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Christy Turlington
American
Model
About the author
What I did for a living for so many years separated who I was from what I did.
Christy Turlington,
American
Model
#Years
#Living
Nicotine is both a stimulant and a depressant, so that can make one feel quite imbalanced.
Christy Turlington,
American
Model
Parents should be the most important examples for their children.
Christy Turlington,
American
Model
#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,
American
Model
#Kids
#Parents
#Environment
#Order
#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,
American
Model
#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,
American
Model
#Life
#Practice
#Word
#Control
Sacred spaces can be created in any environment.
Christy Turlington,
American
Model
#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,
American
Model
#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,
American
Model
#Life
#Experience
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,
American
Model
#Needs
#Spirit
#Mind
#Body
#Beauty
Yoga gave me the ability to calm down.
Christy Turlington,
American
Model
#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,
American
Model
#Spirit
#Sense
#Word
#Mind
#Body
#Yoga
#Buddhist
Yoga has reinforced and grounded my own spiritual beliefs.
Christy Turlington,
American
Model
#Spiritual
#Beliefs
#Yoga
Yoga is about compassion and generosity towards others. It means being mindful of the world around us.
Christy Turlington,
American
Model
#World
#Being
#Generosity
#Yoga
#Compassion
Yoga is not a religion to me.
Christy Turlington,
American
Model
#Religion
#Yoga
You can usually tell when I'm happy by the fact that I've put on weight.
Christy Turlington,
American
Model
#Fact
#Weight
So much of religion is exegesis. I would rather follow in the footprints of Christ than all of the dogma.
Christy Turlington,
American
Model
#Christ
#Religion
I sincerely feel that beauty largely comes from within.
Christy Turlington,
American
Model
#Beauty
Any spirituality can be enhanced with the practice or study of yoga.
Christy Turlington,
American
Model
#Study
#Practice
#Yoga
#Spirituality
A lot of people have questioned how yoga and their own spiritual beliefs can come together. Yoga actually pre-dates religion.
Christy Turlington,
American
Model
#People
#Religion
#Spiritual
#Beliefs
#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,
American
Model
#Practice
#Idea
#Spiritual
#Pain
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,
American
Model
#People
#Sacrifice
#Being
#Freedom
#Influence
#Artists
I have a beer belly.
Christy Turlington,
American
Model
#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,
American
Model
#Mountains
#Dream
I like the big questions.
Christy Turlington,
American
Model
#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,
American
Model
#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,
American
Model
#Life
#People
#Day
#Yoga
Modeling is a profession where your worth is tied up with looks.
Christy Turlington,
American
Model
#Worth
#Profession
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,
American
Model
#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,
American
Model
#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,
American
Model
#Comfort
#Smoking
I would be very proud to have influenced anyone that I know or don't know to quit smoking.
Christy Turlington,
American
Model
#Smoking
I'd rather go naked than wear fur.
Christy Turlington,
American
Model
It is better to not even try it than to endure the ramifications of either quitting smoking or dying.
Christy Turlington,
American
Model
#Dying
#Smoking
#Quitting
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,
American
Model
#Will
#Death
#Education
#Succeed
#Tools
I never understand why people have children and then insist on living as though nothing has shifted.
Christy Turlington,
American
Model
#People
#Nothing
#Children
#Living
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,
American
Model
#Life
#Longevity
#Science
#Power
#Nature
#Philosophy
#Sister
#Yoga