Famous Quotes & Sayings

Patricia Velasquez

I do hot yoga. I try to keep one hour a day where I have space to reflect and meditate and take care of me and what is going on inside. This way, I can be a better person to be around.

Madonna Ciccone

I've been practicing yoga very seriously for a little over a year and I believe that helped my voice and affected my singing.

Lizzie Brochere

In my day-to-day, I do a bit of yoga, I go biking, I read, I watch shows, I go to music concerts.

Nicole Trunfio

I try to go to the gym three to four times a week and mix it up with yoga or a personal trainer.

Nico Tortorella

I work out a lot - five, six, days a week. I take yoga classes and go to the gym - I love doing it and I have the time to do it. Not everybody has that option.

Patanjali

Yoga is the stilling of the fluctuations of the mind.

Patanjali

Yoga is mind wave quieting.

Patanjali

Yoga takes you into the present moment, the only place where life exists.

Patanjali

Yoga is a practical method for making one's life purposeful, useful and noble.

Patanjali

The obstacles that distract thought are disease, apathy, doubt, carelessness, indolence, dissipation, false vision, failure to attain a firm basis in yoga, and restlessness.

Patanjali

The wisdom obtained in the higher states of consciousness is different from that obtained by inference and testimony as it refers to particulars.

Patanjali

With great respect and love, NOW the blessings of Yoga instruction are offered.

Patanjali

Asanas bring perfection in body, beauty in form, grace, strength, compactness, and the hardness and brilliance of a diamond.

Patanjali

Chanting is one of the most traditional and first Yoga practices. It helps to open the throat area and is a great way to learn some Sanskrit and the Yoga Sutra.

Patanjali

Yoga is the cessation of mind.

Patanjali

For those who have an intense urge for Spirit and wisdom, it sits near them, waiting.

Patanjali

Yoga is the cessation of the movements of the mind. Then there is abiding in the Seer's own form.

Patanjali

If you can control the rising of the mind into ripples, you will experience Yoga.

Patanjali

Undisturbed calmness of mind is attained by cultivating friendliness toward the happy, compassion for the unhappy, delight in the virtuous, and indifference toward the wicked.

Patanjali

A mind free from all disturbances is Yoga.

Patanjali

Yoga is the practice of quieting the mind.

Patanjali

Yoga is the settling of the mind into silence. When the mind has settled, we are established in our essential nature, which is unbounded Consciousness. Our essential nature is usually overshadowed by the activity of the mind.

Mehmet Oz

Make the driving force in your life love.

Marianne Williamson

Ego says, "Once everything falls into place, I'll feel peace". Spirit says, "Find your peace, and then everything will fall into place".

Chris Rock

Why do people do yoga? To clear their minds? I embrace the clutter in my head.

Misha Collins

I occasionally go to a yoga class. Everyone looks so limber and coordinated compared to me. I feel like I scare my classmates.

Eddie George

I can do crunches all day long, but in yoga my core was challenged in a way that I never felt before.

Eckhart Tolle

You can't argue with what is.... Well, you can, but if you do, you suffer.

Holly Madison

I have a treadmill in my house, which is great because even if I jump on it for a little bit, it makes me feel better. I love yoga and Pilates too. I have a private Pilates instructor I go to once a week.

Lara Stone

I did easy yoga and I found it a bit boring. I'm now doing a more difficult one now and I'm enjoying it a bit more. I occasionally still work out with my trainer Tracy Anderson.

Swami Vivekananda

Anything that is secret and mysterious in this system of Yoga should be at once rejected. The best guide in life is strength. In spirituality, as in all other matters, discard everything that weakens you. Have nothing to do with it. Mystery-mongering weakens the human brain. It has well-nigh destroyed Yoga, one of the grandest of sciences

Swami Vivekananda

The Tapas and the other hard Yogas that were practiced in other Yugas do not work now. What is needed in this Yuga is giving, helping others.

Sri Aurobindo

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