Donna Farhi Quotes

#1. The process of breathing is the most accurate metaphor we have for the way that we personally approach life, how we live our lives, and how we react to the inevitable changes that life brings us.

Donna Farhi

#2. Life is not inherently meaningful. We make meaning happen through the attention and care we express through our actions.

Donna Farhi

#3. Breathing affects your respiratory, cardiovascular, neurological, gastrointestinal, muscular, and psychic systems, and also has a general affect on your sleep, memory, ability to concentrate, and your energy levels.

Donna Farhi

#4. I believe that cunning is not only morally wrong but also politically expedient, and have therefore always discountenanced its use even from the practical standpoint.

Mahatma Gandhi

#5. Nobody, in my lifetime, in either party, has reached out with a message of hope, growth and opportunity to minorities better than Jack Kemp.

Lawrence Kudlow

#6. Our breath, like our heartbeat, is the most reliable rhythm in our lives. When we become attuned to this constant rhythm, our breath can gradually teach us to come back to the original silence of the mind.

Donna Farhi

#7. Nature laughs at the difficulties of integration.

Pierre-Simon Laplace

#8. Yoga is a technology for arriving in this present moment. It is a means of waking up from our spiritual amnesia, so that we can remember all that we already know.

Donna Farhi

#9. Yoga does not remove us from the reality or responsibilities of everyday life but rather places our feet firmly and resolutely in the practical ground of experience. We don't transcend our lives; we return to the life we left behind in the hopes of something better.

Donna Farhi

#10. Am I becoming the kind of person I would like to have as a friend?

Donna Farhi

#11. In truth, it matters less what we do in practice than how we do it and why we do it. The same posture, the same sequence, the same meditation with a different intention takes on an entirely new meaning and will have entirely different outcomes.

Donna Farhi

#12. As photographers, we live through things so swiftly. All our experience and training is focused toward snatching off the highlights ... That all significant perfect moment, so essential to capture, is often highly perishable. There may be little opportunity to probe deeper.

Margaret Bourke-White

#13. Practicing yoga does not eliminate life's challenges, and neither does it provide us with a convenient trap-door to escape from life's distractions. Instead, Yoga gives us the skills to meet life head-on with dignity and poise.

Donna Farhi

#14. Smile. Be open and welcoming.

Ephraim Buchwald

#15. Slowing down is the precursor to Yoga practice because this simple act allows us to consider our thoughts, feelings and actions more carefully in the light of our desire to live peacefully.

Donna Farhi

#16. When we bring our mind into our body, the body becomes mindful, and the mind becomes embodied

Donna Farhi

#17. It is not the trials in your life that develop or destroy you, but rather your response to those hardships.

Charles Stanley

#18. The world doesn't really need more people who can bend their bodies into amazing positions. What it needs are kinder, more compassionate, generous people.

Donna Farhi

#19. The asanas are useful maps to explore yourself, but they are not the territory.

Donna Farhi

#20. In truth it matters less what we do ... than how we do it and why.

Donna Farhi

#21. Every part has its relief when I'm done with it.

Kelli O'Hara

#22. Through daily yoga practice we can become present to our own fundamental goodness and the goodness of others

Donna Farhi

#23. Shaucha, or living purely, involves maintaining a cleanliness in body, mind, and environment so that we can experience ourselves at a higher resolution.

Donna Farhi

#24. God is not going to negotiate His holiness ... in order to accommodate us.

R.C. Sproul

#25. There is no waiting and no delayed gratification because yoga is both the means and the result, and the seed of all that is possible is present at the very beginning. This experience of stillness is possible in the first ten minutes of your first yoga class. It is possible in this very breath.

Donna Farhi

#26. Step-parenting and being a step-sibling presents a lot of exciting opportunities. When families break up and re-form, there may be less order, less certainty, and a bit more trauma involved, but kids can end up having half-a-dozen parent figures.

Morris Gleitzman

#27. When we feel connected to the vastness of life and are confident of life's abundance, we are naturally generous and able to practice the third yama, non-stealing (asteya).

Donna Farhi

#28. In that moment Ged understood the singing of the bird, and the language of the water falling in the basin of the fountain, and the shape of the clouds, and the beginning and end of the wind that stirred the leaves; it seemed to him that he himself was a word spoken by the sunlight.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#29. Without intention, all these postures, these breathing practices, meditations, and the like can become little more than ineffectual gestures. When animated by intention, however, the simplest movement, the briefest meditation, and the contents of one breath cycle are made potent.

Donna Farhi

#30. If you don't co-operate you're gonna suffer from fistophobia.

Robert De Niro