106 Inspiring Yoga Quotes (Find One For Your Practice) (2024)

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Funny Yoga Quotes 1. Yoga. Because punching people is frowned upon. 2. Some days you eat salads and go do yoga, some days you eat cupcakes and refuse to put on pants. It’s called balance. 3. The moon made me do it 4. First I do the yoga, then I do the things 5. Rise and shine, flow and align, poetry is hard, yoga 6. Drop and give me zen 7. Let’s get it om 8. Namaslay all damn day Yoga Inspirational Quotes 9. Yoga is not about touching your toes. It is what you learn on the way down. -Jigar Gor 10. Yoga is the journey of the self, through the self, to the self. -The Bhagavad Gita 11. The body is your temple. Keep it pure and clean for the soul to reside in. -B.K.S. Iyengar 12. Yoga does not just change the way we see things, it transforms the person who sees. B.K.S. Iyengar 13. A flower does not think of competing to the flower next to it. It just blooms. 14. Feel good, be good, and do good. -Yogi Bhajan 15. The best thing you could do is master the chaos in you. You are not thrown into the fire, you are the fire. -ama Indigo 16. Put your heart, mind, intellect and soul even into your smallest acts. This is the secret of success. -Swami Sivananda 17. The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.–Lao Tzu Yoga Quotes About Love 18. If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete. -Jack Kornfield 19. Don’t move the way fear makes you move. Move the way love makes you move. Move the way joy makes you move. -Osho 20. Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built. -Rumi 21. Our stresses, anxieties, pains, and problems arise because we do not see the world, others, or even ourselves as worthy of love. -Prem Prakash 22. Your soul is your best friend. Treat it with care, nurture it with growth, feed it with love. -Ashourina Yalda 23. 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 24. 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 25. 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. -T.K.V. Desikacha Yoga Quotes About Balance 26. Calming the mind is yoga. Not just standing on the head. -Swami Satchidananda 27. Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder. -Rumi 28. There is a crack, a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in. -Leonard Cohen 29. Blessed are the flexible, for they shall not be bent out of shape. 30. Yoga is the practice of quieting the mind. -Patanjali 31. 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 32. 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. -Geeta Iyengar 33. Yoga is a light, which once lit, will never dim. The better your practice, the brighter the flame. -B.K.S. lyengar 34. Silence is not silent. Silence speaks. It speaks most eloquently. Silence is not still. Silence leads. It leads most perfectly. -Sri Chinmoy 35. The ultimate essence of yoga is the contact and the union between the individual consciousness and the divine consciousness. -Raphael 36. That which we call the Hindu religion is really the Eternal religion because it embraces all others. -Sri Aurobindo YOGA QUOTES ON HAPPINESS 37. The soul is here for its own joy. -Rumi 38. Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony. -Mahatma Gandhi 39. Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared. -Buddha 40. True happiness is when the love that is within us finds expression in external activities. -Ammachi 41. He is shining, everything shines through him. -Bhagavad Gita 42. Yoga is a way to freedom. By its constant practice, we can free ourselves from fear, anguish and loneliness. -Indra Devi 43. Let your practice be a celebration of life. -Seido Lee deBarros 44. Yoga is the golden key that unlocks the door to peace, tranquility, and joy. -B. K. S. Iyengar 45. Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom. -Viktor E. Frankl 46. The rhythm of the body, the melody of the mind & the harmony of the soul create the symphony of life. -B.K.S. Iyengar 47. The future depends on what we do in the present. -Mahatma Gandhi 48. I close my eyes in order to see. -Paul Gauguin BREATH YOGA QUOTES 49. For breath is life, so if you breathe well you will live long on earth. -Sanskrit Proverb 50. Breath is life. We should pay as much attention to it as any other aspect of beingness. -Swami Nostradamus Virato 51. The quality of our breath expresses our inner feelings. -T.K.V. Desikachar 52. Master your breath, let the self be in bliss, contemplate on the sublime within you. -T. Krishnamacharya 53. Regulate the breathing, and thereby control the mind. -B.K.S. Iyengar 54. Breathing in, I calm body and mind. Breathing out, I smile. Dwelling in the present moment, I know this is the only moment. -Thich Nhat Hanh 55. Without full awareness of breathing, there can be no development of meditative stability and understanding. -Thich Nhat Hanh INNER PEACE QUOTES 56. 