Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.