Quotes About Yoga And Life

#1. Overslept and had to race to get a life to Jas's with my dad. No time for yoga or makeup. Oh well, I'll start tomorrow. God alone knows how the Dalai Lama copes on a daily basis. He must get up at dawn. Actually, I read somewhere that he does get up at dawn.

Louise Rennison

#2. Yoga is not an ancient myth buried in oblivion. It is the most valuable inheritance of the present. It is the essential need of today and the culture of tomorrow

Satyananda Saraswati

#3. In L.A., you just kind of come and have a nice hiking-yoga-gym life.

Darren Star

#4. Coming to Haramara is like coming home. My body returns to the earth, my mind mesmerized by the rhythms of the ocean and my spirit flies in this magical place. Yoga is a way of life and Haramara Retreat is where we can re-educate ourselves to live in balance.

Rodney Yee

#5. To create a peaceful world, inhale the love of life and exhale the beauty of life.

Debasish Mridha

#6. I am pretty relentless about exercise. I love working out and doing cardiovascular workouts. I'm now doing the Whole Life Challenge to discover the unhealthy patterns in my diet and to adjust them to more reasonable levels. And more yoga!

Tim Matheson

#7. Yoga means we accept responsibility for the tasks in our life, and we know that being a king, being an enlightened teacher, being someone who sweeps the streets, we know that nothing is a greater yoga than anything else.

Frederick Lenz

#8. She [Mandy Ingber] brought yoga into my life. It completely changed my life ... It's one of the most fun workouts I've ever had ... So have fun and work hard because it will totally pay off.

Jennifer Aniston

#9. So when we wake from the ignorance of this world, the dream of existence, all of the experiences that we have ever had fall away. The ideas of life and death, of rebirth, of reincarnation, karma, God, truth, knowledge - all these things fall away.

Frederick Lenz

#10. What is Yoga? Yoga is self-conquest. Self-conquest is God-Realization. He who practices Yoga does two things with one stroke: he simplifies his whole life and he gets a freee access to the Divine.

Sri Chinmoy

#11. I understand that it would be smart, career-wise, to line up something, but it wouldn't be smart for my personal life or my sanity. Some people thrive when they're working. I thrive when I'm hanging out with my friends and doing yoga.

Courtney Thorne-Smith

#12. Yoga changed my life. I go between 4 and 6 times a week. It's incredibly grounding and an intense level of focus.

Katharine Towne

#13. We learn that those around us are an extension of ourselves, both animate and inanimate. All things have a life and form. We learn to love them all.

Frederick Lenz

#14. Practice love and self-acceptance and you'll have an absolutely beautiful life.

Frederick Lenz

#15. Yoga is an integral part of my daily routine. That definitely helps me approach all aspects of my life from a place of mindfulness and clarity, through the meditation that usually accompanies this practice.

Christy Turlington

#16. Trust life, trust that it will always guide you to the right thing, and be kind, be compassionate.

Frederick Lenz

#17. My life is so tumultuous. I dive into everything. I'm feeling all up and down and sleepy and moody and hormonal - it just gets crazy. Just to keep myself balanced, I do things like yoga and meditation.

India.Arie

#18. Become slower in your journey through life. Practice yoga and meditation if you suffer from 'hurry sickness.' Become more introspective by visiting quiet places such as churches, museums, mountains and lakes. Give yourself permission to read at least one novel a month for pleasure.

Wayne Dyer

#19. Define the perimeter of your life. Set it beyond the realm of possibility. Then from there begin to paint in between the lines. Use many colors and get into every possible nook and cranny. Don't erase a single thing.

Josh Blatter

#20. The chief helps in this liberation are Abhyasa and Vairagya. Vairagya is non - attachment to life, because it is the will to enjoy that brings all this bondage in its train; and Abhyasa is constant practice of any one of the Yogas.

Swami Vivekananda

#21. Yoga means addition - addition of energy, strength and beauty to body, mind and soul.

Amit Ray

#22. I'm truly blessed with great genes. I've never done anything drastic in my life, and I can proudly say I haven't tried any of those crazy fad diets, either. I believe in eating right and living healthy. Plus, I love going to the gym, and I enjoy yoga because it streamlines your body.

Malaika Arora Khan

#23. Yoga, in all its forms, provides a means for the practitioner to master the body and the mind so that the soul (or true self) can emerge to share in the experience of life.