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. -Yoga Sutras 57. When you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others. -Peace Pilgrim 58. Yoga believes in transforming the individual before transforming the world. -Swami Satchidananda 59. Do not feel lonely. The entire universe is inside of you. -Rumi 60. Yoga allows you to find an inner peace that is not ruffled and riled by the endless stresses and struggles of life. -B.K.S. Iyengar 61. No one is wise by birth, for wisdom results from one’s own efforts. -T. Krishnamacharya 62.Inner peace begins the moment you choose not to allow another person or event to control your emotions. -Pema Chodron 63. Self-observation is the first step of inner unfolding. – Amit Ray 64. Peace is our very nature, and yoga leads you to inner peace. -Sri Sri Ravi Shankar 65. REAL Peace is always unshakable… Bliss is unchanged by gain or loss. -Yogi Bhajan 66. 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 67. The study of asana is not about mastering posture. It’s about using posture to understand and transform yourself. -B.K.S. Iyengar YOGA QUOTES ABOUT GRATITUDE 68. Gratitude is an opener of locked-up blessings. -Marianne Williamson 69. There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. -Albert Einstein 70. If you only say one prayer in a day, make it thank you. -Rumi 71. The attitude of gratitude is the highest yoga. -Yogi Bhajan 72. But listen to me. For one moment quit being sad. Hear blessings dropping their blossoms around you. -Rumi 73. I was complaining that I had no shoes till I met a man who had no feet. -Confucius 74. It is through gratitude for the present moment that the spiritual dimension of life opens up. -Eckhart Tolle 75. Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet. -Thich Nhat Hanh 76. Make an attitude to be in gratitude, you will find the whole Universe will come to you. -Yogi Bhajan 77. There are always flowers for those who want to see them. -Henri Matisse YOGA QUOTES ABOUT STRENGTH 78. Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. -Lao Tzu 79. Yoga teaches us to cure what need not be endured and endure what cannot be cured. -B.K.S. Iyengar 80. This yoga should be practiced with firm determination and perseverance, without any mental reservation or doubts. -Bhagavad Gita 81. Rid your body of its impurities, let your speech be true and sweet, feel friendship for the world, and with humility seek wealth and knowledge. -T. Krishnamacharya 82. The world is the gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong. -Swami Vivekananda 83. Yoga is 99% practice and 1% theory. -Sri Krishna Pattabhi Jois YOGA QUOTES ABOUT LETTING GO 84. In the process of letting go you will lose many things from the past, but you will find yourself. -Deepak Chopra 85. Feelings are just visitors, let them come and go. -Mooji 86. In my experience, there is no past, there is no future. Everything simply is. -Sadghuru 87. Letting go gives us freedom, and freedom is the only condition for happiness. If, in our heart, we still cling to anything – anger, anxiety, or possessions – we cannot be free. -Thich Nhat Hanh 88. Impermanence is a principle of harmony. When we don’t struggle against it, we are in harmony with reality. -Pema Chodron 89. Letting go is the hardest asana. 90. When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be. -Lao Tzu 91. Whatever comes, don’t push it away. When it goes, do not grieve. -Mooji 92. Be at least as interested in what goes on inside you as what happens outside. If you get the inside right, the outside will fall into place. -Eckhart Tolle 93. Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true. -Swami Vivekananda 94. Yoga is a dance between control and surrender — between pushing and letting go — and when to push and to let go becomes part of the creative process, part of the open-ended exploration of your well-being. -Joel Kramer 95. You can only lose what you cling to. -Buddha 96. Bondage and liberation are of the mind alone. -Ramakrishna 97. Step into the fire of self-discovery. This fire will not burn you, it will only burn what you are not. -Mooji 98. Do not be proud of wealth, people, relations and friends, or youth. All these are snatched by time in the blink of an eye. Giving up this illusory world, know and attain the Supreme. -Adi Shankara 99. Why should you renounce everything? You are all right as you are, following the middle… -Ramakrishna 100. Yoga begins right where I am- not where I was yesterday or where I long to be. -Linda Sparrowe 101. We are awakened to the profound realization that the true path to liberation is to let go of everything. -Jack Kornfield 102. You cannot fix the past, but you can create a distance with it. That is how the yogic system approaches it. -Sadghuru 103. Once you begin to recognise the divine gifts in life, you come to see that there are so many. Your life is abundant. -Mooji 104. In 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 105. Surrender is not a weakness it is strength. It takes tremendous strength to surrender life to the supreme – to the cosmic unfolding. -Mooji 106. Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. -Ralph Marston Final Words FAQs References

Your yoga practice can seriously change your life and I don’t mean that in the pseudo-scientific way.

