In need of a little bit of yoga inspiration? Today I’m sharing 55 inspiring and interesting yoga quotes that I’ve found around the internet along with a few inspiring pictures you can save.
55 Inspiring Yoga Quotes
1. “When you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others.”
– Peace Pilgrim
2. “Yoga begins right where I am – not where I was yesterday or where I long to be.”
– Linda Sparrowe
3. “Yoga is a way to freedom. By its constant practice, we can free ourselves from fear, anguish, and loneliness.”
– Indra Devi
4. “Yoga makes me feel really sexy.”
– Alicia Silverstone
5. “I learned a few years ago that balance is the key to a happy and successful life, and a huge part of achieving that balance is to instill rituals into your everyday life – a nutritious balanced diet, daily exercise, time for yourself through meditation, reading, journaling, yoga, daily reflection, and setting goals.”
– Gretchen Bleiler
6. “When I’m under stress, I do yoga. It’s when I’m happiest that I have a problem with junk food.”
– Britney Spears
7. “At the end of my daily yoga routine, lying on the floor in Corpse Pose, I feel as though I am floating in a sea of pure love.”
– Mandy Ingber
8. “There is always room for change, but you have to be open to that change.”
– Kathryn Budig
9. “Yoga is equal parts strength, flexibility, balance, and endurance.”
– Mandy Ingber
10. “Red lipstick has been my beauty staple for years. I show up to Pilates or yoga at 8 A.M. wearing my red lipstick.”
– Liz Goldwyn
11. “Yoga teaches you how to listen to your body.”
– Mariel Hemingway
12. “Have I had therapy? I went to a yoga class once.”
– Dylan Moran
13. “Listen to your intuition, it’s on your side.”
– Unknown
14. “Any spirituality can be enhanced with the practice or study of yoga.”
– Christy Turlington
15. “In yoga, the key to staying youthful is a flexible spine.”
– Mandy Ingber
16. “Yoga is just good for you.”
– Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
17. “True meditation is about being fully present with everything that is–including discomfort and challenges. It is not an escape from life.”
– Craig Hamilton
18. Inhale the future. Exhale the past.
– Unknown
19. “Yoga is almost like music in a way; there’s no end to it.”
– Sting
20. “Yoga only works one way.”
– Bikram Choudhury
21. Yoga takes what you have and molds and sculpts it, which is a much more natural way to look and feel.
– Adam Levine
22. Meditation is hanging out with your soul.
– Unknown
23. “Yoga is not a religion. It is a science, science of well-being, the science of youthfulness, the science of integrating body, mind, and soul.”
– Amit Ray, Yoga and Vipassana: An Integrated Life Style
24. “Yoga is the artwork of awareness on the canvas of body, mind, and soul.”
– Amit Ray, Yoga and Vipassana: An Integrated Life Style
25. “A healer’s power stems not from any special ability, but from maintaining the courage and awareness to embody and express the universal healing power that every human being naturally possesses.”
– Eric Micha’el Leventhal
26. “There are many goals but one path – the path of compassion.”
– Amit Ray, Nonviolence: The Transforming Power
27. “When you listen to yourself, everything comes naturally. It comes from inside, like a kind of will to do something. Try to be sensitive. That is yoga.”
– Petri Räisänen
28. “Joy is found when you focus your energy on improving human dignity, human capacity, and human values.”
– Amit Ray, Yoga The Science of Well-Being
29. “Every soul innately yearns for stillness, for a space, a garden where we can till, sow, reap, and rest, and by doing so come to a deeper sense of self and our place in the universe. Silence is not an absence but a presence. Not an emptiness but repletion A filling up.”
– Anne LeClaire
30. “Exercises are like prose, whereas yoga is the poetry of movements.”
– Amit Ray, Yoga and Vipassana: An Integrated Life Style
31. “That’s why it’s called a practice. We have to practice a practice if it is to be of value.”
– Allan Lokos, Patience: The Art of Peaceful Living
32. “That’s why it’s called a practice. We have to practice a practice if it is to be of value.”
– Allan Lokos, Patience: The Art of Peaceful Living
33. “Yoga is not just repetition of few postures – it is more about the exploration and discovery of the subtle energies of life.”
– Amit Ray, Yoga and Vipassana: An Integrated Life Style
34. “Yoga will always be transformational, even when it stops being cool.”
– Victoria Moran
35. “Although yoga has its origins in ancient India, its methods and purposes are universal, relying not on cultural background, faith or deity, but simply on the individual. Yoga has become important in the lives of many contemporary Westerners, sometimes as a way of improving the health and fitness of the body, but also as a means of personal and spiritual development.”
– Tara Fraser, Yoga For You
36. “Yoga is the process of eliminating pain – pain forms the body, mind and the society.”
– Amit Ray, Yoga The Science of Well-Being
37. “When there are thoughts, it is a distraction: when there are no thoughts, it is meditation.”
– Ramana Maharshi
38. “Meditation is a vital practice to access conscious contact with your highest self.”
– Wayne Dyer
39. “The real meditation practice is how we live our lives from moment to moment to moment.”
– Jon Kabat-Zinn
40. “No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation.”
– Walter Bagehot
41. “There’s no substitute for the practice of meditation.”
– Wayne Dyer
42. “Transcendental meditation is like a car, a vehicle that allows you to go within. It’s a mental technique.”
– David Lynch
43. “The best way to meditate is through meditation itself.”
– Ramana Maharshi
44. “We tend to think of meditation in only one way. But life itself is a meditation.”
– Raul Julia
45. “The body is your temple. Keep it pure and clean for the soul to reside in.”
– B.K.S Iyengar
46. “Inhale the future. Exhale the past.”
– Unknow
47. “Yoga may look peaceful and calming, but even Arnold Schwarzenegger would have trouble breathing after twenty ‘surya namaskars’ in a row.”
– Kareena Kapoor Khan
48. “Yoga is about compassion and generosity towards others. It means being mindful of the world around us.”
– Christy Turlington
49. “Log out, shut down and do yoga.”
– Unknown
50. “A photographer gets people to pose for him. A yoga instructor gets people to pose for themselves.”
– T. Guillemets
51. “For those wounded by civilization, yoga is the most healing salve.”
– T. Guillemets
52. “Anyone who practices can obtain success in yoga but not one who is lazy. Constant practice alone is the secret of success.”
– Hatha Yoga Pradipika
53. “Yoga is the science of reality.”
– Sushil Singh
54. “To find inner bliss and happiness through yoga, learn to accept things as they are by changing your thoughts.”
– Debasish Mridha
55. “With yoga, you go back to your source to bloom again with joy and inner peace.”
– Debasish Mridha
Aftaab Khan
Thursday 22nd of November 2018
Wow. It's very inspiring. I love all great quotes.
Thanks, Karolina
Karo Tries
Thursday 22nd of November 2018
I'm glad you like them! Everyone deserves a little bit of yoga inspiration :)