Yoga And Life Quotes:

Yoga is the practice of quieting the mind.

- Patanjali

topic: Success, Yoga, Practice, Meditation And Yoga, Inspirational Yoga

The success of Yoga does not lie in the ability to perform postures but in how it positively changes the way we live our life and our relationships.

- T. K. V. Desikachar

topic: Relationship, Positive, Life Changing, Positive Change, Good Posture

The wound is the place where the Light enters you.

- Rumi

topic: Inspirational, Life, Broken Heart, Inspirational Sufi, Sufi Love

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.

- Gautama Buddha

topic: Wisdom, Yoga, Ignorance, Meditation And Yoga, Meditation Life

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.

- Laozi

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Time To Move On, Discovering Yourself

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

topic: Flower, Yoga, Yield, Inspirational Yoga, Mind Body

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

topic: Yoga, Exercise, May, Inspirational Yoga, Inspiring Yoga

Yoga is like music: the rhythm of the body, the melody of the mind, and the harmony of the soul create the symphony of life.

- B.K.S. Iyengar

source: B.K.S. Iyengar (2006). “Astadala Yogamala (Collected Works), Volume 6”, p.129, Allied Publishers

topic: Inspiring, Yoga, Symphony, Inspirational Body, Meditation And Yoga

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

- Wayne Dyer

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Inspirational Yoga, Personal Improvement

The most important pieces of equipment you need for doing yoga are your body and your mind.

- Rodney Yee

topic: Success, Yoga, Mind, Meditation And Yoga, Inspiring Yoga

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

- B.K.S. Iyengar

topic: Inspiring, Yoga, Giving, Inhale, Inspiring Yoga

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

- B.K.S. Iyengar

topic: Yoga, Needs, Cures, Inspirational Body, Meditation And Yoga

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

topic: Yoga, Soul, Mind, Mind Body And Soul, Vipassana

Change is not something that we should fear. Rather, it is something that we should welcome. For without change, nothing in this world would ever grow or blossom, and no one in this world would ever move forward to become the person they're meant to be.

- B.K.S. Iyengar

topic: Moving, World, Welcome, Inspiring Yoga, Yoga And Life

Yoga does not remove us from the reality or responsibilities of everyday life but rather places our feet firmly and resolutely in the practical ground of experience. We don't transcend our lives; we return to the life we left behind in the hopes of something better.

- Donna Farhi

topic: Yoga, Responsibility, Reality, Transcending, Inspirational Yoga

In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

- Abraham Lincoln

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Life Wisdom, Live Life To Its Fullest

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

- Donna Farhi

source: Donna Farhi (2011). “Yoga Mind, Body & Spirit: A Return to Wholeness”, p.17, Macmillan

topic: Maps, Asana, Territory, Yoga And Life

The gift of learning to meditate is the greatest gift you can give yourself in this life. For it is only through meditation that you can undertake the journey to discover your true nature, and so find the stability and confidence you will need to live, and die, well; Meditation is the road to enlightenment.

- Sogyal Rinpoche

source: FaceBook post by Sogyal Rinpoche from Jun 04, 2013

topic: Journey, Giving, Meditation, Meditation Life, Inspirational Meditation

If you can get the inside right, the outside will fall into place.

- Eckhart Tolle

topic: Business, Fall, Fall Into Place, Power Of Now, Power Of Now Book

Don't move the way fear makes you move. Move the way love makes you move. Move the way joy makes you move.

- Rajneesh

topic: Inspiring, Moving, Yoga, Meditation And Yoga, Inspirational Yoga

The pose begins when you want to leave it.

- B.K.S. Iyengar

topic: Want, Inspirational Yoga, Yoga And Life, Yoga Practice, Hatha Yoga

If you want to find God, hang out in the space between your thoughts.

- Alan Cohen

topic: Yoga, Space, Want, Space Between, Meditation Life

Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment.

- Alan Watts

topic: Life, Discovery, Meditation, Meditation And Yoga, Meditation Life

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

topic: Yoga, Self, Perfect, Inspirational Yoga, Inspiring Yoga

Whatever you do in life, yoga shows you how to do it better.

- Chuck Miller

topic: Yoga, Shows, Yoga And Life

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

- Gautama Buddha

topic: Confidence, Yoga, Lamps, Yoga And Life, Yoga Inspiration

Move, but don't move the way fear makes you move.

- Rumi

topic: Moving, Way, Meditation And Yoga, Inspirational Yoga, Inspiring Yoga

Giving to others is the greatest gift you can give yourself.

- Darren Hardy

source: "The Pursuit of Happiness". Interview with Darren Hardy, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 17, 2014.

topic: Yoga, Meditation Practice, Giving, Meditation And Yoga, Meditation Life

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

topic: Attitude, Yoga, Skills, Inspirational Yoga, Inspiring Yoga

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

topic: Inspiration, People, Envy, Inspirational Meditation, Inspirational Yoga

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.

- Eckhart Tolle

topic: Yoga, Fall, Goes On, Power Of Now, Power Of Now Book

Action is movement with intelligence

- B.K.S. Iyengar

topic: Movement, Action, Inspiring Yoga, Yoga And Life