Yoga Quotes - Page 31

• Anyone can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend's success.

  Oscar Wilde

  Love, Inspirational, Friendship

  Oscar Wilde, Isobel Murray (1999). “The Soul of Man, and Prison Writings”, p.33, Oxford University Press, USA

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• The future depends on what we do in the present.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Success, Peace

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• If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Change, Success

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• Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.

  Norman Ralph Augustine

  Inspirational, Life, Success

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• Health and cheerfulness naturally beget each other.

  Joseph Addison

  Inspirational, Get Well, Health

  The Spectator Vol. V, No. 387 (1712)

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• Snowflakes, leaves, humans, plants, raindrops, stars, molecules, microscopic entities all come in communities. The singular cannot in reality exist.

  Paula Gunn Allen

  Inspirational, Life, Peace

  Paula Gunn Allen (1991). “Grandmothers of the Light: A Medicine Woman's Sourcebook”, Beacon Press (MA)

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  Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

  Laozi

  Life, Change, Spiritual

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• There is always room for change, but you have to be open to that change.

  Kathryn Budig

  Rooms

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• Through the practices of yoga, we discover that concern for the happiness and well being of others, including animals, must be an essential part of our own quest for happiness and well being. The fork can be a powerful weapon of mass destruction or a tool to create peace on Earth.

  Sharon Gannon

  Success, Powerful, Animal

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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.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Success, Self, Realization

  Rabindranath Tagore, Fakrul Alam, Radha Chakravarty (2011). “The Essential Tagore”, p.199, Harvard University Press

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• A lot of exercise is mindless; you can have music or the radio on and not be aware. But if you're aware in anything you do - and it doesn't have to be yoga - it changes you. Being present changes you.

  Mariel Hemingway

  Success, Exercise, Radio

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• When it comes right down to it, all you have is your self. Your Self is a sun with a thousand rays.

  Pablo Picasso

  Self, Rays, Sun

  Wilhelm Boeck, Jaime Sabartés, Pablo Picasso (1961). “Picasso”, New York : H.N. Abrams

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• Just as the body cannot exist without blood, so the soul needs the matchless and pure strength of faith.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Faith, Blood, Soul

  Mahatma Gandhi (2011). “The Way to God: Selected Writings from Mahatma Gandhi”, North Atlantic Books

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• If the body be feeble, the mind will not be strong.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Strong, Mind, Body

  Letter to Thomas M. Randolph Jr, 27 August (1786)

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• They tease me now, telling me it was only a dream. But does it matter whether it was a dream or reality, if the dream made known to me the truth?

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Dream, Reality, Doe

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2016). “Short Stories”, p.190, Xist Publishing

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• Mental activity in the daytime creates a latent form of habitual thought which again transforms itself at night into various delusory visions sensed by the semi-consciousness. This is called the deceptive and magic-like Bardo of Dream.

  Milarepa

  Dream, Night, Magic

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• Whatever is worth doing is worth doing well.

  Lewis Carroll

  Inspirational, Wells

  Lewis Carroll (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lewis Carroll (Illustrated)”, p.404, Delphi Classics

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

  Abraham Lincoln

  Procrastination, Done, Tomorrow

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “Speeches and Letters of Abraham Lincoln(1832-1865) (EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition)”, p.49, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• When you demand nothing of the world, nor of God, when you want nothing, seek nothing, expect nothing, then the supreme state will come to you uninvited and unexpected.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Spiritual, World, Demand

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• If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?

  Dogen

  Spiritual, Art, Truth

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• Only when your consciousness is totally focused on the moment you are in can you receive whatever gift, lesson, or delight that moment has to offer.

  Barbara De Angelis

  Inspirational, Focus And Concentration, Delight

  FaceBook post by Dr. Barbara De Angelis from May 20, 2014

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• Smiling away your troubles requires a clear conscience that harbors no insincerity.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Smile, Honor, Trouble

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• Thinkers do not accept the inevitable; they turn their efforts toward changing it.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Apology, Effort, Accepting

  Yogananda (Paramahansa) (1969). “Self-realization Magazine”

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• The soul loves to meditate, for in contact with the Spirit lies its greatest joy. If, then you experience mental resistance during meditation, remember that reluctance to meditate comes from the ego; it doesn't belong to the soul.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Lying, Meditation, Joy

  Paramahansa Yogananda (1990). “The Essence of Self-Realization: The Wisdom of Paramhansa Yogananda”, Crystal Clarity Pubs

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• Faithfulness in the performance of small duties gives us strength to adhere to difficult determinations that life will someday force us to make.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Life, Determination, Giving

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