120 Motivational Yoga Quotes To Inspire Any Yogi
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- “Just Breathe”
- “Desire, ask, believe, receive.” ~ Stella Terrill Mann
- ”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
- “You are one yoga class away from a good mood” ~ Aloyoga
- “Happiness does not depend on what you have or what you are, it solely relies on what you think” ~ Buddha
- “Do what makes your soul happy”
- “Blessed are the flexible, for they shall not be bent out of shape.”
- “Letting go is the hardest Asana”
- “Desire, ask, believe, receive.” ~ Stella Terrill Mann
- “Expect nothing and appreciate everything”
- “Inhale, and God approaches you. Hold the inhalation, and God remains with you. Exhale, and you approach God. Hold the exhalation, and surrender to God.” ~ Krishnamacharya
- “The full ashtanga system practiced with devotion leads to freedom within one’s heart.” ~ Sri Krishna Pattabhi Jois
- “Yoga is like music. The rhythm of the body, the melody of the mind, and the harmony of the soul create the symphony of life.” ~ B.K.S Iyengar
- “The attitude of gratitude is the highest yoga.” ~ Yogi Bhajan
- “To conquer the unknown you must trust.” ~ Yogi Bhajan
- “When you are far away from reality, your fantasy won’t work.” ~ Yogi Bhajan
- “The world is the gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.” ~ Swami Vivekananda
- “For me, yoga is not just a workout – it’s about working on yourself.” ~ Mary Glover
- “Where there is love there is no question.” ~ Yogi Bhajan
- “Expect nothing and appreciate everything”
- “Practice and all is coming.” ~ Sri K. Pattabhi Jois
- “Yoga teaches us to cure what need not be endured and endure what cannot be cured.” ~ B.K.S. Iyengar
- “Aflower does not think of competing with the flower next to it, it just blooms”
- “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 peace of God is with them whose mind and soul are in harmony, who are free from desire and wrath, who know their own soul.” ~ Bhagavad Gita
- “Submit to a daily practice. Your loyalty to that is a ring at the door. Keep knocking, and eventually the joy inside will look out to see who is there.”
- “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
- “There is nothing outside of us. It’s all in us.” ~ Yogi Bhajan
- “Yoga is the perfect opportunity to be serious about who you are.” ~ Jason Crandell
- “ Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built.” ~ Rumi
- “First month paining, second month tired, third month flying.” ~ Sharath Jois
- “So please ask yourself, what would I do if I weren’t afraid? And then go and do it.” ~ Sheryl Sandburg
- “Reasons why I’m currently alive-Yoga, Coffee, Wine-But not necessarily in that order!”
- “Spirituality is not some external goal that one must seek, but a part of the divine core of each of us, which we must reveal.” ~ B.K.S Iyengar
- “The very heart of yoga practice is abhyasa – steady effort in the direction you want to go.” ~ Sally Kempton
- “Breathe through it, and release anything that does not serve you.”
- “You cannot do yoga. Yoga is your natural state. What you can do are yoga exercises, which may reveal to you where you are resisting your natural state.” ~ Sharon Gannon
- “If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?” ~ Rumi
- “An object is known or unknown dependent on whether or not the mind gets colored by it” ~ Patanjali-The Yoga Sutras
- ”In the darkness, I am light.”
- “Any belief, whatever it is, is counterproductive in the context of the practice of yoga. One holds a belief instead of knowing. For example, you wouldn’t say you believe in your right ear, since you know your ear, no belief is required. Believing always excludes knowing. When jnana (supreme knowledge) comes through the practice of yoga, you will know. Do not be satisfied with believing.” ~ Gregor Maehle
- “The union of nature and soul removes the veil of ignorance that covers our intelligence.” ~ B.K.S Iyengar
- “Yoga is 99% practice and 1% theory.” ~ Sri Krishna Pattabhi Jois
- “Everyone can do Ashtanga. Except lazy people.” Sharath Jois
- “It’s not life that matters, it’s the courage you bring to it.” ~ Yogi Bhajan
- “Hope is not a prediction of the future, it’s a declaration of what is possible.” ~ Yogi Bhajan
- “When you talk, you are only repeating what you already know, but if you listen, you may learn something new.” ~ Dalai Lama
- “Yoga takes you into the present moment, the only place where life exists.”
- “You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” ~ Gandhi
- “Remember the emphasis on the heart. The mind lives in doubt and the heart lives in trust. When you trust, suddenly you become centered.” ~ Osho
- “Body is not stiff. Mind is stiff.” ~ Sri Krishna Pattabhi Jois
- “Make an attitude to be in gratitude, you will find the whole Universe will come to you.” ~ Yogi Bhajan
- “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
- “Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.” ~ Rumi
- “If your presence doesn’t work, neither will your word.” ~ Yogi Bhajan
- ”The rhythm of the body, the melody of the mind & the harmony of the soul create the symphony of life.” ~ B.K.S. Iyengar
- “He shining, everything shines through him.” ~ Bhagavad Gita
- “When ego is lost, limit is lost. You become infinite, kind, beautiful.” ~ Yogi Bhajan
- “Only the minds born of meditation [the artificially created ones] are free from karmic impressions” ~ Patanjali-The Yoga Sutras
- “Let your practice be a celebration of life” ~ Seido lee deBarros
- “In stillness all conflict must end.” ~ Phillip Urso
- “Do not aim low, you will miss the mark. Aim high and you will be on a threshold of bliss.” ~ B.K.S. Iyengar
- “Be inspired but not proud.” ~ B.K.S Iyengar
- ”The rhythm of the body, the melody of the mind & the harmony of the soul create the symphony of life.” ~ B.K.S. Iyengar
- “The wisdom obtained in the higher states of consciousness is different from that obtained by inference and testimony as it refers to particulars.” ~ Yoga Sutra
- “No one who does good work will ever come to a bad end, either here or in the world to come.” ~ Bhagavad Gita
- “Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built.” ~ Rumi
- “The pose begins when you want to leave it.”
