Yoga Quotes

Yoga is the only exercise on this planet from which you gain energy instead of burning energy.

Many exercise forms - aerobic, yoga, weights, walking and more - have been shown to benefit mood.

I have always worked out, and I've gone through different phases of yoga, but the combination of Pilates three days a week with yoga is incredible.

As I began to love myself I found that anguish and emotional suffering are only warning signs that I was living against my own truth. Today, I know, this is "AUTHENTICITY".

Yoga aims to remove the root cause of all diseases, not to treat its symptoms as medical science generally attempts to do.

I love yoga because not only is it a workout for your body, but also your breathing, which helps release a lot of stress. It really prepares you for the day.

If you open your heart and become like a child, you will always be blissful, always content.

Yoga is a technology for arriving in this present moment. It is a means of waking up from our spiritual amnesia, so that we can remember all that we already know.

Let's face it, I only practice yoga because the classes are always packed with beautiful women.

Being spiritual does not mean being dead serious. If you allow life to happen within you exuberantly, unbridled, you will touch the spirit.

The asanas are useful maps to explore yourself, but they are not the territory.

Yoga is the stilling of the fluctuations of the mind.

Without inner peace, outer peace is impossible.

At any moment, you have a choice, that either leads you closer to your spirit or further away from it.

It is important not to abandon the practice of yoga because we believe it is driven by the wrong motivation. The practice of yoga itself transforms. Yoga has a magical quality.

Whatever you have to have, try to have something which is handmade.

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

Yoga is the study of the functioning of the body, the mind and the intellect in the process of attaining freedom.

Yoga doesn't ask you to be more than you are. But it does ask you to be all that you are.

There is no exception to the rule that every rule has an exception.

We are on this earth to become the Spirit, to be a channel of God's love and above all, to enter into the Kingdom of God.

Truth is one, paths are many.

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.

As long as you have certain desires about how it ought to be you can't see how it is.

Our compassion and acts of selflessness take us to the deeper truths.

When you practice yoga, first your personality changes, the faith increases, then confidence improves

There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.

Diseases of the soul are more dangerous and more numerous than those of the body.

I've done archery for about six weeks, and rock climbing, tree climbing - and combat, running and vaulting. But also yoga and things like that, to stay catlike!

Yoga is a mirror to look at ourselves from within.

Silence is not silent. Silence speaks. It speaks most eloquently. Silence is not still. Silence leads. It leads most perfectly.

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.

Mastery of yoga is really measured by how it influences our day-to-day living, how it enhances our relationships, how it promotes clarity and peace of mind.

Anybody can breathe. Therefore anybody can practice yoga.

Don't worry. These poses have nothing to do with meditation or enlightenment.

Through meditation and by giving full attention to one thing at a time, we can learn to direct attention where we choose.

Food affects the mind. For the practice of any kind of yoga, vegetarianism is absolutely necessary since it makes the mind more pure and harmonious.

How Do I Listen to others? As if everyone were my Master Speaking to me His Cherished Last Words.

When you inhale, you are taking the strength from God. When you exhale, it represents the service you are giving to the world.

A house is a home when it shelters the body and comforts the soul.

As soon as a person starts thinking, 'I want to be a better person,' that is the start of Yoga.

There is no doubt that the foundation of being a great yoga teacher is being a great yoga student.

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.

The quality of our breath expresses our inner feelings.

There is no chiropractic treatment, no Yoga exercise, no hour of meditation in a music-throbbing chapel, that will leave you emptier of bad thoughts than this homely ceremony of making bread.

Be a lamp to yourself. Be your own confidence. Hold on to the truth within yourself as to the only truth.

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.

The meaning of yoga is connection of mind, body and spirit. If you have a bad telecommunication system, your body gets sick. Yoga helps fix that.

This world is your body. This world is a great school, This world is your silent teacher.

Yoga is a generic name for any discipline by which one attempts to pass out of the limits of one's ordinary mental consciousness into a greater spiritual consciousness.