Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Kevin Bacon

You have to have something in your life that's more important than the work. People don't really like to admit that. I think that you have to find something else. I don't know what it is. Is it yoga or God or politics? For me it's just family.

Kelli Williams

I do prenatal yoga and walk a lot.

James Thurber

There is no exception to the rule that every rule has an exception.

Ellen DeGeneres

I was in yoga the other day. I was in full lotus position. My chakras were all aligned. My mind is cleared of all clatter and I'm looking out of my third eye and everything that I'm supposed to be doing. It's amazing what comes up, when you sit in that silence. "Mama keeps whites bright like the sunlight, Mama's got the magic of Clorox 2."

Emily Blunt

I'm about to do my second Bikram yoga class in Anchorage, Alaska. It's the only way to stay warm. I've got to get into shape. I've been eating nothing but fish and chips.

Holly Madison

Aside from performing in 'Peepshow,' I do yoga once a week and I like Pilates. I'm more into toning exercises over aerobics. I like working with a trainer at a private gym, but I also like going with friends because you don't get bored or distracted.

Hermann Hesse

We are not going in circles, we are going upwards. The path is a spiral; we have already climbed many steps.

Helen Reddy

Yoga is wonderful. It clears up most health problems. It also gives you an overview.

Narendra Modi

We are not only celebrating International Yoga day, we are training the human mind to begin a new era of peace, Sadbhavana.

Narendra Modi

International Yoga Day is a reflection of the largest knowledge based peoples' movement the world has ever seen.

Narendra Modi

Yoga should not be just an exercise, but a means to connect with the world and with nature. It should bring a change in our lifestyle and create awareness within us.

Narendra Modi

Yog is not only about Rog Mukti but also Bhog Mukti. Yoga can be our cultural ambassador. We can reach out to the world through this medium.

Narendra Modi

Yoga has spread harmony between man and nature. It is a holistic approach to health and wellbeing.

Melanie Klein

Feminism freed my mind. Yoga freed my body. It's one thing to intellectualize self-love and another to embody it.

Michael Franti

It's that transformative nature of love and music and yoga that really inspires me.

Michael Franti

Music and yoga have a great synergy.

Michael Franti

One of the things I love about yoga is that it brings you into the present moment. You aren't worried about what will happen tomorrow and you aren't thinking about what happened yesterday. It's about opening your heart and living from your heart.

Martina McBride

I do yoga, lunges, crunches, things like that for 40 minutes twice a week. For cardio I usually do the elliptical, treadmill or walking.

Mariel Hemingway

Starting out in a beginner class and really understanding the fundamentals of yoga is really important.

Mariel Hemingway

For me, first, it's finding quiet in my life - and I do that through yoga and meditation. It's also been a matter of changing the way I eat, because I think what we eat can inform who we are; food is a chemical and a drug to a certain extent.

Mariel Hemingway

Yoga teaches you how to listen to your body.

Mariel Hemingway

A lot of exercise is mindless; you can have music or the radio on and not be aware. But if you're aware in anything you do - and it doesn't have to be yoga - it changes you. Being present changes you.

Mahatma Gandhi

Truth is one, paths are many.

Joe Rogan

As a longtime practitioner of yoga and a person who's been involved in physical fitness my whole life, I can tell you, yoga helps you achieve altered states of consciousness. It is not just stretching. The only way you can say that it's stretching is if you haven't done it, or that you haven't done it rigorously for a long period of time.