Lei Camille

#24. See yourself as the perfect creation that you are, but at the same time, recognize with sincere honesty, the areas of your life that are out of balance and get to work to improve and grow.

Dashama Konah Gordon

#25. When this life ends, I will be absorbed back into you. I have come forth from you . You are all good and you know all that there is. So please act in me and through me at every moment and every second. Let me be but an extension of your being. Teach me how to live and love selflessly, at all times.

Frederick Lenz

#26. Don't be afraid to experiement with your life and with your heart, your meditation and your being. Just love.

Frederick Lenz

#27. The law of life is to leave behind the ground one is standing on and then step forward.

Rama Swami

#28. Yoga is the best thing for your sex life. It keeps you limber in all kinds of ways. It teaches you to love your body and your partner's body. But more than anything, it keeps your mind liquid, and nothing's sexier than that.

Woody Harrelson

#29. When we are aligned, everything can flow, and life and yoga becomes effortless.

Rebecca Hall

#30. Ayurveda is a sister philosophy to yoga. It is the science of life or longevity and it teaches about the power and the cycles of nature, as well as the elements.

Christy Turlington

#31. The true miracle lies in our eagerness to allow, appreciate, and honor the uniqueness, and freedom of each sentient being to sing the song of their heart.

Amit Ray

#32. The study of yoga makes me inspired. And then the teaching of yoga makes it that much more real. The sense that this practice and this tool helps other people be centered, be present, and helps them really [be] embodied and [have] a life.

Rodney Yee

#33. I wanted to share the experience of how yoga and meditation have transformed my life, how they have enabled me to observe who I am, first in my body, and then emotionally, and on to a kind of spiritual path.

Mariel Hemingway

#34. In the East they say suffering is avoidable and not necessary. Life is bliss! You know why? This is because wisdom, yoga and meditation are ways to avoid suffering which has not yet come.

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

#35. I might be a pretty earthy, crunchy girl, yes. There might be some crystals and Buddhas in my house. I may meditate and eat all green and compost ... Yoga is a very regular part of my life.

Alysia Reiner

#36. Those who pursue a worldy life - who try to get others to do what they want, to peform for them, who use and abuse in the name of their own happiness - are miserable.

Frederick Lenz

#37. The science of yoga saved my life, and I've seen it save many other lives, no matter how dark and hopeless it might feel for someone, there is a pathway forward towards stability and empowerment ... toward creating a new and more meaningful identity and mission in life.

Brad Willis

#38. If you practice yoga every day with perseverance, you will be able to face the turmoil of life with steadiness and maturity.

B.K.S. Iyengar

#39. My path, my life, my career has really been a journey from moving from, in a sense, darkness to light. From pain to joy through the experience of yoga and meditation. It's an ongoing adventure that's unfolding every day.

MC Yogi

#40. Practicing yoga does not eliminate life's challenges, and neither does it provide us with a convenient trap-door to escape from life's distractions. Instead, Yoga gives us the skills to meet life head-on with dignity and poise.

Donna Farhi

#41. Love does not seek to please itself, but offers itself and its life to others.

Frederick Lenz

#42. I'm a very typical yoga-practicing musician; I do it when I can. I'm not hardcore about it. A lot of my lyrics talk about celebrating life and working through pain. I think that's what yoga's about, getting rid of, moving energy and letting it flow through you.

Brett Dennen

#43. In our life there is one side which is finite and another side which is infinite. I want you to think about both the sides and design the best life and stand in their true values.

Amit Ray

#44. Illusion doesn't mean that something is not real. Illusion simply means that something is less real than something else. This life and this world certainly exist - who is to say the reality of the dream is not real?

Frederick Lenz

#45. Yoga is not a new path to follow but a way to become conscious of the original impetus of life. Yoga is the movement and evolution of Life itself.

David Frawley

#46. If we are not living IN our bodies, honoring them as our TEMPLE, we are closing off the divine channels (nadis) of energy that run through us. Additionally, when we are not in good physical shape, we limit our enjoyment of our life experience. Thus, yoga is spiritual and physical.

Dashama Konah Gordon

#47. Eternity gives life to all and sustains all, transforms all on the wheel of dharma - until all attain perfection.

Frederick Lenz

#48. I hoped to get instruction in Yoga, expected wonderful teachings, but what the teacher did was mainly to force me to face the darkness within myself and it almost killed me ... I was beaten down in every sense until I had to come to terms with that in me which I kept rejecting all my life.

