"There are no riches above a sound body." - Ecclesiastes 30:16

"We are responsible for what we are; and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves." - Swami Vivekananda

"Hatha Yoga helps us observe and learn about our bodies and minds as they are, without judgment." - Gretchen Rose Newmark

"You can't push a wave onto the shore any faster than the ocean brings it in."- Susan Strasberg

"Life is not inherently meaningful. We make meaning happen through the attention and care we express through our actions." - Donna Farhi

"Yoga is not about self-improvement, it's about self-acceptance." - Gurmukh

"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are." - Theodore Roosevelt

"I find that so many people are doing this in their yoga practice and probably in every aspect of their lives - they're always trying to do their life right." - Rodney Yee

"The most positive action we can perform to contribute to the momentous task of bringing our planet back into balance is to start changing ourselves."
- Swami Vishnu-Devananda

"What the mind has forgotten, the body remembers long after." - Lilias Folan

"When the asana is correct there is a lightness, a freedom. Freedom comes when every part of the body is active. Let us be free in whatever posture we are doing. Let us be full in whatever we do." - B.K.S. Iyengar

References: The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, Allistor Shearer; Yoga Wisdom, Cassandra Powers; Yoga The Iyengar Way, Silva, Mira and Shyam Mehta; Relax and Renew, Judith Lasater, Ph.D., P.T.