Ready to get your namaste’ on, but are needing a little push? These 40 yoga quotes will inspire you to get off the couch and on the mat!
Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest we take between two deep breaths. – Etty Hittlesum
If you seek peace, be still. If you seek wisdom, be silent. If you seek love, be yourself. – Becca Lee
When you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others. – Peace Pilgrim
Yoga begins right where I am – not where I was yesterday or where I long to be. – Linda Sparrowe
Don’t move the way fear makes you move. Move the way love makes you move. Move the way joy makes you move. – Osho
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
You are the sky, everything else is just the weather. – Pema Chodron
Yoga is not a work-out, it is a work-in. And this is the point of spiritual practice; to make us teachable; to open up our hearts and focus our awareness so that we can know what we already know and be who we already are. – Rolf Gates
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
Yoga is a light that once lit will never dim, the better your practice the brighter your flame. – B.K.S. Iyengar
If you choose to see everything as a miracle, then where you are right now is perfect. There is nowhere to run to; there is nothing else to do except be in this moment and allow what is to be. From that place of radical acceptance, major change can happen. The first step in any transformational experience is acceptance and surrender to the present moment, the way that it is. From that place we have the awareness, humility and power to change what is. – Mastin Kipp
Wisdom is knowing we are all One. Love is what it feels like and Compassion is what it acts like. – Ethan Walker III
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
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
In meditation and in our daily lives there are three qualities that we can nurture, cultivate, and bring out. We already possess these, but they can be ripened: precision, gentleness, and the ability to let go. – Pema Chodron
Inner peace begins the moment you choose not to allow another person or event to control your emotions. – Pema Chodron
Your soul is your best friend. Treat it with care, nurture it with growth, feed it with love. – Ashourina Yalda
The body benefits from movement, and the mind benefits from stillness. – Sakyong Mipham
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. – Lao Tzu
Be a lamp to yourself. Be your own confidence. Hold on to the truth within yourself as to the only truth. – Buddha
For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it. For every truth there is an ear somewhere to hear it. For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it. – Ivan Panin
There will always be people who can do it better than you, but that’s a good thing! Start to see competition as inspiration — without envy. – Kathryn Budig
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
What you think, you become. – Buddha
Once you’re in touch with the life force around us, it’s natural to want to help keep it around. – Adi Carter
Yoga is the journey of the self, through the self, to the self. – The Bhagavad Gita
Yoga is a dance between control and surrender – between pushing and letting go – and when to push and when to let go becomes part of the creative process, part of the open-ended exploration of your being. – Joel Kramer
Each of us is a lake of love, yet strangely enough, we are all thirsty. – Swami Kripalu
Yoga is the perfect opportunity to be curious about who you are. – Jason Crandell
The soul is here for its own joy. – Rumi
The best thing you could do is master the chaos in you. You are not thrown into the fire, you are the fire. – Mama Indigo
The very heart of yoga practice is abhyasa – steady effort in the direction you want to go. – Sally Kempton
Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing. – Mother Teresa
Close your eyes and imagine the best version of you possible. That’s who you really are. Let go of any part of you that doesn’t believe it. – C. Assaad
Go from a human being doing yoga to a human being yoga. – Baron Baptiste
Remember, it doesn’t matter how deep into a posture you go. What does matter is who you are when you get there. – Max Storm
Yoga is not about touching your toes, it’s about what you learn on the way down. – Jigar Gor
Yoga does not change the way we see things, it transforms the person who sees. – B.K.S Iyengar
Live life as if everything is rigged in your favour. – Rumi
Meditation is a way for nourishing and blossoming the divinity within you. – Amit Ray
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