35 MOTIVERENDE YOGAQUOTES

1

Yoga is not about self-improvement, it’s about self-acceptance.

Gurmukh Kaur Khalsa

2

In truth, yoga doesn’t “take time”  it gives time.

Ganga White 

3

The practice of Yoga brings us face to face with the extraordinary complexity of our own being.

Sri Aurobindo

4

Yoga is not about touching your toes, it is what you learn on the way down.

Jigar Gor

5

Sun salutations can energize and warm you, even on the darkest, coldest winter day.

Carol Krucoff

6

You don’t have to be flexible to do yoga, you just have to be willing to shake the dust off and see what happens.

David Good

7

Mountain pose teaches us, literally, how to stand on our own two feet….

teaching us to root ourselves into the earth….

Our bodies become a connection between heaven and earth.

Carol Krucoff

8

Tree pose grows confidence. It roots me to this world.

Terri Guillemets

9

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 

10

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 Hanh 

11

Be a lamp to yourself. Be your own confidence. 

Hold on to the truth within yourself as to the only truth.

Buddha

12

When you find peace within yourself,

 you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others.

Peace Pilgrim 

13

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

14

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 

15

Do your practice and all is coming.

Sri K Patthabi Jois

16

It is health that is the real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.

Mahatma Gandhi

17

 Our bodies are our gardens—our wills are our gardeners.

Shakespeare

18

He who takes medicine and neglects to diet wastes the skill of his doctors.

Chinese Proverb

19

Nobody can hurt me without my permission.

Gandhi

20

The part can never be well unless the whole is well.

Plato

21

You only lose what you cling to.

Buddha

22

Do not ask for less responsibility to be free and relaxed—ask for more strength!

Shengyan

23

We don’t realize that, somewhere within us all,

there does exist a supreme self who is eternally at peace.

Eat, Pray Love

24

Meditation brings wisdom; lack of meditation leaves ignorance.

Know well what leads you forward and what holds you back,

and choose the path that leads to wisdom.

Buddha

25

Want to be happy? Just be yourself.

Author Unknown

26

The most important pieces of equipment you need for doing yoga

are your body and your mind.

Rodney Yee

27

Yoga is the fountain of youth. You’re only as young as your spine is flexible.

Bob Harper

28

Yoga is the practice of quieting the mind.

Patanjali

29

Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.

Hippocrates

30

Live, travel, adventure, bless and don’t be sorry.

Jack Kerouac

31

A mind free from all disturbances is Yoga.

Patanjali            

32

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

Author Unknown

33

The yoga pose that you avoid the most you need the most.

Author Unknown

34

My workout is my meditation.

Kyle MacLachlan

35

If there is any religion that could respond to the needs of modern science, it would be Buddhism.

Albert Einstein