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  • He'd (Yogi Berra) fall in a sewer and come up with a gold watch. -- Casey Stengel
  • Although Christ, in my mind is an absolute Yogi, I think many Christian teachers today are misrepresenting Christ. -- George Harrison
  • Peter swept aside Yogi Tea and Harmony Herbal Blend, though he hesitated a second over the chamomile. .... But no. Violent death demanded Earl Grey. -- Louise Penny
  • The mental ability to concentrate is inherent to all; it is not extraordinary or mysterious. Meditation is not something that a Yogi has to teach you; you already have the ability to shut out thoughts. -- Sivananda
  • Once, when we were discussing a world peace project with my teacher, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, somebody asked him, Where is all the money going to come from? And he replied without hesitation, From wherever it is at the moment. -- Deepak Chopra
  • ..."And for God's sake, never get into the petty habit of measuring your self-worth against other people's net-worth. As Yogi Ramen preached: 'Every second you spend thinking about someone elses dreams you take time away from your own.'" -- Robin Sharma
  • Keep a cool head and a warm heart. A mantra that became a song, inspired by the wise words of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. If we all take the time to listen and love each other, this world would be a better place. -- Mike Love
  • The Yogi conquers the body by the practice of asanas, making the body a fit vehicle for the spirit. The Yogi knows that it is a necessary vehicle for the spirit, for a soul without a body is like a bird deprived of its power to fly. -- B.K.S. Iyengar
  • A lot of guys go, 'Hey, Yog, say a Yogi-ism.' I tell 'em, 'I don't know any.' They want me to make one up. I don't make 'em up. I don't even know when I say it. They're the truth. And it is the truth. I don't know. -- Yogi Berra
  • Yogis love to be alone. -- Dharma Mittra
  • A pure woman is better than a hundred yogis. Women are more open to love God. -- Neem Karoli Baba
  • The yogi will tell you that you feel and look as young as your spine is elastic. -- Richard Hittleman
  • God-realization is attained only by great effort on the part of the yogi and by divine grace. -- Paramahansa Yogananda
  • Falling out of a posture means you are human; getting back into the posture means you are a yogi. -- Bikram Choudhury
  • When the restlessness of the mind, intellect and self is stilled through the practice of Yoga, the yogi by the grace of the Spirit within himself finds fulfillment. -- B.K.S. Iyengar
  • The yogi cannot be afraid to die, because he has brought life to every cell of his body. We are afraid to die, because we are afraid we have not lived. The yogi has lived. -- B.K.S. Iyengar
  • Ive learned that everything happens for a reason, the yogi Krishnan told him. Every event has a why and all adversity teaches us a lesson... Never regret your past. Accept it as the teacher that it is. -- Robin Sharma
  • A yogi never forgets that health must begin with the body. . . .Physical health is not a commodity to be bargained for. Nor can it be swallowed in the form of drugs and pills. . . . It is something that we must build up. You have to create within yourself the experience of beauty, liberation, and infinity. This is health. -- B.K.S. Iyengar
  • Yoga is as old and traditional as civilization, yet it persists in modern society as a means to achieving essential vitality. But yoga demands that we develop not only strength in body but attention and awareness in mind.The yogi knows that the physical body is not only the temple for our soul but the means by which we embark on the inward journey toward the core. -- B.K.S. Iyengar
  • The pair of opposites do not effect a yogi - neither praise nor insult. -- Harbhajan Singh Yogi
  • The Yogi must always practice. -- Swami Vivekananda
  • Some of the stuff about Yogi energy is really fascinating. -- Kathy Acker
  • Assign Yogi Berra to Cape Canaveral; he could handle any missile. -- Marianne Moore
  • Drink decaffeinated herbal teaBedtime Tea" by Yogi Tea is especially tasty." -- Brett Blumenthal
  • Yogi seemed to be doing everything wrong, yet everything came out right. -- Mel Ott
  • Talking to Yogi Berra about baseball is like talking to Homer about the Gods. -- A. Bartlett Giamatti
  • Yogi Berra, Bill Lee, they were irreverent, poked fun at the stodgy owners and managers. -- W. P. Kinsella
  • Yogi Berra put it best, "If people don't want to come, we can't stop them." -- Jay Mohr
