As a Yoga Therapist, focus on increasing people's quality of life not on curing diseases.

The success of Yoga does not lie in the ability to perform postures but in how it positively changes the way we live our life and our relationships.

The success of Yoga must not be measured by how flexible your body becomes, but rather by how much it opens your heart.

Mastery of yoga is really measured by how it influences our day-to-day living, how it enhances our relationships, how it promotes clarity and peace of mind.

Anybody can breathe. Therefore anybody can practice yoga.

The quality of our breath expresses our inner feelings.

When we are attentive to our actions we are not prisoners to our habits.

In stages, the impossible becomes possible.

The recognition of confusion is itself a form of clarity.

Yoga serves the individual, and does so through inviting transformation rather than by giving information.

The ultimate goal of yoga is to always observe things accurately, and therefore never act in a way that will make us regret our actions later.

It occurs to me it is not so much the aim of the devil to lure me with evil as it is to preoccupy me with the meaningless.

No one who has ever brought up a child can doubt for a moment that love is literally the life-giving fluid of human existence.

[...] He tasted like snowflakes and wine, like winter and Will and London.

You have to fight for your dream, but you also have to feel fortunate for what you have.

One part brave, three parts fool!

In literature the ambition of the novice is to acquire the literary language; the struggle of the adept is to get rid of it.

It's absurd how aspirants to designer-label colleges become obsessed with perfection so they can get into one. I'm not convinced it's worth prostituting yourself for that.

loves are like empires: when the idea they are founded on crumbles, they, too, fade away.

In the beginning, sin is like a thread of a spider's web. But in the end, it becomes like the cable of a ship.