Famous Quotes & Sayings

Elizabeth Gilbert

And then, in that regal silence, finally - I began to meditate on (and with) God.

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?'

Linda Evangelista

I eat super healthy and I'm super fit. I dabble in every type of fitness. I have a trainer and I go to the gym. I do yoga as well.

Lady Gaga

Yoga makes me feel like I can do anything.

Lewis Carroll

Whatever is worth doing is worth doing well.

Joseph Campbell

At first you might find that nothing happens there. But if you have a sacred space and use it, eventually something will happen. Your sacred space is where you find yourself again and again.

Joseph Campbell

The idea of Buddha consciousness is that all beings are Buddha beings, and your whole function in meditation and everything else is to find that Buddha consciousness within and live out of that, instead of the interests of the eyes and ears.

Joseph Campbell

No one in the world was ever you before, with your particular gifts and abilities and possibilities.

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.

John McAfee

We are aware of yoga only as a technique to gain physical strength, flexibility, or increased health. And indeed these are potent side effects of the practice. But that is what they are: side effects. To focus on these largely insignificant manifestations is to miss the point entirely.

Julie Andrews

I work out as little as I can for as much gain as I can. Yoga and a little bit of ballet -- only 30 or 40 minutes every other day. I keep supple for myself more than for roles.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Yoga is somewhat hard to quantify in terms of benefits because you see them in all the injuries you don't get.

Josh McDermitt

I'm on a constant yo-yo of health. I will go a week eating incredibly clean, but then I'll follow that up with a month's worth of binge eating. Then I hit the gym and eat clean, and then I mix it up with core exercises, yoga, Pilates, and sitting on an incline bench while checking my phone.

Joseph Pilates

You are only as young as your spine is flexible.

Judy Reyes

I've never loved spending time on the machines at the gym. But I have discovered an exercise regimen I can dedicate myself to: yoga. It's changed my body.

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.

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.

Patanjali

Yoga is the stilling of the fluctuations of the mind.

Patanjali

Yoga is mind wave quieting.