Sri Chinmoy Quotes

If you want experiences to make you a better person, then you play two or three sports.

Your inner world reflects your outer world.

Man should develop his physical condition simultaneously with that of his mind.

Becoming rich isn't as much about getting rich financially as about whom you become, in character and mind, to get rich. I want to share a secret with you that few people know: the fastest way to get rich and stay rich is to work on developing you! The idea is to grow yourself into a successful person. Again, your outer world is merely a reflection of your inner world. You are the root; your results are the fruits.

The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning.

When a man starts out to build a world, He starts first with himself

You cannot change the world if you don't change your own world first.

When you practice yoga, first your personality changes, the faith increases, then confidence improves

The world "out there" won't change until the world "in here" does.

I run each day to preserve the self I attained the day before and to secure the self yet to be.

The more I run, the more I want to run, and the more I live a life conditioned and influenced and fashioned by my running. And the more I run, the more certain I am that I am heading for my real goal: to become the person I am.

You are the world. When you transform yourself, the world you live in will also be transformed.

The world can only change from within.

You cannot see the changes that you're dreaming about, because they're internal.

If you want to run, run a mile. If you want to experience a different life, run a marathon.

I'm a triathlete. Running is when I do my best living and my best thinking. I love the discipline, pushing yourself to suffer as much as you can, because it leads to a form of redemption.

The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.

Running gave me a focus to start looking after myself, to eat properly, and focus on building up my strength.

Track and field is the best way to reach out for kids. It doesn't matter how fast you are. You always want to beat someone.

You change your life by changing your heart.

I have been running since I was 7. I was trying to restructure the way my body was made instead of trying to master the way I ran. I would get so frustrated with my starts in practices that I would just cry. When I ran, I wouldn't even try to get out of the blocks, I would just run.

You can't have a physical transformation until you have a spiritual transformation.

I'm a massive yoga head. Lots of yoga and lots of running. I do Bikram yoga. I adore it.

Everybody wants to get enlightened but nobody wants to change.

The next frontier is not in front of us but inside us.