Deep Meditation

Yoga is 99% practice and 1% theory. - Pattabhi Jois

Worry is a waste of the imagination. - Unknown

Adversity is the first path to truth. - Lord Byron

Adversity is the first path to truth. - Lord Byron

Love is a great wrecker of peace of mind. - Susan Cheever

Give your stress wings and let it fly away. - Gerri Guillemets

Stress cannot exist in the presence of a pie. - David Mamet

Prosperity makes friends; adversity tries them. - Publilius Syrus

If stress burned calories, I'd be a supermodel. - Unknown

I've never seen a monument erected to a pessimist. - Paul Harvey

Yoga exists in the world because everything is linked. - Desikashar

Worry is interest paid on trouble before it falls due. - William R Inge

Of all the things to worry about; the Wookie has no pants. - Mark Hamill

Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world. - Lily Tomlin

Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with. - Thomas Carlyle

You'll never find a better sparring partner than adversity. - Walt Schmidt

Yoga is the perfect opportunity to be curious about who you are. - Jason Crandell

Put your trust in the Lord and go ahead. Worry gets you no place. - Roy Acuff

When the situation is hopeless, there's nothing to worry about. - Edward Abbey

Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity. - Charles C. Colton

In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends. - J. Churton Collins

A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety. - Aesop

Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both. - Oscar Wilde

There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist - except an old optimist. - Mark Twain

A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one. - Kin Hubbard

Pessimists are not boring. Pessimists are right. Pessimists are superfluous. - Elias Canetti

Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends. - Plutarch

Comfort and prosperity have never enriched the world as much as adversity has. - Billy Graham

Don't worry about avoiding temptation. As you grow older, it will avoid you. - Winston Churchill

I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart. - Alice Walker

Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity. - Jean-Jacques Rousseau

My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists. - Jean Rostand

Worry doesn't empty tomorrow of its troubles... it empties today of its strength. - Mary Englelbreit

Man should not try to avoid stress any more than he would shun food, love, or exercise. - Hans Selye

A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it. - George Bernard Shaw

We worry about what a child will become tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today. - Stacia Tauscher

Most people can bear adversity. But if you wish to know what a man really is, give him power. - Robert G. Ingersoll

The yoga mat is a good place to turn when talk therapy and antidepressants aren't enough. - Amy Weintraub

In times of great stress or adversity, plow your anger and your energy into something positive. - Lee Iacocca

Don't be disquieted in time of adversity. Be firm with dignity and self-reliant with vigor. - Chiang Kai-shek

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

Take thought for the tomorrow, yes, careful thought and planning and preparation. But have no anxiety. - Dale Carnegie

The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. - Winston Churchill

Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant. - Horace

Then she thought bitterly that it would be much easier to resist chocolate if her life were less stressful. - J K Rowling

Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today's jobs with yesterday's tools. - Marshall McLuhan

Even in the midst of life's adversity, struggle or strife, love's enduring presence remains steadfast. - Eleesha

What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease. - Alexander Pope

150 people die every year from being hit by falling coconuts. Not to worry, drug makers are developing a vaccine. - Jim Carrey

It's a funny thing that when a man hasn't anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married. - Robert Frost

Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own. - Matthew 6:34

Transformation also means looking for ways to stop pushing yourself so hard professionally or inviting so much stress. - Gail Sheehy

I'm not just retiring from the company, I'm also retiring from my stress, my commute, my alarm clock, and my iron. - Hartman Jule

Adversity is the state in which man mostly easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then. - John Wooden

By embracing your mother wound as your yoga, you transform what has been a hindrance in your life into a teacher of the heart. - Phillip Moffitt

We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship. - C S Lewis

If I'm losing balance in a pose, I stretch higher and God reaches down to steady me. It works every time, and not just in yoga. - T. Guillemets

Keep your sense of humor. There's enough stress in the rest of your life to let bad shots ruin a game you're supposed to enjoy. - Amy Alcott

Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that we see ourselves as we really are. - Arthur Golden

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome. - Anne Bradstreet

An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight. The truly wise person is colorblind. - Albert Schweitzer

To the optimist, the glass is half-full. To the pessimist, the glass is half-empty. To the engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be. - Unknown

If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the loss of sleep. - Dale Carnegie

Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming. - John Wooden

To be a champion, you have to learn to handle stress and pressure. But if you've prepared mentally and physically, you don't have to worry. - Harvey Mackay