Famous Quotes & Sayings

Wayne Dyer

To successfully open the door to heightened awareness, we must open it inward.

Wayne Dyer

Enlightenment is the "quiet acceptance of what is". I believe the truly enlightened beings are those who refuse to allow themselves to be distressed over things that simply are the way they are.

William Cowper

Meditation here may think down hours to moments. Here the heart may give a useful lesson to the head and learning wiser grow without his books.

Wayne Coyne

When I do yoga, it gets all sweaty, and the best thing for dried up hair isn't shampoo, it's sweat.

Vidya Balan

I work out at home. I don't have a gym, but I use light weights. I do calisthenics, which is basically using your own body weight, like you do in yoga, to strengthen your core. I also do a bit of cardio.

Victoria Moran

Yoga will always be transformationa l, even when it stops being cool.

Russell Simmons

I read "The Yoga Sutras" every day.And also the "The Bhagavad Gita." Those two books sit by my bed.

Russell Simmons

I don't miss a day of yoga. I don't miss my meditation... They're way more important.

Russell Simmons

When the mind is totally still, there's only bliss. I got a piece of that reality from my first yoga class, from smiling and breathing in every difficult pose. I went, "Oh my God! I'm clear! I love this!"

Rumi

Speak a new language so that the world will be a new world.

Sting

Like music, yoga is a journey -- one that is long enough so you keep developing, and keep learning. I don't see an end to it.

Sting

Yoga has enriched my life...It is a great way to offset the downsides of touring by bringing much-needed peace and sanity into what can be a hectic life. Like music, yoga is a journey - one that is long enough so you keep developing, and keep learning. I don't see an end to it.

Sting

I think there's room for both private exploration and group work in Yoga.

Sting

I think the time is right for yoga, we really are living in a very complex time - a time of great turmoil and change. Yoga is a good antidote to all that. It is almost like music in a way; there's no end to 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.

Terence McKenna

In shamanism and certain yogas, Taoist yoga, claim very clearly that the purpose is to familiarize yourself with this after-death body, in life, and then the act of dying will not create confusion in the psyche. You will recognize what is happening. You will know what to do. And you will make the clean break.

Terence McKenna

Patanjali specifically says that there are three paths to the goal of yoga. And they are, control of the breath, control of posture, and light-filled herbs. It says it right there. Stanza 6 of the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali.

Scarlett Pomers

Yoga always made me feel really good about myself.

Shunryu Suzuki

Treat every moment as your last. It is not preparation for something else.

Laura Prepon

My fitness routine includes things that are not stressful on my body - swimming, yoga, stretching, and rebounding.

Susan Strasberg

I meditate, I do yoga and I have a lot of friends who are healers.....And if none of that works, I go by a chocolate bar and a bottle of cognac.

Susan Mitchell

Our greatest fear is that we will lose the love in our life... that we will be abandoned, left alone, bereaved, misunderstood, deprived, hated and rejected....but we can never be OUT OF LOVE. We are love and if our minds separate ourselves from who we really are it is a painful delusion. Ego personalities, including our own, might separate ourselves from love but love never dies because it is what we are made of.

Taylor Schilling

I started doing yoga in college, so that has just become a staple of a self-care routine for my mind and my body. My body craves it at this point, so I do it two to three times a week, sometimes more. I practice Vinyasa style yoga and sometimes mix it up.

Taylor Schilling

I like to do yoga, Pilates, dance, and things like that.

Sharon Salzberg

The critical element in meditation practice is beginning again. Everyone loses focus at times, everyone loses interest at times, and everyone gets distracted over and over again. What is essential, and also incredibly transforming, is realizing that we have the ability to begin again, without blaming or judging ourselves, without thinking we have failed, without losing heart, we can, and need to, constantly be beginning again.

Talulah Riley

Yoga is the one L.A. thing I actually like.

Swami Vivekananda

The chief helps in this liberation are Abhyasa and Vairagya. Vairagya is non - attachment to life, because it is the will to enjoy that brings all this bondage in its train; and Abhyasa is constant practice of any one of the Yogas.