Yoga Quotes

Enjoy our collection of famous Yoga quotes to live by. Yoga has been used for many years as a way to relax, and to relieve stress. A great exercise routine for older people who want to stay limber and help them to stay in shape without getting into heavy physical exercise. Here are a couple to think about:

When the breath wanders the mind also is unsteady. But when the breath is calmed the mind too will be still, and the yogi achieves long life. Therefore, one should learn to control the breath.
Hatha Yoga Pradipika

You cannot always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside.
Mr. Yoga


Yoga is not for everyone, so they would argue, but everyone should do it.


A photographer gets people to pose for him. A yoga instructor gets people to pose for themselves.
T. Guillemets

In theory, practice and theory are the same. In practice they are not.
Yogi Berra

Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built.
Rumi

Before you've practiced, the theory is useless. After you've practiced, the theory is obvious.
David Williams

Yoga teaches us to cure what need not be endured and endure what cannot be cured.
B.K.S. Iyengar

The yoga mat is a good place to turn when talk therapy and antidepressants aren't enough.
Amy Weintraub

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

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

Yoga is possible for anybody who really wants it. Yoga is universal.... But don't approach yoga with a business mind looking for worldly gain.
Sri Krishna Pattabhi Jois

By embracing your mother wound as your yoga, you transform what has been a hindrance in your life into a teacher of the heart.
Phillip Moffitt



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