As you move through each yoga pose, you will be strengthening your body down to its core, in a way many other exercises simply cannot do.

You will also notice a shift in the way you nourish your body, opting for healthy meals that help you move through the yoga postures more easily.

Meditation is common at the beginning or end of a yoga class, which will inevitably calm your mind and ease your stress. With enough 5-minute meditation sessions, you’ll also strengthen your relaxation response in events that trigger the fight-or-flight response.

Basically, your yoga practice can make you a better human being, from the inside out.

Funny Yoga Quotes

1. Yoga. Because punching people is frowned upon.

106 Inspiring Yoga Quotes (Find One For Your Practice) (1)

2. Some days you eat salads and go do yoga, some days you eat cupcakes and refuse to put on pants. It’s called balance.

106 Inspiring Yoga Quotes (Find One For Your Practice) (2)

3. The moon made me do it

106 Inspiring Yoga Quotes (Find One For Your Practice) (3)

4. First I do the yoga, then I do the things

106 Inspiring Yoga Quotes (Find One For Your Practice) (4)

5. Rise and shine, flow and align, poetry is hard, yoga

106 Inspiring Yoga Quotes (Find One For Your Practice) (5)

6. Drop and give me zen

106 Inspiring Yoga Quotes (Find One For Your Practice) (6)

7. Let’s get it om

106 Inspiring Yoga Quotes (Find One For Your Practice) (7)

8. Namaslay all damn day

Yoga Inspirational Quotes

9. Yoga is not about touching your toes. It is what you learn on the way down. -Jigar Gor

10. Yoga is the journey of the self, through the self, to the self. -The Bhagavad Gita

11. The body is your temple. Keep it pure and clean for the soul to reside in. -B.K.S. Iyengar

12. Yoga does not just change the way we see things, it transforms the person who sees. B.K.S. Iyengar

13. A flower does not think of competing to the flower next to it. It just blooms.

14. Feel good, be good, and do good. -Yogi Bhajan

15. The best thing you could do is master the chaos in you. You are not thrown into the fire, you are the fire. -ama Indigo

16. Put your heart, mind, intellect and soul even into your smallest acts. This is the secret of success. -Swami Sivananda

17. The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.–Lao Tzu

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Yoga Quotes About Love

18. If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete. -Jack Kornfield

19. Don’t move the way fear makes you move. Move the way love makes you move. Move the way joy makes you move. -Osho

20. Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built. -Rumi

21. Our stresses, anxieties, pains, and problems arise because we do not see the world, others, or even ourselves as worthy of love. -Prem Prakash

22. Your soul is your best friend. Treat it with care, nurture it with growth, feed it with love. -Ashourina Yalda

23. 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

24. 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

25. 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. -T.K.V. Desikacha

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Yoga Quotes About Balance

26. Calming the mind is yoga. Not just standing on the head. -Swami Satchidananda

27. Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder. -Rumi

28. There is a crack, a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in. -Leonard Cohen

29. Blessed are the flexible, for they shall not be bent out of shape.

30. Yoga is the practice of quieting the mind. -Patanjali

31. 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

32. 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. -Geeta Iyengar

33. Yoga is a light, which once lit, will never dim. The better your practice, the brighter the flame. -B.K.S. lyengar

34. Silence is not silent. Silence speaks. It speaks most eloquently. Silence is not still. Silence leads. It leads most perfectly. -Sri Chinmoy

35. The ultimate essence of yoga is the contact and the union between the individual consciousness and the divine consciousness. -Raphael

36. That which we call the Hindu religion is really the Eternal religion because it embraces all others. -Sri Aurobindo

YOGA QUOTES ON HAPPINESS

37. The soul is here for its own joy. -Rumi

38. Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony. -Mahatma Gandhi

39. Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared. -Buddha

40. True happiness is when the love that is within us finds expression in external activities. -Ammachi

41. He is shining, everything shines through him. -Bhagavad Gita

42. Yoga is a way to freedom. By its constant practice, we can free ourselves from fear, anguish and loneliness. -Indra Devi

