The pose begins when you want to leave it.

Your mind is your instrument. Learn to be its master and not its slave.

When you own your breath, nobody can steal your peace.

Yoga is the journey of the self, through the self, to the self.

“You will never influence the world by trying to be like it.”

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

“Yoga allows you to rediscover a sense of wholeness in your life, where you do not feel like you are constantly trying to fit broken pieces together.”

“Yoga allows you to find a new kind of freedom that you may not have known even existed.”

"I will protect your freedom, Malala. Carry on with your dreams."

"When someone takes away your pens you realize quite how important education is."

"With guns you can kill terrorists, with education you can kill terrorism."

"Had I known you, I would have possessed you, and had you known me, you would have possessed me. But then you and I would not be."

"No one has arrived. Leave me there as you would leave a myth with any person who sees you until he cries and rushes into himself, afraid of happiness."

"And you became like the coffee, In the deliciousness, and the bitterness and the addiction."

"She does not love you. Your metaphors thrill her you are her poet. But that's all there's to it."

"My love, I fear the silence of your hands."

"The days have taught you not to trust happiness because it hurts when it deceives."

Dear Iranian nation, your children have placed the first indigenous satellite into orbit.

I appeal for cessation of hostilities, not because you are too exhausted to fight, but because war is bad in essence. You want to kill Nazism. You will never kill it by its indifferent adoption.

You can't lead a true life without suffering

If you want something really important to be done you must not merely satisfy the reason, you must move the heart also.

Do not crave to know the views of others, nor base your intent thereon. To think independently for yourself is a sign of fearlessness.

All your scholarship would be in vain if at the same time you do not build your character and attain mastery over your thoughts and your actions.

Recall the face of the poorest and weakest man you have seen, and ask yourself if this step you contemplate is going to be any use to him.