Christy Turlington famous quotes

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.
-- Christy Turlington

#Spiritual #Pain #Ideas

When you are balanced and when you listen and attend to the needs of your body, mind, and spirit, your natural beauty comes out.
-- Christy Turlington

#Beauty #Mind #Needs

Parents should be the most important examples for their children.
-- Christy Turlington

#Children #Parent #Important

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.
-- Christy Turlington

#Sister #Philosophy #Yoga

Any spirituality can be enhanced with the practice or study of yoga.
-- Christy Turlington

#Yoga #Practice #Spirituality

It is better to not even try it than to endure the ramifications of either quitting smoking or dying.
-- Christy Turlington

#Marijuana #Smoking #Dying

I sincerely feel that beauty largely comes from within.
-- Christy Turlington

#Beauty #Feels #Sincerely

Yoga gave me the ability to calm down.
-- Christy Turlington

#Yoga #Calm #Quiet

Sacred spaces can be created in any environment.
-- Christy Turlington

#Inspirational #Space #Design

Now every model wants to be an actress
-- Christy Turlington

#Want #Actresses #Models

I KNOW THAT I CAN'T SOLVE ALL THE MATERNAL HEALTH CHALLENGES IN THE WORLD BY MYSELF. I NEED AND WANT OTHERS TO JOIN ME.
-- Christy Turlington

#Challenges #Needs #World

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.
-- Christy Turlington

#Children #Kids #Parenting

I think most people are curious about what it would be like to be able to meet yourself - -it's eerie.
-- Christy Turlington

#Crazy #Thinking #Eerie

Modeling is a profession where your worth is tied up with looks.
-- Christy Turlington

#Looks #Modeling #Profession

I was never directly pressured by peers, but by surrounding myself with others who were experimenting with smoking provided a certain false comfort.
-- Christy Turlington

#Marijuana #Smoking #Comfort

I love fashion, but I'm not obsessed with it.
-- Christy Turlington

#Fashion #Style #Obsessed

Yoga has brought me to the part of religion I really like - the positive sides of religion, the parts we all share, rather than the things that create separation.
-- Christy Turlington

#Yoga #Sides #Separation

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.
-- Christy Turlington

#Positivity #Awakening #Moments

I'd rather go naked than wear fur.
-- Christy Turlington

#Naked #Fur

So much of religion is exegesis. I would rather follow in the footprints of Christ than all of the dogma.
-- Christy Turlington

#Religion #Dogma #Christ

Yoga is about compassion and generosity towards others. It means being mindful of the world around us.
-- Christy Turlington

#Yoga #Mean #Compassion

Pranayama is the practice of breath control. The word prana refers not only to breath, but also to air and life itself.
-- Christy Turlington

#Life #Air #Practice

We should all reevaluate advertising that contradicts what we know to be the truth; especially when the ads are harmfully manipulative.
-- Christy Turlington

#Advertising #Should #Manipulative

The seated lotus postures are an amazing way to go into meditation, or simply just to take a moment to ground oneself.
-- Christy Turlington

#Meditation #Lotuses #Way

Most of us harbour a significant amount of subconscious fear about death, and act out of this fear in our daily lives.
-- Christy Turlington

#Daily Life #Significant #Harbour

Nicotine is both a stimulant and a depressant, so that can make one feel quite imbalanced.
-- Christy Turlington

#Nicotine #Feels #Depressants

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.
-- Christy Turlington

#Thinking #People #Tease

Yoga has reinforced and grounded my own spiritual beliefs.
-- Christy Turlington

#Spiritual #Yoga #Belief

Yoga is not a religion to me.
-- Christy Turlington

#Yoga #Religion

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.
-- Christy Turlington

#Buddhist #Yoga #Mind

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.
-- Christy Turlington

#Hands #Tools #Rising

For me, true beauty really does begin within and when it comes to skincare that means Imedeen.
-- Christy Turlington

#Mean #True Beauty #Doe

All women deserve access to care that can save their lives.
-- Christy Turlington

#Care #Deserve

I would be very proud to have influenced anyone that I know or don't know to quit smoking.
-- Christy Turlington

#Smoking #Would Be #Proud

I tried acupuncture, the patch, and hypnosis, but found that I needed to do it alone - when the time was right for me.
-- Christy Turlington

#Hypnosis #Acupuncture #Patches

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.
-- Christy Turlington

#Dream #Mountain #Everest

A lot of people have questioned how yoga and their own spiritual beliefs can come together. Yoga actually pre-dates religion.
-- Christy Turlington

#Spiritual #Yoga #People

You can usually tell when I'm happy by the fact that I've gained weight.
-- Christy Turlington

#Inspirational #Life #Motivational

That's a girl's life for the rest of her days- somewhere between a lollipop and shots.
-- Christy Turlington

#Girl #Lollipop #Shots

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.
-- Christy Turlington

#Sacrifice #Artist #Thinking

I never understand why people have children and then insist on living as though nothing has shifted.
-- Christy Turlington

#Children #People

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.
-- Christy Turlington

#Yoga #People #Joy

I started practicing Yoga at about 18. I had a friend who was doing it and was incredibly disciplined and meditated all the time.
-- Christy Turlington

#Yoga

Yoga is so universal in its principles and so holistically beneficial, it is possible for any person, young or old, religious or agnostic, to embrace and enjoy a practice.
-- Christy Turlington

#Religious #Yoga #Practice

I like the big questions.
-- Christy Turlington

#Bigs