Yoga Quotes

You cannot do yoga. Yoga is your natural state. What you can do are yoga exercises, which may reveal to you where you are resisting your natural state. ~Sharon Gannon

Yoga is possible for anybody who really wants it. Yoga is universal…. But don’t approach yoga with a business mind looking for worldly gain. ~Sri Krishna Pattabhi Jois

The beauty is that people often come here for the stretch, and leave with a lot more. ~Liza Ciano, co-owner and co-director of Yoga Vermont, yogavermont.com

Yoga, an ancient but perfect science, deals with the evolution of humanity. This evolution includes all aspects of one’s being, from bodily health to self-realization. Yoga means union – the union of body with consciousness and consciousness with the soul. Yoga cultivates the ways of maintaining a balanced attitude in day-to-day life and endows skill in the performance of one’s actions. ~B.K.S. Iyengar, Astadala Yogamala

Tree pose grows confidence. ~Terri Guillemets

Inhale, and God approaches you. Hold the inhalation, and God remains with you. Exhale, and you approach God. Hold the exhalation, and surrender to God. ~Krishnamacharya

For those wounded by civilization, yoga is the most healing salve. ~Terri Guillemets

Chair pose is a defiance of spirit, showing how high you can reach even when you’re forced down. ~Terri Guillemets

Basketball is an endurance sport, and you have to learn to control your breath; that’s the essence of yoga, too. So, I consciously began using yoga techniques in my practice and playing. I think yoga helped reduce the number and severity of injuries I suffered. As preventative medicine, it’s unequaled. ~Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Before you’ve practiced, the theory is useless. After you’ve practiced, the theory is obvious. ~David Williams, an Ashtanga yoga teacher in Maui, Hawaii, quoted from yoga.com

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Fools and Wise

Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.
Cato the Elder

Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.
Charles Caleb Colton

The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world.
Charles Caleb Colton

A fool despises good counsel, but a wise man takes it to heart.
Confucius

Who are a little wise the best fools be.
John Donne

It takes a wise man to handle a lie, a fool had better remain honest.
Norman Douglas

Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.
John Dryden

It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.
Epictetus

The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.
Benjamin Franklin

Wise men don’t need advice. Fools won’t take it.
Benjamin Franklin

The fool wanders, a wise man travels.
Thomas Fuller

Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom.
Elizabeth Gaskell

A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
Balthasar Gracian

Controversy equalizes fools and wise men — and the fools know it.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Even a fool may be wise after the event.
Homer

Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men.
Thomas Huxley

Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots.
Karl Kraus

One fool can ask more questions in a minute than twelve wise men can answer in an hour.
Nikolai Lenin

Wise people are foolish if they cannot adapt to foolish people.
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
J. Robert Oppenheimer

Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools talk because they have to say something.
Plato
Learning makes the wise wiser and the fool more foolish.
John Ray

The fool thinks himself to be wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.
William Shakespeare

A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top.
Unknown

Only a fool knows everything. A wise man knows how little he knows.
Unknown

Fools give you reasons, wise men never try.
Oscar Hammerstein II

A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.
William Blake

Wise men learn by other men’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn

A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times.
John Dalberg Acton

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About Gossip.

In a small village, a young woman spreads an unkind rumor. Her victim goes to the village rabbi to get justice for her ruined reputation. The gossipmonger offers to make amends by taking back her words, demonstrating that she does not truly understand the harm she has caused. The rabbi invents a creative way to teach the heedless woman the destructive power of rumors and gossip.

“He tells her: ‘Take my feather pillow to the market square. Cut it open and let the feathers fly through the air. When this task is done, bring back the feathers, every one.’ Although she thinks the rabbi has gone mad, she follows his strange instructions. Of course, she cannot possibly retrieve all the feathers, and thus learns the intended lesson: ‘I suppose,’ she sighed as she lowered her head, ‘they are like the words I can’t take back from the rumor I spread.’

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