43. Let your practice be a celebration of life. -Seido Lee deBarros

44. Yoga is the golden key that unlocks the door to peace, tranquility, and joy. -B. K. S. Iyengar

45. Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom. -Viktor E. Frankl

46. The rhythm of the body, the melody of the mind & the harmony of the soul create the symphony of life. -B.K.S. Iyengar

47. The future depends on what we do in the present. -Mahatma Gandhi

48. I close my eyes in order to see. -Paul Gauguin

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BREATH YOGA QUOTES

49. For breath is life, so if you breathe well you will live long on earth. -Sanskrit Proverb

50. Breath is life. We should pay as much attention to it as any other aspect of beingness. -Swami Nostradamus Virato

51. The quality of our breath expresses our inner feelings. -T.K.V. Desikachar

52. Master your breath, let the self be in bliss, contemplate on the sublime within you. -T. Krishnamacharya

53. Regulate the breathing, and thereby control the mind. -B.K.S. Iyengar

54. Breathing in, I calm body and mind. Breathing out, I smile. Dwelling in the present moment, I know this is the only moment. -Thich Nhat Hanh

55. Without full awareness of breathing, there can be no development of meditative stability and understanding. -Thich Nhat Hanh

INNER PEACE QUOTES

56. 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. -Yoga Sutras

57. When you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others. -Peace Pilgrim

58. Yoga believes in transforming the individual before transforming the world. -Swami Satchidananda

59. Do not feel lonely. The entire universe is inside of you. -Rumi

60. Yoga allows you to find an inner peace that is not ruffled and riled by the endless stresses and struggles of life. -B.K.S. Iyengar

61. No one is wise by birth, for wisdom results from one’s own efforts. -T. Krishnamacharya

62.Inner peace begins the moment you choose not to allow another person or event to control your emotions. -Pema Chodron

63. Self-observation is the first step of inner unfolding. – Amit Ray

64. Peace is our very nature, and yoga leads you to inner peace. -Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

65. REAL Peace is always unshakable… Bliss is unchanged by gain or loss. -Yogi Bhajan

66. 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

67. The study of asana is not about mastering posture. It’s about using posture to understand and transform yourself. -B.K.S. Iyengar

YOGA QUOTES ABOUT GRATITUDE

68. Gratitude is an opener of locked-up blessings. -Marianne Williamson

69. There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. -Albert Einstein

70. If you only say one prayer in a day, make it thank you. -Rumi

71. The attitude of gratitude is the highest yoga. -Yogi Bhajan

72. But listen to me. For one moment quit being sad. Hear blessings dropping their blossoms around you. -Rumi

73. I was complaining that I had no shoes till I met a man who had no feet. -Confucius

74. It is through gratitude for the present moment that the spiritual dimension of life opens up. -Eckhart Tolle

75. Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet. -Thich Nhat Hanh

76. Make an attitude to be in gratitude, you will find the whole Universe will come to you. -Yogi Bhajan

77. There are always flowers for those who want to see them. -Henri Matisse

YOGA QUOTES ABOUT STRENGTH

78. Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. -Lao Tzu

79. Yoga teaches us to cure what need not be endured and endure what cannot be cured. -B.K.S. Iyengar

80. This yoga should be practiced with firm determination and perseverance, without any mental reservation or doubts. -Bhagavad Gita

81. Rid your body of its impurities, let your speech be true and sweet, feel friendship for the world, and with humility seek wealth and knowledge. -T. Krishnamacharya

82. The world is the gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong. -Swami Vivekananda

83. Yoga is 99% practice and 1% theory. -Sri Krishna Pattabhi Jois

YOGA QUOTES ABOUT LETTING GO

84. In the process of letting go you will lose many things from the past, but you will find yourself. -Deepak Chopra

85. Feelings are just visitors, let them come and go. -Mooji

86. In my experience, there is no past, there is no future. Everything simply is. -Sadghuru

87. Letting go gives us freedom, and freedom is the only condition for happiness. If, in our heart, we still cling to anything – anger, anxiety, or possessions – we cannot be free. -Thich Nhat Hanh

