Inspirational Yoga Quotes

Yoga is as much about mindfulness and good mental health as it is about physical fitness. Here we share with you some of our favourite yoga quotes.

“The body benefits from movement, and the mind benefits from stillness.”

“Yoga is the journey of the self, through the self, to the self.”

“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.”

“When you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others.”

“A flower does not think of competing to the flower next to it. It just blooms.”

“Yoga begins right where I am – not where I was yesterday or where I long to be.”

“Be where you are, not where you think you should be.”

“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.”

“It is not arrogant or egotistical to feel good inside. You had nothing to do with it. It’s simply the honest response to clearly perceived reality.”

“The longest journey of any person is the journey inward.”

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

“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.”

“I close my eyes in order to see.”

“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.”

“Yoga is the perfect opportunity to be curious about who you are.”

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

“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.”

“A photographer gets people to pose for him. A yoga instructor gets people to pose for themselves.”

“One of the fundamental principles of yoga: a small action done repeatedly can make an enormous difference.”

“That’s exactly how it is in yoga. The places where you have the most resistance are actually the places that are going to be the areas of the greatest liberation.”

“The reward for doing yoga well is simple—you get to do a better job at living a fulfilling life.”