Saidman Quotes

#1. Teaching yoga is the only thing I can do. I can't imagine not doing it. I love it because I believe in it.

Colleen Saidman

#2. Vulnerability is a wonderful tool for awakening and for learning and for growing and for connecting.

Colleen Saidman

#3. Sometimes, almost getting what you want is worse than never coming close.

Jennifer R. Hubbard

#4. Let's hold hands and brave this beautiful, crazy life together with a sweet smile and a calm breath.

Colleen Saidman

#5. Now, when ordinary people attempt to find happiness, I am not sure whether the happiness is really happiness or not. I study what ordinary people do to find happiness, what they struggle for, rushing about apparently unable to stop.

Zhuangzi

#6. The system is broken. The doctors and the nurses can't do everything. The patients need human attention; the patients themselves need to be addressed, rather than just their disease.

Colleen Saidman

#7. I do what I do because there's nothing else I can do.

Colleen Saidman

#8. I can honestly say, I have the love of my life, and we have the most amazing children.

Colleen Saidman

#9. Well, it's still another two-day competition, so it's really important to show that you're ready. Every meet is really important right now. You've got to keep showing you can hit.

Carly Patterson

#10. I feel vulnerable every single time I step into a classroom. I feel completely exposed.

Colleen Saidman

#11. Seeing what was needed in the hospital firsthand - someone needs to come in and just be with patients, without trying to take their blood or change the bedpan, and to give them human-to-human touch.

Colleen Saidman

#12. Yoga is more a state than a methodology. A state where there is nothing missing. You don't feel like you have to grab this or grab that in order to be complete or full. From wringing out the body and the mind, from sitting in meditation, from studying scripture, from selfless service.

Colleen Saidman

#13. Allow beauty and sadness to touch you. This is love, not fear.

Colleen Saidman

#14. I love lyrics. They help me to figure things out.

Colleen Saidman

#15. I flinch. "Don't feel sorry for me, okay? Not ever. It makes my skin crawl.

E. Lockhart

#16. We cannot receive the mercy and forgiveness of God unless we repent, and we cannot claim to have repented of our sins if we are unmerciful towards the sins of others

John R.W. Stott