Famous Quotes & Sayings

Wayne Dyer

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

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.

Moby

I like tea and yoga, but I don't do yoga.

Kimberly Williams-Paisley

I need to go to my yoga class - I love hot yoga!

Kajol

I love my body. And, I'm always working out. I'm an exercise freak, be it cardio, weights, t'ai chi or yoga.

Patanjali

Yoga is the stilling of the fluctuations of the mind.

Patanjali

Yoga is mind wave quieting.

Patanjali

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

Patanjali

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

Tyler Perry

I always feed myself positivity. I turn to anything that teaches good, that teaches strength, and that you can make it. I swear to you that those kinds of thoughts come alive in your body and in anything you touch because your energy goes into everything you touch, everything you share and everything you speak. So, it's most important that you surround yourself with positivity always, and have it in your mind at all times.

Joseph Simmons

You don't always have to say something. Let your life be your message.

Peter Guber

Truth is a point of view, but authenticity can't be faked.

Louise Hay

Remember: you are the only person who thinks in your mind! You are the power and authority in your world.

Louise Hay

Know that you are the perfect age. Each year is special and precious, for you shall only live it once. Be comfortable with growing older.

John F. Kennedy

We are not here to curse the darkness, but to light the candle that can guide us through that darkness to a safe and sane future.

Malala Yousafzai

This is what my soul is telling me, be peaceful and love everyone.

Eckhart Tolle

Life is your deepest inner Being. It is already whole, complete, perfect.

John Lennon

I cannot be what I am not.

Nhat Hanh

Buddhism has to do with your daily life, with your suffering and with the suffering of the people around you.

Pico Iyer

The Dalai Lama, these days, encourages Westerners not to take up Buddhism, partly because he feels that our roots are deep in other traditions, and we should go deeper into our own traditions rather than just acquiring the surfaces of others.

Shunryu Suzuki

When you try to attain something, your mind starts to wander about somewhere else. When you do not try to attain anything, you have your own body and mind right here. In Buddhism it is a heretical view to expect something outside this world. We do not seek for something besides ourselves.

Pema Chodron

Buddhism itself is all about empowering yourself, not about getting what you want.

Pema Chodron

We can gradually drop our ideals of who we think we ought to be, or who we think we want to be, or who we think other people think we want to be or ought to be.

Pema Chodron

Come back to square one, just the minimum bare bones. Relaxing with the present moment, relaxing with hopelessness, relaxing with death, not resisting the fact that things end, that things pass, that things have no lasting substance, that everything is changing all the time-that is the basic message.

Pankaj Mishra

Buddhism resonated very powerfully with a lot of my preoccupations.

Pankaj Mishra

I don't feel any great need to subscribe to a certain notion of Buddhism that says "You have to do this" or "You have to do that." Buddhism does not prescribe rituals or prohibitions in the way many religions do.

Camille Paglia

The followers of Derrida are pathetic, snuffling in French pockets for bits of pieces of a deconstructive method already massively and coherently presented and with a mature sense of the sacred in Buddhism and Hinduism.