Christy Turlington Quotes

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

I'm flattered by the offers I receive, but there's no real strategy to the way I choose what to do these days. If I'm in a good mood and have the time, I'm more likely to consider it. Often the photographer and team are important factors, too.

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.

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

If you truly want to make an impact on the world, you can and you will.

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

Sacred spaces can be created in any environment.

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.

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

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

Love is connection with others. Union with another human being or living thing. That's also 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.

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.

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

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

I'd rather go naked than wear fur.

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.

I like the big questions.

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

I strongly believe that each preventable death is one death too many.

I am passionate about any effort to achieve social justice and equality, particularly for women.

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

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

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.

Parents should be the most important examples for their children.

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 is not a religion to me.

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

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.

Participating in a sisterhood with other women is hugely important in my life and a source of joy.

Yoga is an integral part of my daily routine. That definitely helps me approach all aspects of my life from a place of mindfulness and clarity, through the meditation that usually accompanies this practice.

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

I survived a potentially life-threatening childbirth-related complication after delivering my daughter. I learned that hundreds of thousands of girls and women die each year due to similar and often manageable complications. They die because they don't have access to critical maternity care that could easily save their lives.

I'm not entirely comfortable with myself in underwear.

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 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.

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.

Being of service to others daily makes me feel alive.