Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Peter McWilliams

Meditation creates more time than it takes.

Peter McWilliams

Some people think that meditation takes time away from physical accomplishment. Taken to extremes, of course, that's true. Most people, however, find that meditation creates more time than it takes.

Paulo Coelho

If something happens once, it may never happen again. If it happens twice it most likely will keep happening.

Paulo Coelho

The River adapts itself to whatever route prove possible, but the river never forgets its one objective: the sea. So fragile at its source, it gradually gathers the strength of the other rivers in encounters. And, after a certain point, its power is absolute.

Paulo Coelho

Fear exists until the moment when the unavoidable happens, after that we must waste none of our energy on it.

Peter Max

I would say, the new hipness is #yoga.

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.

Paramahansa Yogananda

Learn to be calm and you will always be happy.

Paramahansa Yogananda

Smiling away your troubles requires a clear conscience that harbors no insincerity.

Paramahansa Yogananda

Never do anything that taints your mind. Wrong actions cause negative or evil mental vibrations that are reflected in your whole appearance and personality. Engage in those actions and thoughts that nurture the good qualities you want to have.

Paramahansa Yogananda

Thoughts are universally and not individually rooted; a truth cannot be created, but only perceived. The erroneous thoughts of man result from imperfections in his discernment. The goal of Yoga Science is to calm the mind, that without distortion it may mirror the Divine vision in the Universe.

Paramahansa Yogananda

He who is persistent will realize God. So try your best to make meditation a regular experience in your life.

Paramahansa Yogananda

Thinkers do not accept the inevitable; they turn their efforts toward changing it.

Paramahansa Yogananda

The more you meditate, the more helpful you can be to others, and the more deeply you will be in tune with God.

Paramahansa Yogananda

Have only love in your heart for others. The more you see the good in them, the more you will establish good in yourself.

Meher Baba

I only know one yoga: 'You Go.'

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.

John Friend

Yoga is about awakening. Yoga is about creating a life that brings more beauty and more love into the world.

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.

Joseph Pilates

You are only as young as your spine is flexible.

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.

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.

Liz Miller

Mood reflects the biology of the brain. How you feel is affected by the chemicals in the brain, and these are the same chemicals that form the basis of mood-altering drugs. You may use yoga, meditation, cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) or exercise to alter your mood, or revert to healthy eating, regular exercise and getting enough sleep.

M. F. K. Fisher

There is no chiropractic treatment, no Yoga exercise, no hour of meditation in a music-throbbing chapel, that will leave you emptier of bad thoughts than this homely ceremony of making bread.

M. F. K. Fisher

No yoga exercise, no meditation in a chapel filled with music will rid you of your blues better than the humble task of making your own bread.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

When we think of failure; failure will be ours. If we remain undecided nothing will ever change. All we need to do is want to achieve something great and then simply to do it. Never think of failure, for what we think, will come about.

Mahatma Gandhi

Detachment is not indifference. it is the prerequisite for effective involvement. Often what we think is best for others is distorted by our attachments to our opinions. We want others to be happy in the way we think they should be happy. It is only when we want nothing for ourselves that we are able to see clearly into others needs and understand how to serve them.

Mahatma Gandhi

Just as the body cannot exist without blood, so the soul needs the matchless and pure strength of faith.