Yoga Quotes
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The quality of our breath expresses our inner feelings.
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I was really involved with other people's opinions of me, and it got heightened during my film career. I don't have any opinion, good or bad about it, it just was. It's not the way I feel now, and I think yoga has a lot to do with that.
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I start my day with a mind, body, soul practice - yoga, Pilates or meditation.
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Yoga is meant for the purification of body and its exploration as well as for the refinement of the mind.
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The ultimate goal of yoga is to always observe things accurately, and therefore never act in a way that will make us regret our actions later.
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Yoga is a means and an end.
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As each individual is electrically alive and dynamic, so yoga is a living, dynamic force in life. In order to savor its essence, one needs a religiously attentive dynamic practice done with awareness and absorption.
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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.
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I do yoga. I do tai chi. I do a lot to keep my body and my spirit together so I can work.
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Yoga really destresses me.
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I do an hour's yoga and go running every day. Then I see a picture of myself and I still look like a skinny, potbellied idiot - and I thought I had turned into this superhunk!
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Yoga releases the creative potential in life.
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As soon as a person starts thinking, 'I want to be a better person,' that is the start of Yoga.
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I'm dying to go to India... because the culture seems so vastly different from what I'm used to in the States. I would love to do some yoga there. And be amongst people who are so different than myself. There's so much you can learn from people who grew up in a different environment.
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In the West, it is the opposite, like you are using these practices [meditation and yoga ] to further your ego by being more productive, being more this, and getting more out of your work and earning more money. In the East, the whole idea is that you are dissolving your essence through these practices.
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It is while practicing yoga asanas that you learn the art of adjustment.
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My mala beads are very precious to me. A yoga teacher and friend named Leslie made them for me with love and intention. They are very grounding, and I love them.
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The meaning of our self is not to be found in its separateness from God and others, but in the ceaseless realization of yoga, of union; not on the side of the canvas where it is blank, but on the side where the picture is being painted.
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My job involves a lot of sitting on aeroplanes and a lot of walking in high heels! I find yoga helps with both.
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I think Dogen can be a very good introduction for people who want to meditate in whatever way, whether it's yoga, qigong, or Tibetan. It can help widen and deepen anyone's meditation experience.
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Anyone can practice. Young man can practice. Old man can practice. Very old man can practice. Man who is sick, he can practice. Man who doesn't have strength can practice. Except lazy people; lazy people can't practice Ashtanga yoga.
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You do not need to seek freedom in some distant land, for it exists within your own body, heart, mind, and soul.
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I hope I will be a calm mother; I do yoga and I meditate, and those should help.
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Emily Osment has 'osteo-old-woman-itis.' She can't lift weights or do physical activity but ride her bike and do yoga.
