Famous Quotes & Sayings

Adam Levine

There's nothing to win in yoga. You just do what you can do, one day to the next.

Adam Levine

Yoga carves you into a different person - and that is satisfying physically.

Abraham Lincoln

Leave nothing for to-morrow which can be done to-day.

Alan Cohen

If you want to find God, hang out in the space between your thoughts.

Alice Walker

Yoga means to bind back, unite. To bring the body and the soul together. For this reason the practice of yoga is a holy endeavor and the teaching of it to our people a very high calling.

Annie Besant

Yoga is a science, and not a vague dreamy drifting or imagining. It is an applied science, a systematized collection of laws applied to bring about a definite end. It takes up the laws of psychology, applicable to the unfolding of the whole consciousness of man on every plane, in every world, and applies those rationally in a particular case. This rational application of the laws of unfolding consciousness acts exactly on the same principles that you see applied around you every day in other departments of science.

Annie Besant

The Self in you is the same as the Self Universal. Whatever powers are manifested throughout the world, those powers exist in germ, in latency, in you.... If you realize the unity of the Self amid the diversities of the Not-Self, then Yoga Will not seem an impossible thing to you.

Annie Besant

The highest Hindu intellectual training was based on the practice of yoga, and produced, as its fruit, those marvellous philosophical systems, the six Darshanas and the Brahma Sutras, which are still the delight of scholars and the inspiration of occultists and mystics.

Annie Besant

Yoga is a science, and not a vague dreamy drifting or imagining.

Donna Karan

I spent two weeks at the Sadhguru's [Jaggi Vasudev]. It was a wonderful experience. It was very different from what I normally do - earlier I used to do Ashtanga [yoga] all the time.

Donna Karan

I've been meditating as part of my yoga practice for so long, I can't remember when I started.

Donna Karan

I practice yoga and take a steam-filled bath or shower. Then I sit quietly and review and prioritize my to-do list.

Donna Karan

I start my day with a mind, body, soul practice - yoga, Pilates or meditation.

Donna Karan

It used to be only yoga, but now I do Pilates as well; I feel like I need the balance.

Donna Karan

You know the bodysuit that I built my line on? . . .That was about me being able to go directly from work to yoga class. It just wasn't as accepted to talk about then.

Donna Karan

My bodysuit is how I start everyday. I wear a bodysuit everyday of my life. It's how I start my yoga practice. It's underneath it all. For me, what goes under the clothes is as important as what goes on top of the clothes. It's a layering aspect, so it's inside.

Donna Karan

With all the yoga and meditation that I do, when the chaos happens it happens. But I'm not as affected as a lot of people - I don't react as much. I just let things drip off my back a little bit.

Claudia Schiffer

I have always worked out, and I've gone through different phases of yoga, but the combination of Pilates three days a week with yoga is incredible.

Dalai Lama

Sleep is the best meditation.

Dalai Lama

If you don't love yourself, you cannot love others. You will not be able to love others. If you have no compassion for yourself then you are not able of developing compassion for others.

Dolph Lundgren

I do a little bit of yoga-style meditation. Relaxing and breathing even just one minute a day makes a big difference.

Andie MacDowell

I always think I look better after a yoga class. It's the same as a massage. We look so amazing after a massage because we're relaxed.

Andie MacDowell

It's helped my outlook, how I interact with people. It's made me more conscious. It's helped me be able to focus, make better decisions, think on my feet. I don't know what I'd do without it. It's my sanctuary.

Andrew Weil

Millions of Americans today are taking dietary supplements, practicing yoga and integrating other natural therapies into their lives. These are all preventive measures that will keep them out of the doctor's office and drive down the costs of treating serious problems like heart disease and diabetes.

Andrew Weil

Many exercise forms - aerobic, yoga, weights, walking and more - have been shown to benefit mood.

Christy Turlington

Yoga is not a religion to me.

Christy Turlington

I started practicing Yoga at about 18. I had a friend who was doing it and was incredibly disciplined and meditated all the time.

Christy Turlington

I really wanted to share with people the day-to-day joys that yoga can bring into one's life-not just the physical aspects.

Christy Turlington

Yoga has brought me to the part of religion I really like - the positive sides of religion, the parts we all share, rather than the things that create separation.

Christy Turlington

Yoga is about compassion and generosity towards others. It means being mindful of the world around us.

Christy Turlington

Yoga gave me the ability to calm down.

Christy Turlington

Love is connection with others. Union with another human being or living thing. That's also Yoga.

Christy Turlington

Yoga is an integral part of my daily routine. That definitely helps me approach all aspects of my life from a place of mindfulness and clarity, through the meditation that usually accompanies this practice.