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88. Impermanence is a principle of harmony. When we don’t struggle against it, we are in harmony with reality. -Pema Chodron

89. Letting go is the hardest asana.

90. When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be. -Lao Tzu

91. Whatever comes, don’t push it away. When it goes, do not grieve. -Mooji

92. Be at least as interested in what goes on inside you as what happens outside. If you get the inside right, the outside will fall into place. -Eckhart Tolle

93. Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true. -Swami Vivekananda

94. Yoga is a dance between control and surrender — between pushing and letting go — and when to push and to let go becomes part of the creative process, part of the open-ended exploration of your well-being. -Joel Kramer

95. You can only lose what you cling to. -Buddha

96. Bondage and liberation are of the mind alone. -Ramakrishna

97. Step into the fire of self-discovery. This fire will not burn you, it will only burn what you are not. -Mooji

98. Do not be proud of wealth, people, relations and friends, or youth. All these are snatched by time in the blink of an eye. Giving up this illusory world, know and attain the Supreme. -Adi Shankara

99. Why should you renounce everything? You are all right as you are, following the middle… -Ramakrishna

100. Yoga begins right where I am- not where I was yesterday or where I long to be. -Linda Sparrowe

101. We are awakened to the profound realization that the true path to liberation is to let go of everything. -Jack Kornfield

102. You cannot fix the past, but you can create a distance with it. That is how the yogic system approaches it. -Sadghuru

103. Once you begin to recognise the divine gifts in life, you come to see that there are so many. Your life is abundant. -Mooji

104. In 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

105. Surrender is not a weakness it is strength. It takes tremendous strength to surrender life to the supreme – to the cosmic unfolding. -Mooji

106. Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. -Ralph Marston

Final Words

Reading the thoughts of another spiritual teacher can often bring clarity and perspective to your experience. That’s why the quotes and thoughts of wise people provide the perfect opportunity for you to re-examine your everyday life.

Re-examine your current spiritual practice and see in which ways you can improve your mind and soul. You can begin to notice mental patterns that maybe got in the way of a few relationships.

Because yoga isn’t all about bodily health, yoga postures, or a certain yoga teacher.

It’s about the whole thing, all of it. It’s about the body that moves you through the yoga postures but also the mind and soul and move within the body. It’s about the yoga teacher as well as the student, the practice of yoga and a spiritual practice.

It’s about happiness and well-being, from the inside outward.

Yoga quotes can really help you get there simply by shifting your perspective a bit.

So…

Which quote spoke to you most?

Share the quotes with your friends to get them into yoga and holistic wellbeing.

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106 Inspiring Yoga Quotes (Find One For Your Practice) (2024)

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106 Inspiring Yoga Quotes (Find One For Your Practice) (2024)

Funny Yoga Quotes

1. Yoga. Because punching people is frowned upon.

2. Some days you eat salads and go do yoga, some days you eat cupcakes and refuse to put on pants. It’s called balance.

3. The moon made me do it

4. First I do the yoga, then I do the things

5. Rise and shine, flow and align, poetry is hard, yoga

6. Drop and give me zen

7. Let’s get it om

8. Namaslay all damn day

Yoga Inspirational Quotes

9. Yoga is not about touching your toes. It is what you learn on the way down. -Jigar Gor

10. Yoga is the journey of the self, through the self, to the self. -The Bhagavad Gita

11. The body is your temple. Keep it pure and clean for the soul to reside in. -B.K.S. Iyengar

12. ​Yoga does not just change the way we see things, it transforms the person who sees. B.K.S. Iyengar

13. A flower does not think of competing to the flower next to it. It just blooms.

14. Feel good, be good, and do good. -Yogi Bhajan

15. The best thing you could do is master the chaos in you. You are not thrown into the fire, you are the fire. -ama Indigo

16. Put your heart, mind, intellect and soul even into your smallest acts. This is the secret of success. -Swami Sivananda

17. ​The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.–Lao Tzu

Yoga Quotes About Love

18. If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete. -Jack Kornfield

19. Don’t move the way fear makes you move. Move the way love makes you move. Move the way joy makes you move. -Osho

20. Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built. -Rumi

21. Our stresses, anxieties, pains, and problems arise because we do not see the world, others, or even ourselves as worthy of love. -Prem Prakash

