Quotes By Christy Turlington

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

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

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.

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

Yoga is not a religion to me.

Most of us harbour a significant amount of subconscious fear about death, and act out of this fear in our daily lives.

Yoga gave me the ability to calm down.

I tried acupuncture, the patch, and hypnosis, but found that I needed to do it alone - when the time was right for me.

I like the big questions.

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.

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.

Yoga is about compassion and generosity towards others. It means being mindful of the world around us.

I'd rather go naked than wear fur.

Nicotine is both a stimulant and a depressant, so that can make one feel quite imbalanced.

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.

Sacred spaces can be created in any environment.

I have a beer belly.

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

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

What I did for a living for so many years separated who I was from what I did.

So much of religion is exegesis. I would rather follow in the footprints of Christ than all of the dogma.

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 has reinforced and grounded my own spiritual beliefs.

You can usually tell when I'm happy by the fact that I've put on weight.

I was never directly pressured by peers, but by surrounding myself with others who were experimenting with smoking provided a certain false comfort.

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.

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.

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.

Pranayama is the practice of breath control. The word prana refers not only to breath, but also to air and life itself.

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