Quotes by Christy Turlington

• What I did for a living for so many years separated who I was from what I did.
• Nicotine is both a stimulant and a depressant, so that can make one feel quite imbalanced.
• Parents should be the most important examples for their children.
• Parents should not smoke in order to discourage their kids from smoking. A child is more likely to smoke when they have been raised in the environment of a smoker.
• People always think that if you eat anything as a model, it's amazing. I used to tease them and say, you know I'm going to throw up afterwards.
• Pranayama is the practice of breath control. The word prana refers not only to breath, but also to air and life itself.
• Sacred spaces can be created in any environment.
• The seated lotus postures are an amazing way to go into meditation, or simply just to take a moment to ground oneself.
• It is possible to experience an awakening in this life through realising just how precious each moment, each mental process, and each breath truly is.
• When you are balanced and when you listen and attend to the needs of your body, mind, and spirit, your natural beauty comes out.
• Yoga gave me the ability to calm down.
• Yoga has brought me closer to myself. It's helped me realize the interconnectedness of the mind, body and spirit, in the Buddhist sense of the word.
• Yoga has reinforced and grounded my own spiritual beliefs.
• Yoga is about compassion and generosity towards others. It means being mindful of the world around us.
• Yoga is not a religion to me.
• You can usually tell when I'm happy by the fact that I've put on weight.
• So much of religion is exegesis. I would rather follow in the footprints of Christ than all of the dogma.
• I sincerely feel that beauty largely comes from within.
• Any spirituality can be enhanced with the practice or study of yoga.
• A lot of people have questioned how yoga and their own spiritual beliefs can come together. Yoga actually pre-dates religion.
• As long as I was breathing with the contractions and not pushing against them, I felt better. That idea is fundamental-to feel pain and not to resist; to go towards it. It is an incredibly spiritual practice.
• I don't think that artists of any kind would or could sacrifice their artistic freedom by being more responsible with their influence on people, especially young people.
• I have a beer belly.
• I have lots of other mountains that I would like to climb. I have no dream of Everest, but there are some, like Mount Fuji, I'd like to do.
• I like the big questions.
• Most of us harbour a significant amount of subconscious fear about death, and act out of this fear in our daily lives.
• I really wanted to share with people the day-to-day joys that yoga can bring into one's life-not just the physical aspects.
• Modeling is a profession where your worth is tied up with looks.
• I started practicing Yoga at about 18. I had a friend who was doing it and was incredibly disciplined and meditated all the time.
• I tried acupuncture, the patch, and hypnosis, but found that I needed to do it alone - when the time was right for me.
• I was never directly pressured by peers, but by surrounding myself with others who were experimenting with smoking provided a certain false comfort.
• I would be very proud to have influenced anyone that I know or don't know to quit smoking.
• I'd rather go naked than wear fur.
• It is better to not even try it than to endure the ramifications of either quitting smoking or dying.
• It is education that will arm us with the tools that will enable us to succeed and put a stop to the rising rates of preventable death.
• I never understand why people have children and then insist on living as though nothing has shifted.
• Ayurveda is a sister philosophy to yoga. It is the science of life or longevity and it teaches about the power and the cycles of nature, as well as the elements.