22. Your soul is your best friend. Treat it with care, nurture it with growth, feed it with love. -Ashourina Yalda

23. 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

24. 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

25. 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. -T.K.V. Desikacha

Yoga Quotes About Balance

26. Calming the mind is yoga. Not just standing on the head. -Swami Satchidananda

27. Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder. -Rumi

28. There is a crack, a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in. -Leonard Cohen

29. Blessed are the flexible, for they shall not be bent out of shape.​​​​​

30. Yoga is the practice of quieting the mind. -Patanjali

31. 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

32. 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. -Geeta Iyengar

33. Yoga is a light, which once lit, will never dim. The better your practice, the brighter the flame. -B.K.S. lyengar

34. Silence is not silent. Silence speaks. It speaks most eloquently. Silence is not still. Silence leads. It leads most perfectly. -Sri Chinmoy

35. The ultimate essence of yoga is the contact and the union between the individual consciousness and the divine consciousness. -Raphael

36. That which we call the Hindu religion is really the Eternal religion because it embraces all others. -Sri Aurobindo

YOGA QUOTES ON HAPPINESS

37. The soul is here for its own joy. -Rumi

38. Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony. -Mahatma Gandhi

39. Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared. -Buddha

40. True happiness is when the love that is within us finds expression in external activities. -Ammachi

41. He is shining, everything shines through him. -Bhagavad Gita

42. Yoga is a way to freedom. By its constant practice, we can free ourselves from fear, anguish and loneliness. -Indra Devi

43. Let your practice be a celebration of life. -Seido Lee deBarros

44. Yoga is the golden key that unlocks the door to peace, tranquility, and joy. -B. K. S. Iyengar

45. Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom. -Viktor E. Frankl

46. The rhythm of the body, the melody of the mind & the harmony of the soul create the symphony of life. -B.K.S. Iyengar

47. The future depends on what we do in the present. -Mahatma Gandhi

48. I close my eyes in order to see. -Paul Gauguin

BREATH YOGA QUOTES

49. For breath is life, so if you breathe well you will live long on earth. -Sanskrit Proverb

50. Breath is life. We should pay as much attention to it as any other aspect of beingness. -Swami Nostradamus Virato

51. The quality of our breath expresses our inner feelings. -T.K.V. Desikachar

52. Master your breath, let the self be in bliss, contemplate on the sublime within you. -T. Krishnamacharya

53. Regulate the breathing, and thereby control the mind. -B.K.S. Iyengar

54. Breathing in, I calm body and mind. Breathing out, I smile. Dwelling in the present moment, I know this is the only moment. -Thich Nhat Hanh

55. Without full awareness of breathing, there can be no development of meditative stability and understanding. -Thich Nhat Hanh

INNER PEACE QUOTES

56. 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. -Yoga Sutras

57. When you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others. -Peace Pilgrim

58. Yoga believes in transforming the individual before transforming the world. -Swami Satchidananda

59. Do not feel lonely. The entire universe is inside of you. -Rumi

60. Yoga allows you to find an inner peace that is not ruffled and riled by the endless stresses and struggles of life. -B.K.S. Iyengar

61. No one is wise by birth, for wisdom results from one’s own efforts. -T. Krishnamacharya

62.Inner peace begins the moment you choose not to allow another person or event to control your emotions. -Pema Chodron

63. Self-observation is the first step of inner unfolding. – Amit Ray

64. Peace is our very nature, and yoga leads you to inner peace. -Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

65. REAL Peace is always unshakable… Bliss is unchanged by gain or loss. -Yogi Bhajan

66. 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

67. The study of asana is not about mastering posture. It’s about using posture to understand and transform yourself. -B.K.S. Iyengar

YOGA QUOTES ABOUT GRATITUDE

68. Gratitude is an opener of locked-up blessings. -Marianne Williamson

69. There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. -Albert Einstein

70. If you only say one prayer in a day, make it thank you. -Rumi

71. The attitude of gratitude is the highest yoga. -Yogi Bhajan

12. Yoga does not just change the way we see things, it transforms the person who sees. B.K.S. Iyengar

17. The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.–Lao Tzu

29. Blessed are the flexible, for they shall not be bent out of shape.