- “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
- “It would be a shame to lose the precious jewel of liberation in the mud of ignorant body building.” ~ Sri Krishna Pattabhi Jois
- “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.” ~ Terri Guillemets
- “In stillness all conflict must end.” ~ Phillip Urso
- “You cannot always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside.”
- “It is through your body that you realize you are a spark of divinity.” ~ B.K.S Iyengar
- “The art of happiness is to serve all, and all shall serve you.” ~ Yogi Bhajan
- “Have a kind heart, fierce mind and a brave spirit.” ~ Aloyoga
- “When we can remove the masks of our own making, then the one who has been longing to be seen sees itself unbounded, just as it is.”
- ”To perform every action artfully is yoga.” ~ Swami Kripalu
- “Yoga is the art work of awareness on the canvas of body, mind, and soul.” ~ Amit Ray
- “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
- ”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
- “The soul is here for its own joy.” ~ Rumi
- “Any action done with beauty and purity, and in complete harmony of body, mind and soul, is Art.” ~ B.K.S. Iyengar
- “Don’t forget to breathe!”
- “Stirum sukham asanam. Seated posture should be steady and comfortable.” ~ Yoga Sutra
- “This yoga should be practiced with firm determination and perseverance, without any mental reservation or doubts.” ~ Bhagavad Gita
- “Smiling is mouth yoga.” ~ Thich Nhat Hanh
- “The most important pieces of equipment you need for doing yoga are your body and your mind.” ~ Rodney Yee
- ”The more we sweat in peace the less we bleed in war.” ~ Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
- “Anyone who practices can obtain success in yoga but not one who is lazy. Constant practice alone is the secret of success.” ~ Svatmarama
- “Ignorance, egoism, attachment, hatred and clinging to bodily life are the five obstacles.” ~ Patanjali-The Yoga Sutras
- “A photographer gets people to pose for him. A yoga instructor gets people to pose for themselves.” ~ Jay Fields
- “Loka Samasta Sukhino Bhavantu. May all beings everywhere be happy and free and may the thoughts, words, and actions of my own life contribute in some way to that happiness and to that freedom for all.”
- “The body is your temple. Keep it pure and clean for the soul to reside in.” B.K.S. Iyengar
- “Make yourself so happy so that when others look at you they become happy too.” ~ Yogi Bhajan
- “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
- “Yoga, as a way of life and a philosophy, can be practiced by anyone with inclination to undertake it, for yoga belongs to humanity as a whole. It is not the property of any one group or any one individual, but can be followed by any and all, in any corner of the globe, regardless of class, creed or religion.” ~ Sri Krishna Pattabhi Jois
- “Creation is ready to serve you, if you just be you.” ~ Yogi Bhajan
- “There is only one reality, but there are many ways that reality can be interpreted.” ~ B.K.S. Iyengar
- “Yoga teaches us to cure what need not be endured and endure what cannot be cured.” ~ B.K.S. Iyengar
- “You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?” ~ Rumi
- “The wound is the place where the Light enters you.” ~ Rumi
- “One of the fundamental principles of yoga: a small action done repeatedly can make an enormous difference.” ~ Dr Timothy McCall
- “Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.” ~ Bhagavad Gita
- “It is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else’s life with perfection.” ~ Bhagavad Gita
- “Healing is the end of conflict with yourself” ~ Stephanie Gailing
- “Since the desire to live is eternal, impressions are also beginningless” ~ Patanjali-The Yoga Sutras
- “By cultivating attitudes of friendliness toward the happy, compassion for the unhappy, delight in the virtuous, and disregard toward the wicked, the mind-stuff retains its undisturbed calmness.” ~ Patanjali-The Yoga Sutras
- “Yoga is the stilling of the changing states of the mind.” ~ Patanjali-The Yoga Sutras
- “Life is so much simpler when you stop explaining yourself to people and just do what works for you”
- “Prayer without heart is a waste to time.” ~ Yogi Bhajan
- “The hardness of a diamond is part of its usefulness, but its true value is in the light that shines through it.” ~ B.K.S. Iyengar
- “Yoga is not just repetition of few postures – it is more about the exploration and discovery of the subtle energies of life.” ~ Amit Ray
- “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
- “Open your hands if you want to be held.” ~ Rumi
- “Today I will not stress over things I cannot control”