posted September 18, 2005 05:19 PM         

Anyone who practices can obtain success in yoga but not one who is lazy.  Constant practice alone is the secret of success. (Hatha Yoga Pradipika)

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)

Do your practice and all is coming (Sri K Patthabi Jois)

Before you've practiced, the theory is useless.  After you've practiced, the theory is obvious.  (David Williams,  Ashtanga teacher)

This calm steadiness of the senses is called yoga. Then one should become watchful, becomes yoga comes and go. (Katha Upanishad)

Other inspirational quotes

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)

To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are. (author unknown)

The mind is everything; what you think, you become. (Buddha)

You must be the change that you wish to see in the world (Ghandi) 

They must change often, who would be constant in happiness (Confucius)

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.)

Peace will not come out of a clash of arms but out of justice lived and done by unarmed nations in the face of odds (Mahatma Ghandi)

Whatever you can do, or dream you can do, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now. (Goethe)

Now that the Apocalypse has begun, all Holy Warriors are impelled by their own Dharma (personal power, impeccability, conscience) to engage their energies at a collective level. In order to be impeccable, it is no longer enough to simply take care of one's own enlightenment: a warrior must assume responsibility for the entire race.
(Jason Wynd)

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)

Food brings benefit for some hours, clothes for some months but wisdom lasts as long as the mind itself.  It is the fondation of a better society. (anonymous Tibetan source)

Love is patient and kind. It is not jealous nor conceited nor proud; love is not ill-mannered, it does not seek its own advantage and is not irritable. Love does not keep a record of wrong, is not happy with evil, but rejoice in the truth. Love is always ready to excuse, to trust, to hope and to endure. (St Paul)

Man can learn nothing except by going from the known to the unknown. (Claude Bernard)

Give all you have, all you are: nothing more is demanded of you, but also nothing less. (The Mother)

What lies before us and what lies behind us is nothing compared to what lies within us (Emerson)

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. 
We ask ourselves, "Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous?"  
Actually, who are you not to be?  You are a child of God; your playing small doesn't serve the world.
(Nelson Mandella)

Who sees all being in his own self, and his own self in all beings, loses all fear (Isa Upanishad)

Our deepest fears are like dragons guarding our deepest treasure. (Rainier Maria Rilke)

If not now, when?    (The Talmud)

Expect nothing and the little you get will feel like millions (Kumar Dindial)

Perseverance furthers (The I-Ching or Chinese book of changes)

Strong men know not despair Arjuna, for this wins them neither hearven nor earth (The Bagavad Gita)

Nothing really worth having comes quickly and easily;
If it did, I doubt that we would ever grow. (Eknath Easwaran)

There are ways to learn what's inside you. We have all cried for ourselves a little, that's natural, but don't let it go on for too long. That's a child's way. (Herold Small War, Yuwipi man)

Divine Love always has met and always will meet every human need. (Mary Baker Eddy)

One doesn’t become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious. The latter procedure, however, is disagreeable, and therefore not popular. (Carl Gustav Jung)

Seeing into darkness is clarity
Knowing how to yield is strength. (Lao Tse)

Love is the extension of one self for another (source unknown)

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)

Eleanor Roosevelt wrote:
Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart
To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart
If someone betrays you once, it is his fault; if he betrays you twice, it is your fault.
Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people.
Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourself.

The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift. (Albert Einstein)

In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer. (Albert Camus)

Blow and you can extinguish a fire. Blow and you can make a fire. (Zen koan)

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)

Keep your hands open, and all the sands of the desert can pass through them. Close them and all you can feel is a bit of grit. (Taisen Deshimaru)

Nowhere has the creator designed any gem other than women. For, this gem gives delight to men, when it is heard of, seen, touched or even remembered; for its sake are done meritorious deeds, and wealth amassed; and from that alone do men derive worldly pleasures and offspring. Such women are indeed the Goddesses of fortune living in mortal abodes. Hence they ought to be honoured always with respect and wealth. Vaharamida, a poet and astrologer from 2000 years ago

Time spent in adversity will bring out the best, from the best and the worst, from the worst (Micheal Levy)

It is true that there is light in the end of every tunnel.
But there need not be any light in the end if you blindly believe that you are in the tunnel

Better than the one who knows what is right is the one who loves what is right. (Confucius)

In your actions and in your conversation do no idle thing. Speak not idle talk neither gossip...and do not give way to evil behaviour. (Five Nations )

Life isn’t measured by the number of breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breath away. (author unknown)

Consort only with the good,
come together with the good.
To learn the teaching of the good
gives wisdom like nothing else can.
(Samyutta Nikaya I, 17 )

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)

God dwells in the heart of all being, Arjuna, thy God dwells in thy heart. And his power of wonder moves all things - puppets in a play of shadows - whirling them onwards on the stream of times. (The Bhagavad Gita)