  • Actually, I never liked Dylan's kind of music before; I always thought he sounded just like Yogi Bear. -- Mick Ronson
  • Playing for Yogi is like playing for your father; playing for Billy is like playing for your father-in-law. -- Don Baylor
  • Autobiography of a Yogi is justifiably celebrated as one of the most entertaining and enlightening spiritual books ever written. -- Tom Butler-Bowdon
  • Yogi Bear changed my life in ways that I can't explain because it's not a full feature on me. -- T. J. Miller
  • Yogi Bear was a real moment in my life. Post-Yogi Bear: don't drink as much. Pre-Yogi Bear: like to drink much. -- T. J. Miller
  • Yogi Bear - there's everything before Yogi Bear and there's everything after Yogi Bear. Like a major car accident, or the birth of Christ. -- T. J. Miller
  • I'm a Yogi and a tea drinker, and having a gun is the last thing that one would expect of me as a human being. -- Brenda Strong
  • They say he's [Yogi Berra] funny. Well, he has a lovely wife and family, a beautiful home, money in the bank, and he plays golf with millionaires. What's funny about that -- Casey Stengel
  • They say Yogi Berra is funny. Well, he has a lovely wife and family, a beautiful home, money in the bank, and he plays golf with millionaires. What's funny about that? -- Casey Stengel
  • Don Baylor, New York Yankees DH, on Billy Martin and his predecessor Yogi Berra: Playing for Yogi is like playing for your father; playing for Billy is like playing for your father-in-law. -- Don Baylor
  • I feel, first of all, very privileged that these people think enough of me that they made me commissioner. And it's almost like, as Yogi Berra said, 'deja vu all over again.' -- Bobby Hull
  • People say Yogi (Berra) is a strange guy, and I've heard Yogi say some funny things. But he has a beautiful wife, he's rich, and he's famous. I don't see anything strange about that. -- Mickey Mantle
  • India brings out so many different feelings in me. I've been fascinated with India and Indian culture as long as I can remember - ever since the '60s with the Beatles and Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. -- Joe Perry
  • I keep stacks of Autobiography of a Yogi around the house, and I give it out constantly to people. When people need 'regrooving,' I say read this, because it cuts to the heart of every religion. -- George Harrison
  • Do you recall the story of the young Yogi in the Mahâbhârata who prided himself on his psychic powers by burning the bodies of a crow and crane by his intense will, produced by anger? -- Swami Vivekananda
  • Yogi's been an inspiration to me, not only because of his baseball skills, but of course for the enduring mark he left on the English language. Some in the press corps think he might even be my speechwriter. -- George H. W. Bush
  • In [Yogananda's] celebrated Autobiography of a Yogi, he offers a stunning account of the 'cosmic consciousness' reached on the upper levels of yogic practice, and numerous interesting perspectives on human nature from the yogic and Vedantic points of view. -- Robert S Ellwood
  • They ask me what the biggest thing I have going on right now is, and I usually say, "I think this interview?" And then they don't get that it's a joke. So then I say, Yogi Bear 3D. That's my default. -- T. J. Miller
  • A yogi is much more disciplined in his speech. Yogic tradition has it that speech must pass before three barriers prior to being uttered aloud. These barriers come in the form of three questions: Is it kind? Is it true? Is it necessary? (112-113) -- Prem Prakash
  • Yogi Bear' changed my life in ways that I can't explain because it's not a full feature on me. 'Yogi Bear' - there's everything before 'Yogi Bear,' and there's everything after 'Yogi Bear.' Like a major car accident, or the birth of Christ. -- T. J. Miller
  • My high-school coach Tony Reginelli was kind of famous for 'Reggie-isms,' kind of like 'Yogi-isms.' He always said if you want to be a good quarterback, when sprinting left you want to be amphibious and throw left-handed. I told him, 'You mean ambidextrous, coach?' -- Peyton Manning
  • If you mentioned Hanna-Barbera to people, they said, 'Oh yeah, Flintstone, Yogi, Scooby-Doo, Jetsons,' and that was pretty much it. We have characters with very high recognition factors and great films, but no organized plans for really making the most of them and increasing their value. -- Fred Seibert
