Yoga Quotes

• A lot of people have questioned how yoga and their own spiritual beliefs can come together. Yoga actually pre-dates religion.

  

  Christy Turlington
  • People
  • Together
  • Spiritual

• One of my favorite workouts to do with my girlfriends is yoga. We are equally impatient with our yoga. We are those people who are sweating in the back, and we'll be in downward dog giggling and looking at each other. And I know what we're all thinking: What are we going to order for dinner afterward?

  

  Summer Sanders
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Dog

• Innately within us, resides the Spirit which wants to enlighten you, to give the peace, the bliss and the joy of our being.

  

  Nirmala Srivastava
  • Love
  • Wisdom
  • Yoga

• Become slower in your journey through life. Practice yoga and meditation if you suffer from 'hurry sickness.' Become more introspective by visiting quiet places such as churches, museums, mountains and lakes. Give yourself permission to read at least one novel a month for pleasure.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Life
  • Practice
  • Journey

• The body is the vehicle, consciousness the driver. Yoga is the path, and the chakras are the map.

  

  Anodea Judith
  • Body
  • Yoga
  • Consciousness

• The things I've really loved doing over the years most consistently are running and yoga.

  

  Jennifer Connelly
  • Running
  • Yoga

• Anybody can breathe. Therefore anybody can practice yoga.

  

  Tirumalai Krishnamacharya Venkata Desikachar
  • Practice
  • Yoga
  • Breathe

• To keep my back from getting stiff, I have a strict regime every morning of stretching and do yoga once a week and Pilates. 'Strictly Come Dancing' in 2008 was great for my fitness.

  

  Cherie Lunghi
  • Great
  • Morning
  • Fitness

• I've been doing yoga since 1980 or '81, and I've kind of developed my own routine. It's challenging and thorough, but I'm not holy about it. Sometimes I'll watch a tape of Jon Stewart's show while exercising.

  

  April Gornik
  • Yoga

• Where older religions promised heaven, the church of yoga promises quicker, more practical, earthly gratification, in the form of better heart rates and well-toned arms.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Heart
  • Church
  • Heaven

• Yoga has reinforced and grounded my own spiritual beliefs.

  

  Christy Turlington
  • Spiritual
  • Yoga

• It took me whole decades to appreciate the depth and true value of yoga. Sacred texts supported my discoveries, but it was not they that signposted the way. What I learned through yoga, I found out through yoga.

  

  Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
  • True
  • Value
  • Yoga

• If you learn how to make fun of yourself, your ego will go down.

  

  Nirmala Srivastava
  • Love
  • Fun
  • Wisdom

• I take yoga classes, do a mile run, and of course take part in some kind of water sport.

  

  Karen Civil
  • Water
  • Yoga

• Yoga is just good for you.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Good
  • You
  • Yoga

• There cannot be a new religion. Religion is a continuous living process within us which is our sustenance. It's like a ladder on which we climb, leaving one by one, step by step - but not leaving the ladder. All others are required.

  

  Nirmala Srivastava
  • Love
  • Wisdom
  • Meditation

• All of us have a dormant spark of divinity in us which has to be fanned into flame by yoga.

  

  Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
  • Yoga
  • Flames
  • Divinity

• I will say a lot of dancers do such beautiful things for their body and then they smoke a cigarette. I've never been a smoker, but I realized after taking yoga . . . in ballet you're not encouraged to do a lot of breathing. I think in a weird way, a lot of dancers find relief in actually breathing.

  

  Elizabeth Berkley
  • Beautiful
  • Weird
  • Ballet

• I love a mix of kickboxing, gym, yoga, Pilates, horse riding, and dancing. I also do skinny rappelling, which is a quick cardio workout with music and lighting, so it's fun.

  

  Amy Jackson
  • Music
  • Fun
  • Horse

• Persistent practice alone is the key to yoga. As you take pains to learn, continue with devotion what you have learn.

  

  Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
  • Alone
  • Pain
  • Practice

• Yoga aims for complete awareness in everything you do.

  

  Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
  • Yoga

• Practicing yoga is Satanic, it leads to evil just like reading Harry Potter.

  

  Gabriele Amorth
  • Reading
  • Evil
  • Satanic

• Meditate?” I took my head out from under the pillow, shook dark hair back from my face, and rolled over on my side to look at him. “Excuse me, but the closest I ever got to having a spiritual awakening was dating a yoga instructor. Once.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Dark
  • Hair
  • Spiritual

• People talk of peace, "We should have peace" - how can you have peace? It's not possible, is an impossible situation. You see we think by thinking, by organizing, by manipulating, we'll have peace. You cannot. You cannot have peace that way. How will you have peace? When the peace is established on your attention. When your attention is peaceful, when we are absolutely without any thoughts, then the peace resides.

  

  Nirmala Srivastava
  • Love
  • Wisdom
  • Yoga

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