Anyone who does yoga will tell you that it’s more than just difficult poses and positive affirmations; it’s not about incense and frills. Yoga is a lifestyle and approach to positivity which seeks to enlighten the spirit and attune body and mind.
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Yoga Quotes
Yoga is invigoration in relaxation. Freedom in routine. Confidence through self-control. Energy within and energy without.– Ymber Delecto
A flower does not think of competing to the flower next to it. It just blooms.– Zen Shin
The study of asana is not about mastering posture. It’s about using posture to understand and transform yourself.– B.K.S Iyengar
All I’m saying is that to liberate the potential of your mind, body and soul, you must first expand your imagination. You see, things are always created twice: first in the workshop of the mind and then, and only then, in reality. I call this process ‘blueprinting’ because anything you create in your outer world began as a simple blueprint in your inner world.– Robin Sharma
Through practice, I’ve come to see that the deepest source of my misery is not wanting things to be the way they are. Not wanting myself to be the way I am. Not wanting the world to be the way it is. Not wanting others to be the way they are. Whenever I’m suffering, I find this war with reality to be at the heart of the problem.– Stephen Cope
Your hand opens and closes and opens and closes. If it were always a fist or always stretched open, you would be paralyzed. Your deepest presence is in every small contracting and expanding, the two as beautifully balanced and coordinated as bird wings.– Rumi
You may think that only you are a prisoner, but other people are also prisoners. You are in a small prison, but others are in the big prison outside. When will they be released? Think that you are a yogi and that you are pursuing your sadhana in this particular place and at this particular moment. Immediately you will experience great joy. If you change your understanding, you will be free in a minute.– Baba MuktanandaThere is always room for change but you have to be open to that change.– Kathryn Budig
I was looking for someone to inspire me, motivate me, support me, keep me focused… Someone who would love me, cherish me, make me happy, and I realized all along that I was looking for myself.– UnknownThat’s why it’s called a practice. We have to practice a practice if it is to be of value.– Peace Pilgrim
Yoga exists in the world because everything is linked.– Desikashar
Calming the mind is yoga. Not just standing on the head.– Swami SatchidanandaAlthough yoga has its origins in ancient India, its methods and purposes are universal, relying not on cultural background, faith or deity, but simply on the individual. Yoga has become important in the lives of many contemporary Westerners, sometimes as a way of improving health and fitness of the body, but also as a means of personal and spiritual development.– Tara FraserYoga is the fountain of youth. You’re only as young as your spine is flexible.– Bob HarperBy embracing your mother wound as your yoga, you transform what has been a hindrance in your life into a teacher of the heart.– Phillip MoffittDon’t move the way fear makes you move. Move the way love makes you move. Move the way joy makes you move.– OshoTrue yoga is not about the shape of your body, but the shape of your life. Yoga is not to be performed; yoga is to be lived. Yoga doesn’t care about what you have been; yoga cares about the person you are becoming. Yoga is designed for a vast and profound purpose, and for it to be truly called yoga, its essence must be embodied.– Aadil PalkhivalaYoga is the cessation of the movements of the mind. Then there is abiding in the Seer’s own form.– Patañjali
Penetration of our mind is our goal, but in the beginning to set things in motion, there is no substitute for sweat.– B. K. S. IyengarMeditation is a way for nourishing and blossoming the divinity within you.– Amit RayTrue meditation is about being fully present with everything that is–including discomfort and challenges. It is not an escape from life.– Craig HamiltonYoga is not just repetition of few postures – it is more about the exploration and discovery of the subtle energies of life.– Amit RayInhale the future. Exhale the past.– UnknownMost people have no idea how good their body is designed to feel.– Kevin TrudeauTrue yoga is not about the shape of your body, but the shape of your life. Yoga is not to be performed; yoga is to be lived. Yoga doesn’t care about what you have been; yoga cares about the person you are becoming. Yoga is designed for a vast and profound purpose, and for it to be truly called yoga, its essence must be embodied.– Aadil PalkhivalaWhen you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others.– Peace Pilgrim
