Inspirational Yoga Quotes

• Healthy plants and trees yield abundant flowers and fruits. Similarly, from a healthy person, smiles and happiness shine forth like the rays of the sun.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Flower, Yoga, Yield

  B.K.S. Iyengar (2006). “Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom”, p.24, Rodale

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• Meditation is a way for nourishing and blossoming the divinity within you.

  Amit Ray

  Yoga, Meditation Practice, Divinity

  "Meditation: Insights and Inspiration". Book by Amit Ray, July 4, 2010.

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• 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

  Success, Yoga, Exercise

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• Yoga teaches us to cure what need not be endured and endure what cannot be cured.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Inspiring, Success, Yoga

  BKS Iyengar (2015). “Yoga For Sports: A Journey towards Health and Healing”, p.106, Westland

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• Yoga is the practice of quieting the mind.

  Patanjali

  Success, Yoga, Practice

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• I cannot always control what goes on outside. But I can always control what goes on inside.

  Wayne Dyer

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  FaceBook post by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer from Mar 17, 2011

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• You are only as young as your spine is flexible.

  Joseph Pilates

  Yoga, Asana, Spine

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• Yoga is almost like music in a way; there's no end to it.

  Sting

  Success, Yoga, Way

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• 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.

  Patanjali

  Yoga, Compassion, Meditation

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• It is through the alignment of the body that I discovered the alignment of my mind, self, and intelligence.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Life, Inspiring, Yoga

  B.K.S. Iyengar (2006). “Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom”, p.8, Rodale

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• 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

  Yoga, Practice, Meditation

  Ravi Ravindra (2009). “The Wisdom of Patañjali's Yoga Sutras: A New Translation and Guide”

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• Yoga is really trying to liberate us from ... shame about our bodies. To love your body is a very important thing - I think the health of your mind depends on your being able to love your body.

  Rodney Yee

  Success, Yoga, Love You

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• A lot of exercise is mindless; you can have music or the radio on and not be aware. But if you're aware in anything you do - and it doesn't have to be yoga - it changes you. Being present changes you.

  Mariel Hemingway

  Success, Yoga, Exercise

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• 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

  Yoga, Body, Artistic

  Geeta S. Iyengar (1998). “Yoga: A Gem for Women”, p.71, Allied Publishers

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• Crying is one of the highest devotional songs. One who knows crying, knows spiritual practice. If you can cry with a pure heart, nothing else compares to such a prayer, Crying includes all the principles of Yoga.

  Kripalvananda

  Depression, Spiritual, Song

  "The Little Red Book of Yoga Wisdom" edited by Kelsie Besaw, (p. 23), January 2, 2014.

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• 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

  Song, Lying, Yoga

  Amit Ray (2010). “Meditation: Insights and Inspiration”, p.110, INNER LIGHT PUBLISHERS

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• 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

  Success, Mother, Teacher

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• 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.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Yoga, Self, Perfect

  "The Energetic Anatomy of a Yogi: Healing the Emotional and Mental Body Through Yoga". Book by Paul G. Balch, Jaylee Balch, p. 23, 2013.

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• Yoga is the art work of awareness on the canvas of mind,body and the soul.

  Amit Ray

  Art, Yoga, Soul

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• Yoga is a science, and not a vague dreamy drifting or imagining. It is an applied science, a systematized collection of laws applied to bring about a definite end. It takes up the laws of psychology, applicable to the unfolding of the whole consciousness of man on every plane, in every world, and applies those rationally in a particular case. This rational application of the laws of unfolding consciousness acts exactly on the same principles that you see applied around you every day in other departments of science.

  Annie Besant

  Success, Yoga, Men

  Annie Besant (2017). “The Nature and Practice of Yoga”, BookRix

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• Watch your thoughts, they become words. Watch your words, they become your actions. Watch your actions, they become habits. Watch your habits, they become character. Watch your character, it becomes your destiny.

  Frank Jackson

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• 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

  Success, Attitude, Yoga

  "The Energetic Anatomy of a Yogi: Healing the Emotional and Mental Body Through Yoga". Book by Paul G. Balch, Jaylee Balch, p. 23, 2013.

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• In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they are not.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• I was in yoga the other day. I was in full lotus position. My chakras were all aligned. My mind is cleared of all clatter and I'm looking out of my third eye and everything that I'm supposed to be doing. It's amazing what comes up, when you sit in that silence. "Mama keeps whites bright like the sunlight, Mama's got the magic of Clorox 2."

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Success, Yoga, Eye

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• 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

  Success, Powerful, Yoga

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