Irina Tweedie

#49. Yoga is an art, a science and a philosophy. It touches the life of man atevery level: physical, mental, spiritual. It is a practical method formaking one's life purposeful, useful and noble.

B.K.S. Iyengar

#50. A person experiences life as something separated from the rest - a kind of optical delusion of consciousness. Our task must be to free ourselves from this self-imposed prison, and through compassion, to find the reality of Oneness.

Albert Einstein

#51. Through yoga practice you can change the course of your life by purifying your karma. But to do that you must have an idea of where you've been and where you want to go.

Sharon Gannon

#52. Doing yoga on the road was really a life-saver, and a life-changer ... .It kept me focused and gave me more control over the way I divided my energy. I realize that if [a place of goodness] is the basis for all decision-making, then the road is clear.

Sheryl Crow

#53. As each individual is electrically alive and dynamic, so yoga is a living, dynamic force in life. In order to savor its essence, one needs a religiously attentive dynamic practice done with awareness and absorption.

B.K.S. Iyengar

#54. Meditation is that dimension of science which focuses on creating the right kind of interior, so that you can live a peaceful and joyous life.

Jaggi Vasudev

#55. Wear gratitude like a cloak and it will feed every corner of your life.

Rumi

#56. I don't put much stock in powers that people have to hurt others, in sorcery and all this nonsense. There are murders and there are dictators. That is just a part of life. The intelligent use of power in yoga can assist you avoiding that side of humanity.

Frederick Lenz

#57. Know, in every moment, that you have attracted this situation into your life experience so you can grow and learn the lessons necessary to get to the next level.

Dashama Konah Gordon

#58. Life is a living flute, yoga is the art of creating melody and rhythm in it.

Amit Ray

#59. The Love factor makes anything hallowed, and an action is no exception. Doing things with love makes the work sacred.

Banani Ray

#60. Yoga is the journey from just eating and sleeping to becoming an ecstatic being. This is the aspiration of life itself.

Jaggi Vasudev

#61. For me, first, it's finding quiet in my life - and I do that through yoga and meditation. It's also been a matter of changing the way I eat, because I think what we eat can inform who we are; food is a chemical and a drug to a certain extent.

Mariel Hemingway

#62. Repose is the secret of all contemplation and meditation, the secret of getting in tune with that aspect of life which is the essence of all things. When one is not accustomed to take repose, one does not know what is behind one's being.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

#63. Yoga is the technology of upgrading, activating, and refining these inner energies for the highest possibilities. Suddenly, your capabilities reach a level of brilliance that you never imagined possible. An accidental and limited life turns near-miraculous. But

Sadhguru

#64. Until my Yoga practice became the great facilitator of all things in my life, the integration of career, purpose and motherhood felt like an unattainable dream.

Brenda Strong

#65. Unite has a great dry shampoo called 7Seconds. After a hot yoga class, when I'm super sweaty I spray this on and my hair comes back to life. Miraculous!

Jennifer Morrison

#66. I was interested in the kicks and the punches. I felt like I could utilize that in my real life, and not just in fake land. I've always done yoga for my breathing, and hiking for my mind, but I was also exercising, at the same time.

Zoey Deutch

#67. Once you are absolutely thoughtlessly aware, you are one with the Divine, so much so that the Divine takes over every activity, every moment of your life and looks after you and you feel completely secured, one with the Divine and enjoy the blessings of the Divine.

Nirmala Srivastava

#68. Yoga has expanded beyond asana for me. It's how I live my life and currently I'm throwing myself into a meditation practice.

Kathryn Budig

#69. The word 'yoga' means skill - skill to live your life, to manage your mind, to deal with your emotions, to be with people, to be in love and not let that love turn into hatred.

Sri Chinmoy

#70. The real payoff of a yoga practice, I came to see, is not a perfect handstand or a deeper forward bend - it is the newly born self that each day steps off the yoga mat and back into life.

Rolf Gates

#71. Yoga is a study of life, study of your body, breath, mind, intellect, memory, and ego. Study of your inner faculties!

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

#72. As we embrace our passions and delve into the mystery of life, we unite with the majestic complexity of nature; and if we follow the signs, this can help us understand who we really are.

Sebastian Pole

#73. Retaining our capacity for reason
is common sense, but definite conclusions and beliefs keep us from seeing life as it really is at any given moment.

