Backbends are to be felt more than expressed. The other postures can be expressed and then felt. Like in meditation each person has to feel backbends.

The body is your temple. Keep it pure and clean for the soul to reside in.

Do not think of yourself as a small, compressed, suffering thing. Think of yourself as graceful and expanding, no matter how unlikely it may seem at the time.

Yoga is a light, which once lit, will never dim. The better your practice, the brighter the flame.

Hatha Yoga teaches us to use the body as the bow, asana as the arrow, and the soul the target.

Life without tapas, is like a heart without love.

The study of asana is not about mastering posture. It's about using posture to understand and transform yourself.

In backbends, one touches the body physically, mentally, intellectually, consciously and spiritually everywhere.

In an asana, the mind has to reach inside the body to find a quiet space until a point comes where perfect balance is felt.

Knowledge has a beginning but no end.

The primary aim of yoga is to restore the mind to simplicity, peace, and poise, to free it from confusion and distress.

No work is insignificant. All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.

Morality, for all the conditioning to which the human mind has been and is subjected, is always a personal choice in the last analysis.

The goal is not to pray and wait around for a miracle to happen, but to pray and then worker harder than ever with faith.

She wanted to savor him slowly like a lemon cream pie on a lazy summer day. One bite at a time.

I abandon myself to the fever of dreams, in search for new laws.

You cannot dig a hole in a different place by digging the same hole deeper

With all the trouble black people have, they try to forget on weekends. You've got to be good to make them laugh.

I've never, ever had people being aggressive to me in public or abusing me, and actually quite a lot of men do say to me, 'You're quite good' - though they can't bear to go, 'You're great.'

its hard to talk when you want to kill yourself

Now life has killed the dream I dreamed.