Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mahatma Gandhi

While everything around me is ever changing, ever dying, there is underlying that change a living power that is changeless, that holds all together, that creates, dissolves and recreates.... For I can see in the midst of death, life persists, in the midst of untruth, truth persists, in the midst of darkness light persists.

Frida Gustavsson

Im obsessed with vinyasa flow yoga and Pilates. And since I live in Sweden, and we have good seafood, I tend to cook a lot of fish, preferably with oven-roasted veggies and a cauliflower mash.

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.

Ellie Goulding

The smallest changes, like I stopped eating meat and I've been doing different kinds of exercise like Yoga and stuff like that, little changes have made me feel a bit more at peace I think.

Elizabeth Gilbert

Yoga is the effort to experience one's divinity personally and then to hold on to that experience forever.

Elizabeth Gilbert

The culture of Rome just doesn't match the culture of Yoga, not as far as I can see. In fact, I've decided that Rome and Yoga don't have anything in common at all. Except for the way they both kind of remind you of the word toga.

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?'

Raquel Welch

Weight-bearing exercises can help ward off osteoporosis and yoga helps ward off arthritis.

Rajneesh

One is the path of devotion, what in India is called BHAKTI yoga, the path of love and devotion - a Meera, a Chaitanya, dancing and singing, losing themselves completely in the act. When Meera is dancing there is only dance, there is no Meera; the dancer is completely merged into the dance. When Chaitanya is singing and dancing there is no Chaitanya; he has become one with the act.

Victoria Moran

Yoga will always be transformationa l, even when it stops being cool.

Russell Simmons

I read "The Yoga Sutras" every day.And also the "The Bhagavad Gita." Those two books sit by my bed.

Russell Simmons

I don't miss a day of yoga. I don't miss my meditation... They're way more important.

Russell Simmons

When the mind is totally still, there's only bliss. I got a piece of that reality from my first yoga class, from smiling and breathing in every difficult pose. I went, "Oh my God! I'm clear! I love this!"

Rumi

Speak a new language so that the world will be a new world.

Sting

Like music, yoga is a journey -- one that is long enough so you keep developing, and keep learning. I don't see an end to it.

Sting

Yoga has enriched my life...It is a great way to offset the downsides of touring by bringing much-needed peace and sanity into what can be a hectic life. Like music, yoga is a journey - one that is long enough so you keep developing, and keep learning. I don't see an end to it.

Sting

I think there's room for both private exploration and group work in Yoga.

Sting

I think the time is right for yoga, we really are living in a very complex time - a time of great turmoil and change. Yoga is a good antidote to all that. It is almost like music in a way; there's no end to it.

Vijender Singh

I do a lot of yoga and meditation. It calms my nerves and helps me channelise my energy.

Steve Ross

Without love, without humor, yoga is just a lot of hard work.

Susan Strasberg

I meditate, I do yoga and I have a lot of friends who are healers.....And if none of that works, I go by a chocolate bar and a bottle of cognac.

Susan Mitchell

Our greatest fear is that we will lose the love in our life... that we will be abandoned, left alone, bereaved, misunderstood, deprived, hated and rejected....but we can never be OUT OF LOVE. We are love and if our minds separate ourselves from who we really are it is a painful delusion. Ego personalities, including our own, might separate ourselves from love but love never dies because it is what we are made of.

Thomas Merton

Not all of us are called to be hermits, but all of us need enough silence and solitude in our lives to enable the deeper voice of our own self to be heard at least occasionally.

Shawn Johnson

Hot yoga is the best. When you're in [class], there are no cell phones, no talking, no distractions. You're taking a leave from reality for an hour or so.

Ramana Maharshi

The "I" thought is said to be the sum total of all thoughts. The source of the "I" thought has to be inquired into.

Ramana Maharshi

Realization is our true nature. It is nothing new to be gained. What is new cannot be eternal. Therefore there is no need to be doubting whether we would gain or lose the self.

Ramana Maharshi

Once the current of awareness of the self is set afoot, it becomes everlasting and continuous by intensification.

Ramana Maharshi

There is no mind to control if you realise the self. The mind having vanished, the self shines forth. In the realised man, the mind may be active or inactive, the self remains for him.

Ramana Maharshi

Mind is a wonderful force inherent in the Self.

Ramana Maharshi

The inquiry "who am I" turns the mind introvert and makes it calm.