You either get bitter or get better. It’s that simple. You either take what has been dealt to you and allow it to make you a better person, or you allow it to tear you down. The choice does not belong to fate, it belongs to you.– Josh ShippYoga begins right where I am – not where I was yesterday or where I long to be.– Linda SparroweChange is not only inevitable, but always happening. When you truly embrace this concept of change being constant, the only thing left to do is grow, detach, venture inwards, touch the spirit and find your source — the one responsible for keeping you grounded through the ever-changing seasons of life.– Julie WeilandDon’t move the way fear makes you move. Move the way love makes you move. Move the way joy makes you move.– Osho
I have been a seeker and I still am, but I stopped asking the books and the stars. I started listening to the teaching of my Soul.– RumiYou are the sky, everything else is just the weather.– Pema Chodron
Yoga is not a work-out, it is a work-in. And this is the point of spiritual practice; to make us teachable; to open up our hearts and focus our awareness so that we can know what we already know and be who we already are.– Rolf Gates
It is not arrogant or egotistical to feel good inside. You had nothing to do with it. It’s simply the honest response to clearly perceived Reality.– Erich Schiffman
I offer you peace. I offer you love. I offer you friendship. I see your beauty. I hear your need. I feel your feelings. My wisdom flows from the Highest Source. I salute that Source in you. Let us work together for unity and love.– Gandhi
Yoga is a light which once lit will never dim, the better your practice the brighter your flame.– B.K.S. Iyengar
If you choose to see everything as a miracle, then where you are right now is perfect. There is nowhere to run to; there is nothing else to do except be in this moment and allow what is to be. From that place of radical acceptance, major change can happen. The first step in any transformational experience is acceptance and surrender to the present moment, the way that it is. From that place we have the awareness, humility and power to change what is.– Mastin Kipp
Wisdom is knowing we are all One. Love is what it feels like and Compassion is what it acts like.– Ethan Walker III
Have only love in your heart for others. The more you see the good in them, the more you will establish good in yourself.– Paramahansa Yogananda
Mindfulness helps you go home to the present. And every time you go there and recognize a condition of happiness that you have, happiness comes.– Thich Nhat HanhIn meditation and in our daily lives there are three qualities that we can nurture, cultivate, and bring out. We already possess these, but they can be ripened: precision, gentleness, and the ability to let go.– Pema Chodron
Inner peace begins the moment you choose not to allow another person or event to control your emotions.– Pema Chodron
Your soul is your best friend. Treat it with care, nurture it with growth, feed it with love.– Ashourina Yalda
The body benefits from movement, and the mind benefits from stillness.– Sakyong Mipham
Inspirational Yoga Quotes
“Yoga is the fountain of youth. You’re only as young as your spine is flexible.”Bob Harper
“Yoga is the dance of every cell with the music of every breath that creates inner serenity and harmony.”Debasish Mridha
“Exercises are like prose, whereas yoga is the poetry of movements. Once you understand the grammar of yoga; you can write your poetry of movements.”Amit Ray
“Yoga is 99% practice and 1% theory.”Sri Krishna Pattabhi Jois
“Yoga is the cessation of the movements of the mind. Then there is abiding in the Seer’s own form.”Patañjali
“A photographer gets people to pose for him. A yoga instructor gets people to pose for themselves.”T. Guillemets
“Yoga does not always cure stress. It neutralizes it through increasing awareness and by changing self-perception.”Debasish Mridha
“Yoga is the unifying art of transforming dharma into action, be it through inspired thought, properly nurturing our children, a painting, a kindness or an act of peace that forever moves humanity forward.”Micheline Berry
“Yoga means addition – addition of energy, strength and beauty to body, mind and soul.”Amit Ray
“Undisturbed calmness of mind is attained by cultivating friendliness toward the happy, compassion for the unhappy, delight in the virtuous, and indifference toward the wicked.”Patañjali“Yoga does not remove us from the reality or responsibilities of everyday life but rather places our feet firmly and resolutely in the practical ground of experience. We don’t transcend our lives; we return to the life we left behind in the hopes of something better.”Donna Farhi
“Yoga is not only a process of the integration of the soul, mind, and body for self-improvement, it is a process of self -realization and self -acceptance.”Debasish Mridha
“Yoga is the space where flower blossoms.”Amit Ray“[It] is important not to abandon the practice [of yoga]because we believe it is driven by the wrong motivation. The practice of yoga itself transforms. Yoga has a magical quality.”Ravi Ravindra
