Christy Turlington Quotes
"Nicotine is both a stimulant and a depressant, so that can make one feel quite imbalanced."
- Christy Turlington
"Parents should be the most important examples for their children."
- Christy Turlington
(Related: Children, Parents)
"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
(Related: Environment, Kids, Order, Parents, Smoking)
"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
(Related: People)
"Pranayama is the practice of breath control. The word prana refers not only to breath, but also to air and life itself."
- Christy Turlington
(Related: Life, Control, Practice, Word)
"Sacred spaces can be created in any environment."
- Christy Turlington
(Related: Environment)
"The seated lotus postures are an amazing way to go into meditation, or simply just to take a moment to ground oneself."
- Christy Turlington
(Related: Meditation)
"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
(Related: Experience, Life)
"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
(Related: Beauty, Body, Mind, Needs, Spirit)
"Yoga gave me the ability to calm down."
- Christy Turlington
(Related: Ability, Yoga)
"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
(Related: Buddhist, Body, Mind, Sense, Spirit, Word, Yoga)
"Yoga has reinforced and grounded my own spiritual beliefs."
- Christy Turlington
(Related: Beliefs, Spiritual, Yoga)
"Yoga is about compassion and generosity towards others. It means being mindful of the world around us."
- Christy Turlington
(Related: Being, Compassion, Generosity, World, Yoga)
"Yoga is not a religion to me."
- Christy Turlington
(Related: Religion, Yoga)
"You can usually tell when I'm happy by the fact that I've put on weight."
- Christy Turlington
(Related: Fact, Weight)
"So much of religion is exegesis. I would rather follow in the footprints of Christ than all of the dogma."
- Christy Turlington
(Related: Religion, Christ)
"I sincerely feel that beauty largely comes from within."
- Christy Turlington
(Related: Beauty)
"Any spirituality can be enhanced with the practice or study of yoga."
- Christy Turlington
(Related: Practice, Spirituality, Study, Yoga)
"A lot of people have questioned how yoga and their own spiritual beliefs can come together. Yoga actually pre-dates religion."
- Christy Turlington
(Related: Religion, People, Beliefs, Spiritual, Yoga)
"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
(Related: Idea, Pain, Practice, Spiritual)
"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
(Related: Sacrifice, People, Artists, Being, Freedom, Influence)
"I have a beer belly."
- Christy Turlington
(Related: Beer)
"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
(Related: Dream, Mountains)
"I like the big questions."
- Christy Turlington
(Related: Questions)
"Most of us harbour a significant amount of subconscious fear about death, and act out of this fear in our daily lives."
- Christy Turlington
(Related: Death, Fear, Act)
"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
(Related: Life, People, Day, Yoga)
"Modeling is a profession where your worth is tied up with looks."
- Christy Turlington
(Related: Profession, Worth)
"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
(Related: Time, Friend, Yoga)
"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
(Related: Time, Right)
"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
(Related: Comfort, Smoking)
"I would be very proud to have influenced anyone that I know or don't know to quit smoking."
- Christy Turlington
(Related: Smoking)
"I'd rather go naked than wear fur."
- Christy Turlington
"It is better to not even try it than to endure the ramifications of either quitting smoking or dying."
- Christy Turlington
(Related: Dying, Quitting, Smoking)
"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
(Related: Death, Education, Succeed, Tools, Will)
"I never understand why people have children and then insist on living as though nothing has shifted."
- Christy Turlington
(Related: People, Children, Living, Nothing)
"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
(Related: Life, Power, Science, Nature, Sister, Longevity, Philosophy, Yoga)