Famous Quotes & Sayings

Patanjali

Chanting is one of the most traditional and first Yoga practices. It helps to open the throat area and is a great way to learn some Sanskrit and the Yoga Sutra.

Patanjali

Yoga is the cessation of mind.

Patanjali

For those who have an intense urge for Spirit and wisdom, it sits near them, waiting.

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.

Danica McKellar

I exercise at home - light cardio and yoga.

Dani Shapiro

I was doing a lot of yoga and learning to meditate, and I found that extremely helpful, and still do and hopefully always will.

Dani Shapiro

When I started meditating, even doing yoga, I felt like it was hard to allow myself to develop any other kind of practice [outside of Judaism], like I was somehow being untrue to my heritage, and that was something I had to get over and was probably the greatest revelation to me.

Colin Farrell

You consciously look after yourself, whatever that may be to you, whether it's going out for a few drinks and a bit of dinner, or just hitting the couch and watching TV, or going to the gym or yoga class. Just being aware that there's a potential for you to be in it and respecting wherever you find yourself is good enough.

Colin Farrell

I don't go to the gym or practice yoga. And the closest thing I have to a nutritionist is the Carlsberg Beer Company. I just have the appetite of a pigeon.

J. Courtney Sullivan

Reading poetry gives me a sense of calm, well-being, and love for humanity - the same stuff more flexible women get from yoga.

Indra Devi

Yoga means union, in all its significances and dimensions.

Gelett Burgess

Our bodies are apt to be our autobiographies.

Jack Kornfield

No amount of meditation, yoga, diet, and reflection will make all of our problems go away, but we can transform our difficulties into our practice until little by little they guide us on our way.

Jack Kornfield

The things that matter most in our lives are not fantastic or grand. They are the moments when we touch one another.

Jack Kornfield

If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.

Ione Skye

I fell in love with doing yoga.

Ione Skye

Yoga is a life-saver.

Gwyneth Paltrow

I believe in holistic medicine, yoga, Pilates and so on. But I also believe in banana split sundaes once in a while.

Danny Pudi

Yoga helps me be a stronger runner. I can lose track of my form, and yoga reminds me how important it is.

Dan Brown

Vittoria slipped off her robe. 'You've never been to bed with a yoga master, have you?

Jennifer Beals

[On yoga] Once you've completed a wonderful class, you get a sense of the deepest, purest part of yourself. You feel like you are connected to everybody else in the world.

Jennifer Aniston

If yoga didn't exist, I'd invent it.

Jennifer Aniston

Oh gosh, I noticed dramatic changes in my body after I started doing yoga, but I also think you have to shake things up.

Jennifer Aniston

Yoga calms me down. It gives me energy and focus.

Jennifer Aniston

I love yoga in general. It's so important for me to incorporate it into my routine, it's important for my sanity!

Francesca Annis

I've always kept fit but I've been doing gym and yoga and will be throwing my stilettoes away for a while!

Jason Mraz

I love eating healthy and doing the yoga thing, because I think I'm going to live to a thousand doing so. And that's because I don't want to leave here so soon. I want to stick around as long as I can, but I know that's not going to be the case. We're all going.

Jason Mraz

Music is my way to shine back and express positive vibrations for a common healing. It's similar to farming, or surfing, or yoga. Before world peace, we have to have inner peace and music helps us get there.