Patanjali Quotes

People of Wealth and the so called upper class suffer the most from boredom.

It is the just doom of laziness and gluttony to be inactive without ease and drowsy without tranquility.

Progress is a comfortable disease.

Ennui is the desire of activity without the fit means of gratifying the desire.

Believing nothing does whilst there remained anything else to be done.

Yoga exercises are excellent; the speaker does them every day, for an hour or more; but that is merely physical exercise, to keep the body healthy, and so on.

Poor tired Tim! It's sad for him He lags the long bright morning through, Ever so tired of nothing to do.

Don't you think that's the main reason people find [writing] so difficult? If they can write complete sentences and can use a dictionary, isn't that the only reason they find writing hard: they don't know or care about anything?

Indolence and stupidity are first cousins.

One who does not rouse themself when it is time to rise, who, though capable, is full of sloth, whose will and thought are weak, that lazy and idle person will never find their way to true knowledge.

I only know one yoga: 'You Go.'

There is no doubt of the essential nobility of that man who pours into life the honest vigor of his toil, over those who compose the feathery foam of fashion that sweeps along Broadway; who consider the insignia of honor to consist in wealth and indolence; and who, ignoring the family history, paint coats of arms to cover up the leather aprons of their grandfathers.

Indolence, languid as it is, often masters both passions and virtues.

I don't know if there's enough vision. Industry wide, the apathy regarding this recent problem is already setting in - shiny things are happening elsewhere, people are forgetting.

In indolent vacuity of thought.

What people will do to get away from boredom!

I've been thrown out of schools and fired from jobs. I don't want to work. I can honestly say I haven't done an honest day's work in my life.

The Devil may take the reckless, but the good will surely die of boredom. Boredom and frustration.

I do yoga and weights, mainly. I still box. I box once a week, but I don't get punched in the face anymore. I just hit the bags now. I'm done with that competitive side of it.

[On yoga] Once you've completed a wonderful class, you get a sense of the deepest, purest part of yourself. You feel like you are connected to everybody else in the world.

Negativity is basically laziness.

You don't have to go the gym - just walk 10,000 steps a day and you are activating your good genes. But do practise yoga.

Everything looks like a failure in the middle. In neary every change project, doubt is cast on the original vision because problems are mounting and the end is nowhere in sight.