Heavenly Hirani's School of Laughing Yoga Quotes

“Not for us the difficult poses, not for us the no-pain-no-gain, OK? Because to be truly happy you do not need to be a pretzel, you just need to walk without creaking.”
― Sarah-Kate Lynch, Heavenly Hirani's School of Laughing Yoga

“The only secrets I know are that if you keep your body moving and you know what is in your heart, your life will be better for it. It is not rocket science.”
― Sarah-Kate Lynch, Heavenly Hirani's School of Laughing Yoga

“She let go of the loneliness, the pain, the resentment, the fear, the past, the disappointments, the worry about the children, the future, the car accidents, and she just laughed. Because everyone needs to laugh. What was done was done, what was lost was lost, but there was still a lot to be found.”
― Sarah-Kate Lynch, Heavenly Hirani's School of Laughing Yoga

“Your life got busy with work and you got used to pulling away, and I filled my life up with the children and got used to biting my tongue. That’s how we derailed.”
― Sarah-Kate Lynch, Heavenly Hirani's School of Laughing Yoga

“I’m un-leaving you. I made a mistake. I was wrong.”
― Sarah-Kate Lynch, Heavenly Hirani's School of Laughing Yoga

“she might have been truthful and had tried to be gentle, but to be fearless was so much harder. The fearless thing to do was not to run away and leave Hugh behind: it was to face him, head on, and try to resurrect what they had — try to fix it, no matter how difficult and painful that was. Because he did love her. And she loved him. Heavenly had said you only need to be sure about one thing. This was it. They just needed to get the balance back again.”
― Sarah-Kate Lynch, Heavenly Hirani's School of Laughing Yoga

“love was all there was. And she had it, even if it wasn’t displayed the way she wanted it to be.”
― Sarah-Kate Lynch, Heavenly Hirani's School of Laughing Yoga

“She was loved. Maybe not wildly or openly, but deeply. So deeply that it wasn’t always obvious, but deeply nonetheless.”
― Sarah-Kate Lynch, Heavenly Hirani's School of Laughing Yoga

“It is only a reminder of that great love. And he builds it to last forever. Or one thousand years, which is like forever but shorter.”
― Sarah-Kate Lynch, Heavenly Hirani's School of Laughing Yoga

“Be truthful, gentle and fearless. The words floated back into her consciousness as though on fluttering muslin in front of an open window.”
― Sarah-Kate Lynch, Heavenly Hirani's School of Laughing Yoga

“Right now it just felt . . . inevitable. And unalterable. She couldn’t have changed her mind even if she wanted to. She’d fled, and there was no fleeing back. That would be worse than continuing to do nothing, than living with the status quo.”
― Sarah-Kate Lynch, Heavenly Hirani's School of Laughing Yoga

“Mum” for beautiful and “taz” for royal.”
― Sarah-Kate Lynch, Heavenly Hirani's School of Laughing Yoga

“You had to make yourself know about the good things,”
― Sarah-Kate Lynch, Heavenly Hirani's School of Laughing Yoga

“Bad things happen, but good things happen, too, ma’am. Sometimes you must make yourself know about the good things. Especially in India.”
― Sarah-Kate Lynch, Heavenly Hirani's School of Laughing Yoga

“if you plant yourself anywhere in the ground for long enough you start to take root,”
― Sarah-Kate Lynch, Heavenly Hirani's School of Laughing Yoga

“how would you ever know that if you stayed your whole life in the same patch?”
― Sarah-Kate Lynch, Heavenly Hirani's School of Laughing Yoga

“Maybe you’ll be pleased, or relieved, or — how dreadful that I don’t know what you’ll be. That’s the problem, right there in a nutshell.”
― Sarah-Kate Lynch, Heavenly Hirani's School of Laughing Yoga

“Heavenly Hirani says that in India you don’t need to die to be reincarnated, and I think that’s what has happened to me. I’m a new person now and I’m done with the old one. I don’t know if we can go back.”
― Sarah-Kate Lynch, Heavenly Hirani's School of Laughing Yoga

“You’ll methodically do everything you can to find me, then tick that off your list: a job well done. But will you ever even want to know why I went missing?”
― Sarah-Kate Lynch, Heavenly Hirani's School of Laughing Yoga

“think the love is still there but, Hugh, I just don’t know if that’s enough. When I ask you if you can understand how I feel, I need you to at least try, because otherwise I’m just another lost banana-picker.”
― Sarah-Kate Lynch, Heavenly Hirani's School of Laughing Yoga

“I need laughter. I need joy. I need to be happy. And I need to be loved, Hugh — deliriously, openly, continuously loved. And I need to be UNDERSTOOD.”
― Sarah-Kate Lynch, Heavenly Hirani's School of Laughing Yoga

“But now that I’m not needed to take care of any of you, now that no one seems to notice if I do or I don’t, I can’t work out what to do with myself.”
― Sarah-Kate Lynch, Heavenly Hirani's School of Laughing Yoga

“Be truthful, gentle and fearless, she told herself. That was the best anyone could be.”
― Sarah-Kate Lynch, Heavenly Hirani's School of Laughing Yoga

“But, ma’am, you are only on your first life and I have had six.”
― Sarah-Kate Lynch, Heavenly Hirani's School of Laughing Yoga

“His tendency to casually drop into the conversation, without expecting even a smidgen of sympathy, the likes of sleeping in the middle of a roundabout staggered her.”
― Sarah-Kate Lynch, Heavenly Hirani's School of Laughing Yoga

“You are a wise and wonderful woman.’ ‘No more wise and wonderful than anyone else,’ Heavenly said. ‘You should not forget this.”
― Sarah-Kate Lynch, Heavenly Hirani's School of Laughing Yoga

“She sat there in silence, holding the old woman’s hand, and a strange tiny nugget of something like anticipation wriggled in her stomach like a mustard seed frying in hot ghee, jumping and popping. Everything nice and safe was boring. Everything dangerous and risky was exciting. Maybe she should try some excitement.”
― Sarah-Kate Lynch, Heavenly Hirani's School of Laughing Yoga

“Ganesh, the elephant-faced god,”
― Sarah-Kate Lynch, Heavenly Hirani's School of Laughing Yoga

“What a strange place it was in which there could be no running water, no dishwasher, no computer, no telephone, no supermarket, none of the things she took for granted, other than the ubiquitous TV aerial, yet the houses were painted to look like jewellery boxes and the people in them clothed themselves to look like jewels.”
― Sarah-Kate Lynch, Heavenly Hirani's School of Laughing Yoga

“how hard it was to see strength of spirit trumped by weakness of flesh.”
― Sarah-Kate Lynch, Heavenly Hirani's School of Laughing Yoga