Yoga Quotes

• Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Positive, Happiness

  "Humor, Play, & Laughter : Stress-proofing Life with Your Kids" by Joseph A. Michelli, (p. 88), 1998.

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• Yoga is the golden key that unlocks the door to peace, tranquility and joy.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Inspiring, Keys, Doors

  B.K.S Iyengar (2001). “Astadala Yogamala Volume-3”, p.32, Allied Publishers

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  I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Mar 15, 2014

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• Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.

  Jim Rohn

  Life, Motivational, Inspiring

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Jul 30, 2016

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• This practice of yoga is to remove the weeds from the body so that the garden can grow.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Weed, Garden, Practice

  B.K.S. Iyengar (2006). “Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom”, p.41, Rodale

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• Exercises are like prose, whereas yoga is the poetry of movements.

  Amit Ray

  Exercise, Movement, Prose

  "Yoga and Vipassana: An Integrated Life Style". Book by Amit Ray, 2012.

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• Health is wealth. Peace of mind is happiness. Yoga shows the way.

  Vishnudevananda Saraswati

  Mind, Way, Wealth

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• Yoga is a light, which once lit, will never dim. The better your practice, the brighter the flame.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Motivational, Inspiring, Success

  B.K.S. Iyengar (2014). “BKS Iyengar Yoga The Path to Holistic Health”, p.35, Dorling Kindersley Ltd

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• The body is your temple. Keep it pure and clean for the soul to reside in.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Success, Spiritual, Wisdom

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• I do hot yoga. I try to keep one hour a day where I have space to reflect and meditate and take care of me and what is going on inside. This way, I can be a better person to be around.

  Patricia Velasquez

  Space, Trying, Hot

  "Patricia Velasquez – Supermodel, Actor and Author". Interview with Monica Melsness, nicheandnook.com. October 3, 2015.

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

  Indra Devi

  Freedom, Fear, Loneliness

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• If you want to be sad, no one in the world can make you happy. But if you make up your mind to be happy, no one and nothing on earth can take that happiness from you.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Positive, Happiness, Sad

  Paramahansa Yogananda (1990). “The Essence of Self-Realization: The Wisdom of Paramhansa Yogananda”, Crystal Clarity Pubs

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• Master your breath, let the self be in bliss, contemplate on the sublime within you.

  Tirumalai Krishnamacharya

  Self, Sublime, Bliss

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• 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

  Writing, Exercise, Meditation

  "Yoga and Vipassana: An Integrated Life Style". Book by Amit Ray, May 29, 2012.

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• Happiness is a state of inner fulfillment, not the gratification of inexhaustible desires for outward things.

  Matthieu Ricard

  Happiness, Desire, Wellness

  Matthieu Ricard (2011). “The Art of Happiness: A Guide to Developing Life's Most Important Skill”, p.32, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Yoga is not a religion. It is a science, science of well-being, science of youthfulness, science of integrating body, mind, and soul.

  Amit Ray

  Meditation, Soul, Mind

  "Yoga and Vipassana: An Integrated Life Style". Book by Amit Ray, May 29, 2012.

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• Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Positive, Happiness

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• Yoga is not a means to get SOMEWHERE as if you were not SOMEWHERE already. It is your direct and intimate participation with Life.

  Mark Whitwell

  Mean, Intimate, Participation

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• No one is wise by birth, for wisdom results from one own's efforts.

  Tirumalai Krishnamacharya

  Motivational, Wise, Effort

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• Accepting means you allow yourself to feel whatever it is you are feeling at that moment. It is part of the isness of the Now. You can't argue with what is. Well, you can, but if you do, you suffer.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Mean, Feelings, Suffering

  "A New Earth". Book by Eckhart Tolle, 2005.

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• 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

  Happiness, Peace, Freedom

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• The true purpose of yoga is to discover that aspect of your being that can never be lost.

  Deepak Chopra

  Purpose, Lost, Aspect

  Deepak Chopra, M.D. (2012). “AARP The Seven Spiritual Laws of Yoga: A Practical Guide to Healing Body, Mind, and Spirit”, p.45, John Wiley & Sons

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• 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.

  Rumi

  Wisdom, Stars, Book

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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, Health

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

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

  Rumi

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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