacks of metaphysics. I squirm at the mention of "mind expansion" or "warm healing energy." I don't like drum circles, public nudity or strangers touching my feet.

Olivia Wilde

I love yoga and hiking - I think that's the perfect combo.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Diseases of the soul are more dangerous and more numerous than those of the body.

Kelly Brook

I've never had one of those amazing yoga bodies. My body is what it is. I am sure if I went on a crash diet, lost two stone and toned up I could make loads of money by making fitness videos and selling my story to the tabloids. But I don't want to encourage women to be anything other than what they are. That's very important to me.

Pablo Picasso

When it comes right down to it, all you have is your self. Your Self is a sun with a thousand rays...

Paul Sorvino

When I was 25, I was in a show called 'Bajour,' and I was going to leave the show because I couldn't breathe. I couldn't sing, and I couldn't do the basic dance steps I had to do. Fortunately, two actors in the production - who were also yoga instructors - taught me some breathing exercises, and my asthma was cured that day.