“Yoga reveals to you the beauty of mindfulness and takes you into the essence of an endless present moment.”Debasish Mridha“Yoga is the process of eliminating pain – pain form the body, mind and the society.”Amit Ray
“To the yogi, all experience is seen as one, as a means to help him cultivate devotion. All experiences have equal meaning and value.”Prem Prakash“Yoga means addition – addition of energy, strength and beauty to body, mind and soul.”Amit Ray“For those wounded by civilization, yoga is the most healing salve.”T. Guillemets“That’s why it’s called a practice. We have to practice a practice if it is to be of value.”Allan Lokos
“Misery, like yoga, is not a competitive sport”Matt Haig“You may not be able to control the whole world, but you may learn to control your inner world through yoga.”Debasish Mridha“Practice makes comfort. Expand your experiences regularly so every stretch won’t feel like your first.”Gina Greenlee
“Yoga practice can make us more and more sensitive to subtler and subtler sensations in the body. Paying attention to and staying with finer and finer sensations within the body is one of the surest ways to steady the wandering mind.”Ravi Ravindra“The true miracle lies in our eagerness to allow, appreciate, and honor the uniqueness, and freedom of each sentient being to sing the song of their heart.”Amit Ray“Why [do]they always look so serious in Yoga? [When] you make [a]serious face like this, you scare away good energy. To meditate, only you must smile. Smile with face, smile with the mind, and good energy will come to you and clean away dirty energy.”Elizabeth Gilbert“Yoga makes you harmonious with nature and teaches you to be joyfully curious about your inner world.”Debasish Mridha
Yoga Quotes And Sayings
Yoga began with the first person wanting to be healthy and happy all the time.Sri Swami Satchidananda
No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditationWalter Bagehot
Breathe Through the Pain, It Always Gets Easier with Time.Dashama Konah Gordon
Yoga teaches us to cure what need not be endured and endure what cannot be cured.B.K.S. Iyengar
In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you.Deepak Chopra
In truth, yoga doesn’t “take time” — it gives time.Ganga White
When meditation is mastered, the mind is unwavering like the flame of a lamp in a windless place.Bhagavad Gita
One succeeds in all Yogas through energetic practice—even if one is young, old, very old, sick, or weak.SvatmaramaTo perform every action artfully is yoga.Swami KripaluThe ultimate essence of yoga is the contact and the union between the individual consciousness and the divine consciousness.Raphael, Essence
You must find the place inside yourself where nothing is impossible.Deepak Chopra
Yoga is the perfect opportunity to be curious about who you are.Jason CrandellMeditation is such a more substantial reality than what we normally take to be reality.Richard Gere
Through the practices of yoga, we discover that concern for the happiness and well being of others, including animals, must be an essential part of our own quest for happiness and well being. The fork can be a powerful weapon of mass destruction or a tool to create peace on Earth.Sharon Gannon
That’s exactly how it is in yoga. The places where you have the most resistance are actually the places that are going to be the areas of the greatest liberation.Rodney Yee
Tree pose grows confidence. It roots me to this world.Terri Guillemets
Meditation is defined by not just the mode of thinking, but also the object of thoughtChaitanya Charan Das
Take a Tree Pose in your life.Kathryn E. LivingstonPain and Happiness are the coverings over realityYogi Vini
Happiness is a state of inner fulfillment.Matthieu RicardYoga is the fountain of youth. You’re only as young as your spine is flexible.Bob HarperMeditation is painful in the beginning but it bestows immortal bliss and supreme joy in the end.Swami SivanandaPaths are many, Truth is ONE!Swami SatchitanandaYou cannot control anything except your thoughts. With yoga, you do not control yourself but you harmonize with nature.Debasish MridhaA photographer gets people to pose for him. A yoga instructor gets people to pose for themselves.T. GuillemetsIt doesn’t matter how deep into a posture you go, what matters is who you are when you get there.Max StromYoga is a light, which once lit, will never dim. The better your practice, the brighter the flame.B.K.S. Iyengar
Yoga Quotes About Life
“It’s not about being good at something. It’s about being good to yourself.”
“Inhale the future, exhale the past.”
“A flower does not think of competing to the flower next to it. It just blooms.”
“Letting go is the hardest asana.”
“The pose begins when you want to leave it.”
“Yoga is the journey of the self, through the self, to the self.” — The Bhagavad Gita
“You cannot always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside.”
“Be where you are, not where you think you should be.”
“Just breathe.”
“The longest journey of any person is the journey inward.”
