The body is your temple. Keep it pure and clean for the soul to reside in. (B.K.S Iyengar)
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. (The yoga sutras of Patanjali)
When the breath wanders the mind also is unsteady. But when the breath is calmed the mind too will be still, and the yogi achieves long life. Therefore, one should learn to control the breath. (Hatha Yoga Pradipika)
Yoga exists in the world because everything is linked (Desikashar)
Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself (Chief indian Seatle)
Knowing others is intelligence. Knowing yourself is true wisdom (Lao Tse)
When one experiences truth, the madness of finding fault with others disappears. (Goenka)
The mind is everything; what you think, you become. (Buddha)
Change is not something that we should fear. Rather, it is something that we should welcome. For without change, nothing in this world would ever grow or blossom, and no one in this world would ever move forward to become the person they’re meant to be. (anon.)
Whatever you can do, or dream you can do, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now. (Goethe)
To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are. (author unknown)
When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us. (Helen Keller)
The highest form of maturity is self inquiry. (Martin Luther King Jr.)
No one is wise by birth, for wisdom results from one own's efforts (Krishnamacharya)
What you think you create
What you feel you attract
What you imagine you become (Source unknown)
What lies before us and what lies behind us is nothing compared to what lies within us (Emerson)
Our deepest fears are like dragons guarding our deepest treasure. (Rainier Maria Rilke)
Divine Love always has met and always will meet every human need. (Mary Baker Eddy)
Seeing into darkness is clarity. Knowing how to yield is strength. (Lao Tse)
Yesterday is history, tomorrow is mystery, today is a gift, that's why they call it present...(Source unknown)
Praise and blame, gain and loss, pleasure and sorrow come and go like the wind. To be happy, rest like a giant tree, in the midst of them all. (The Buddha)
In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer. (Albert Camus)
Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play is your own will. (Jawaharlal Nehru)
Better than the one who knows what is right is the one who loves what is right. (Confucius)
Life isn’t measured by the number of breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breath away. (author unknown)
Achieving goals by themselves will never make us happy in the long term; it's who we become, as we overcome the obstacles necessary to achieve our goals, that can give us the deepest and most long-lasting sense of fulfilment. (Anthony Robbin)
The real act of discovery is not in finding new lands, but in seeing with new eyes. (Marcel Proust)
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