  • It was in 1967, and I was on a spiritual pilgrimage to India to study with the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. That was before the Beatles saw him, by the way, when not too many people knew of him. Anyway, I visited the Taj and noticed its wonderful sound. -- Paul Horn
  • Surprise me! Yogi's reply when he was asked by his wife, Carmen, where he would like to be buried -- Yogi Berra
  • When asked what would he do if he found $1 million, Yogi responded, If the guy was poor, I'd give it back. -- Yogi Berra
  • Yogi saw three of his players in the locker room wearing Cone Head hats. Yogi said, Those guys make a pair. -- Yogi Berra
  • Yogi ordered a pizza. The waitress asked How many pieces do you want your pie cut? Yogi responded, Four. I don't think I could eat eight. -- Yogi Berra
  • If people don't want to come to the ballpark, how are you going to stop them? -Yogi Berra, The Yogi Book, to baseball commissioner Bud Selig about lagging baseball attendance Ninety percent of the game is half mental. -- Yogi Berra
  • I'm not a yogi, but I know the sun salutation. -- Marc Jacobs
  • When I see a non-yogi [benefit], that's when it really affects my life. -- Donna Karan
  • A yogi is one who leaves a place a little nicer than when they arrived. -- David F. Swensen
  • I am not a yogi yet, but I aspire to have more balance in my life. -- Baratunde Thurston
  • A yogi's brain extends from the bottom of the foot to the top of his head -- B.K.S. Iyengar
  • The yogi learns to forget the past and takes no thought for the morrow. He lives in the eternal present. -- B.K.S. Iyengar
  • Even in the world, the yogi who faithfully discharges his responsibilities, without personal motive or attachment, treads the sure path of enlightenment. -- Mahavatar Babaji
  • As the twelfth-century Tibetian yogi Milarepa said when he heard of his student Gampopa's peak experiences, 'They are neither good not bad. Keep meditation.' -- Pema Chodron
  • I am what we call a 'karma yogi' in Sanskrit. A karma yogi is somebody who believes in data. I collect a lot of data. -- N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • Be thou a true yogi. A yogi who understands that everything he's looking for is really inside himself. Learn to live more in the Self. -- Goswami Kriyananda
  • As the twelfth-century Tibetian yogi Milarepa said when he heard of his student Gampopa's peak experiences, 'They are neither good nor bad. Keep meditating.' -- Pema Chodron
  • As the twelfth-century Tibetian yogi Milarepa said when he heard of his student Gampopa's peak experiences, 'They are neither good not bad. Keep meditating.' -- Pema Chodron
  • A true yogi may remain dutifully in the world; there, he is like butter on water and not like the easily-diluted milk of unchurned and undisciplined humanity. -- Paramahansa Yogananda
  • What I believe in touches many aspects of religious and spiritual thought. Mainly I'm influenced and inspired by the eastern yogi's aspect of mysticism, Which is, I think, the future. -- Dave Davies
  • The sleeping tortoise takes all its limbs into its carapace. So does the yogi: going back into himself he does not see anything worldly any longer, he makes peace in himself. -- B.K.S. Iyengar
  • Intellectuals tend to be arrogant. Intelligence, like money, is a good servant but a bad master. When practicing pranayama, the yogi [makes] himself humble and without pride in his intellectual attainments. -- B.K.S. Iyengar
  • A lamp does not flicker in a place where no wind blows; so it is with a yogi, who controls his mind, intellect and self, being absorbed in the spirit within him. -- B.K.S. Iyengar
  • The ordinary man considers solids and liquids and the energy manifestations of the material world to be vastly different, but the yogi sees them as various vibrations of the one cosmic light. -- Paramahansa Yogananda
  • A new yogi doesn't handstand on their first try, and a new teacher doesn't start out as a headliner. Be patient, and trust it's all going to add up and unfold in due time. -- Kathryn Budig
  • Just as the athlete has his coach, the Hindu his yogi, and the student his mentor, there are many of us who find wisdom in dogs. Because of their teachings, we are better people. -- Jennifer Skiff
  • Near the foot of the mountain we visited a yogi who dwelled in a hollow tunneled beneath a boulder. He pondered our notion of climbing Shivling and said: 'First travel, then struggle, finally calm'. -- Greg Child
  • Take new values : Leave behind a legend to be followed by those who follow you. Be a yogi - don't be an ordinary person. -- Harbhajan Singh Yogi
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