Yoga Quotes About Strength
“Yoga is almost like music in a way; there’s no end to it.” – Sting
“Inhale the future, exhale the past.” – Anonymous
“A photographer gets people to pose for him. A yoga instructor gets people to pose for themselves.” – T. Guillemets
“By embracing your mother wound as your yoga, you transform what has been a hindrance in your life into a teacher of the heart.” – Phillip Moffitt
“Yoga is 99% practice and 1% theory.” – Sri Krishna Pattabhi Jois
“When the breath wanders the mind also is unsteady. But when the breath is calmed the mind too will be still, and the yogi achieves long life. Therefore, one should learn to control the breath.” – Hatha Yoga Pradipika
“You cannot always control what goes on outside.But you can always control what goes on inside.” – Wayne Dyer
“Yoga is invigoration in relaxation. Freedom in routine. Confidence through self control. Energy within and energy without.” – Ymber Delecto
“Concentrating on poses clears the mind, while focusing on the breath helps the body shift out of fight or flight mode.” – Melanie Haiken, yoga quotes about breath
“The most important pieces of equipment you need for doing yoga are your body and your mind.” – Rodney Yee
“Yoga has a sly, clever way of short circuiting the mental patterns that cause anxiety.”- Baxter Bell
“Yoga teaches us to cure what need not be endured and endure what cannot be cured.” – B.K.S. Iyengar
“Yoga, an ancient but perfect science, deals with the evolution of humanity. This evolution includes all aspects of one’s being, from bodily health to self realization. Yoga means union – the union of body with consciousness and consciousness with the soul. Yoga cultivates the ways of maintaining a balanced attitude in day to day life and endows skill in the performance of one’s actions.” – B.K.S. Iyengar
“Through the practices of yoga, we discover that concern for the happiness and well being of others, including animals, must be an essential part of our own quest for happiness and well being. The fork can be a powerful weapon of mass destruction or a tool to create peace on Earth.” – Sharon Gannon
When you inhale, you are taking the strength from God. When you exhale, it represents the service you are giving to the world.” – B.K.S. Iyengar
“The yoga mat is a good place to turn when talk therapy and antidepressants aren’t enough.” – Amy Weintraub
“Yoga is possible for anybody who really wants it. Yoga is universal…. But don’t approach yoga with a business mind looking for worldly gain.” – Sri Krishna Pattabhi Jois
“For me, yoga is not just a workout – it’s about working on yourself.” – Mary Glover
“This world is your body. This world is a great school; This world is your silent teacher.” – Swami Sivananda
“The ultimate goal of yoga is to always observe things accurately, and therefore never act in a way that will make us regret our actions later.” – T.K.V. Desikachar
“Vogue and Self are putting out the message of yoginis as buff and perfect. If you start doing yoga for those reasons, fine. Most people get beyond that and see that it’s much, much more.” – Patricia Walden
“When asked what gift he wanted for his birthday, the yogi replied: I wish no gifts, only presence.” – Anonymous
“If I’m losing balance in a pose, I stretch higher and God reaches down to steady me. It works every time, and not just in yoga.” – T. Guillemets
“Anyone who practices can obtain success in yoga but not one who is lazy. Constant practice alone is the secret of success.” – Svatmarama
“Yoga is the practice of quieting the mind.” – Patanjali
Short Yoga Quotes
“Yoga is 99 percent practice and one percent theory.”
“Do your practice and all is coming.”
“Yoga is possible for anybody who really wants it. Yoga is universal…. But don’t approach yoga with a business mind looking for worldly gain.”
“The success of Yoga does not lie in the ability to perform postures but in how it positively changes the way we live our life and our relationships.”
“The quality of our breath expresses our inner feelings.”
“The ultimate goal of yoga is to always observe things accurately, and therefore never act in a way that will make us regret our actions later.”
“Have only love in your heart for others. The more you see the good in them, the more you will establish good in yourself.”
“The more you meditate, the more helpful you can be to others, and the more deeply you will be in tune with God.”
“The sun shines down, and its image reflects in a thousand different pots filled with water. The reflections are many, but they are each reflecting the same sun. Similarly, when we come to know who we truly are, we will see ourselves in all people.”
“True happiness is when the love that is within us finds expression in external activities.”
“When this body has been so magnificently and artistically created by God, it is only fitting that we should maintain it in good health and harmony by the most excellent and artistic science of Yoga.”
“The body is your temple. Keep it pure and clean for the soul to reside in.”
“Everyone has in him something divine, something his own, a chance of perfection and strength in however small a sphere which God offers him to take or refuse. The task is to find it, develop it & use it. The chief aim of education should be to help the growing soul to draw out that in itself which is best and make it perfect for a noble use.”
“The practice of Yoga brings us face to face with the extraordinary complexity of our own being.”
“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.”
“I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect.”
“The attitude of gratitude is the highest yoga.”
“By our stumbling the world is perfected.”
“Feel good, be good, and do good.”
“Live in the present, forget the past. Give up hopes of future.”
“This world is your body. This world is a great school, This world is your silent teacher.”
“Put you heart, mind, intellect and soul even into your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.”
The meaning of our self is not to be found in its separateness from God and others, but in the ceaseless realization of yoga, of union.”