H.E. Davey

#74. Regular practise of yoga can help you face the turmoil of life with steadiness and stability

B.K.S. Iyengar

#75. A yogi realizes the divinity in him and the divinity that is present in this world. In his own heartbeat and his own regular breath he feels the flow of all the seasons and the throbbing touch of universal life.

Fr. Joe Pereira

#76. Yoga is bringing fitness in body, calmness in mind, kindness in heart and awareness in life.

Amit Ray

#77. 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

#78. We have two choices in life: One is to fulfill ourselves. The other is to take the time and energy that we would utilize in fulfilling ourselves and use it to make others happy.

Frederick Lenz

#79. I encourage students to check out different styles of yoga and different teachers even within one system. Seek the teacher that inspires you, and practice the yoga that makes you feel the best. You'll then find the authentic practice for your life and path.

David F. Swensen

#80. Having a tough time, things aren't working out no matter what you try and do? That's because you are spending your whole life just doing things for yourself. That's a very limited view of your being.

Frederick Lenz

#81. He no longer grasped to a strong sense of self. To him life felt more like a dream, a cascade of cause and effect that was completely up for grabs-and he was no longer separate from any of it. Because of that, he could do amazing things

James Connor

#82. When you grasp the yogic principles and philosophies, you can apply them to any activity you are doing. Then every thing you do is spiritually enhancing your life. And this leads to the ultimate experience where everything you do is YOGA. It is all Union, unifying you with the Supreme Source.

Dashama Konah Gordon

#83. After the demands of the ego and its greed surrendered, the struggle for fulfillment of personal desires lessens; life takes on a new zest like a breath of fresh air.

Sivananda Radha Saraswati

#84. You spend so much time in your head in life. And what yoga does is, it asks you to allow your head to be quiet, to allow it to be still, just for an hour and a half. Just deal with your body and your breath. And it's a great workout. I love it.

Colin Farrell

#85. Tree cutting and yoga, who knew Bethany was so multi-talented.

Tellulah Darling

#86. In the soldier we see the love of country. When you are willing to go onto a battlefield and give your life to defend an ideal ... knowing that you may not live through day.

Frederick Lenz

#87. I try to be as disciplined as I possibly can. I try to live a fairly kind of clean life. I do yoga; I cycle and do weights and swim. I do whatever it takes.

Pierce Brosnan

#88. It takes an honest look to observe our selves without judgment, and then to do something about it. Observing without judgment is the practice of yoga. Doing something about it is the stuff that makes up your life.

Tara Stiles

#89. Yoga is about awakening. Yoga is about creating a life that brings more beauty and more love into the world.

John Friend

#90. Yoga adds years to your life and life to your years.

Alan Finger

#91. The science and technology of how this life functions and what we can do with it, is what we refer to as yoga.

Jaggi Vasudev

#92. Love is at the heart of the world, just as it is at the heart of your life. Your relationships with your lover, your family, your friends, and the world around you define the quality of your emotional wholeness and reflect your relationship with yourself.

Sebastian Pole

#93. The more you treat your body and the cells as intelligent being the more you will be sharp, quick, competent, and fulfilled.

Amit Ray

#94. The desire of your vital being is towards work. And the vital being won't find any interest in yoga so long as you do not have any experience of the higher and fuller life that is in yoga. As long as this experience is not there, the vital being will not find any interest.

Sri Aurobindo

#95. Breathe and you dwell in the here and now, breath and you see impermanence is life.

Nhat Hanh

#96. When the Kundalini rises, automatically you develop your own balances and that balanced life manifests outside. Now this ecological problem can be solved as soon as human beings get transformed and develop their balances. Because we are imbalanced, that's why the nature has gone into imbalance.

Nirmala Srivastava

#97. Just as writing can become calligraphy when it's creatively, skillfully, and consciously performed, so can all other activities become art. In this case, we are reflecting upon life itself as an artistic statement - the art of living.

H.E. Davey

#98. Things that we do every day make up who we are and the results we have in our life. Bank accounts collect from constant deposits and good health is achieved or maintained from what we put into our bodies daily.

Malti Bhojwani

#99. The man who sat on the ground in his tipi meditating on life and its meaning, accepting the kinship of all creatures and acknowledging unity with the universe of things, was infusing into his being the true essence of civilization.

Luther Standing Bear

#100. You can have calmness of mind at all times by the practice of yoga. You can have restful sleep. You can have increased energy, vigour, vitality, longevity, and a high standard of health. You can turn out efficient work within a short space of time. You can have success in every walk of life.

Sivananda