Top 100 Yoga's Quotes
#2. One of yoga's great gifts to making is the discovery of the link that exists between energy, breath, and mind. As you change one, you also change the other two. If you excite one, the other two become excited and, conversely, if you calm one, the other two respond by becoming calm also.
John Novak
#3. Yoga's most sublime objective is to awaken an exalted state of spiritual realization; however, the tradition also recognizes that this state does not exist in absolute isolation from the world and worldly matters.
Rod Stryker
#4. 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
#5. Yoga's hard for me, but I know you can really feel the difference when you do it consistently. I'd rather be playing basketball.
Chris Noth
#6. Life must always go on and Yoga is not about an escape from life. Yoga's about a way of dealing with life more effectively; to be able to involve oneself with one's family, one's friends, one's social commitments, one's job and yet at the same time maintain one's centre.
Paul Harvey
#7. Yoga's nothing but young girls twistin' themselves into pretzels and prayin' to the devil.
Carey Corp
#9. On the path of love we feel that if we love today, it's only because God is loving through us, because there is a special grace present with which we can love.
Frederick Lenz
#10. I'm dying to go to India ... because the culture seems so vastly different from what I'm used to in the States. I would love to do some yoga there. And be amongst people who are so different than myself. There's so much you can learn from people who grew up in a different environment.
Christa B. Allen
#11. As the trunk is one but the branches are many, yoga is one but adaptations may vary.
B.K.S. Iyengar
#12. I love being toned and having muscle; it's so sexy and beautiful. And I owe it 100 percent to yoga.
Kaley Cuoco
#13. Krishna says, fight. He says, go out in the battlefield and kill those people whom it's your job to kill.
Frederick Lenz
#14. Diamond Dallas saved my life. He didn't have to, but that's the kind of guy he is. He's helped so many people with his DDP Yoga. It's just incredible with the lives he's changing, the lives he's affecting. I am so honored to be part of that.
Jake Roberts
#15. I love yoga. I can practice it wherever I am, at home, in my hotel room ... I like playing tennis, too, but that's more of a hobby because I'm not very good!
Sigrid Agren
#16. It was like finding Attila the Hun at a yoga class. Like finding Darth Vader playing ultimate Frisbee in the park. Like finding Megatron volunteering at a children's hospital. Like finding Nightmare Moon having a birthday party at Chuck E. Cheese.
Cory Doctorow
#17. My wife and I always comment that our lives are relatively mundane. She's a writer as well, I'm a writer, we spend most of our time writing, and kind of going to yoga in Brooklyn.
Mike Birbiglia
#18. You will find the truth the way you have found your awareness, spontaneously. It's a living process.
Nirmala Srivastava
#19. Yoga is firstly for individual growth, but through individual growth, society and community develop.
B.K.S. Iyengar
#20. Selflessness implies fun. Its fun to be free. Freedom is inner stillness and not being haunted by your desires, your fears, your aggressive tendencies ... it's being cool.
Frederick Lenz
#21. Regular practise of yoga can help you face the turmoil of life with steadiness and stability
B.K.S. Iyengar
#22. A bunch of bong-smoking, America-bashing, flag-burning, yoga-posing, incense-burning, dolphin-saving, salmon-eating hypocrites. These are the sensitive, liberal people who are always yelling about people's freedom of speech and expression, unless you happen to say something that pisses them off.
Richard Jeni
#23. Our greed comes from our fear that we will not have enough - whether it is money or love that we grasp. Yoga teaches us to let go of these fears and so to realize the abundance around us and within us.
B.K.S. Iyengar
#24. I tend to do something for two years then move on to something new. Yoga, then biking, then weight lifting, then back to biking. The moment it feels like a rut, I switch and search for a new love. It's like having a midlife crisis, but without the new wife or cheesy BMW.
Brad Meltzer
#25. If your nature is infinite awareness trapped in a body, suddenly there's a lack of happiness, a lack of freedom. No matter what you get you'll never be happy, because these are all trinkets.
Frederick Lenz
#26. No matter which way you turn ... there's nothing but illuison.
Frederick Lenz
#27. The mystic's idea of deliberately stupefying and stultifying himself is an "abomination unto the Lord." This, by the way, does not conflict with the rules of Yoga. That kind of suppression is comparable to the restrictions in athletic training, or diet in sickness.
Aleister Crowley
#28. Yeah, that's a luxury to be able to go to a two-hour yoga class! Sometimes I'll just get on the floor and do it for five, ten minutes. Whatever you can get, you just do it.
Lisa Rinna
#29. I'm a big fan of spinning and yoga. To strengthen my core, kick-boxing is really effective. The resistance tones everything, and it's a great stress reliever.
Katrina Bowden
#30. You can love infinity, eternity, Scotty dogs, sports, work, play, the feelings of being alive, the earth, the sky, the fire, the wind ... there's a lot you can love.
Frederick Lenz
#31. Sahaja Yoga is a very subtle happening within us. It's a very subtle happening. And this subtler happening gives you sensitivity to divine joy.
Nirmala Srivastava
#32. There's always someone to help, there's always some way in which you can perfect yourself through service to others.
Frederick Lenz
#33. Not all practitioners can jump to that highest level. They have to climb, step by step from the physical sphere to reach the spiritual sphere. If it is treated as exercise it is not the fault of yoga but of the practitioners.
B.K.S. Iyengar
#34. The soldier is willing to give their life, perhaps for someone they never even met in their country. That's a very high love.
Frederick Lenz
#35. I love yoga and hiking - I think that's the perfect combo.
Olivia Wilde
#36. Although yoga is commonly portrayed as a popular fitness trend, it's actually the core of the Vedic science that developed in the Indus Valley more than 5,000 years ago.
Deepak Chopra
#37. I've always been into sports and yoga and running. I actually study a martial arts self-defense program called Krav Maga. I can't quite say it's easy, but it's fun for me and I love to do it.
Kari Matchett
#38. The full ashtanga system practiced with devotion leads to freedom within one's heart.
K. Pattabhi Jois
#39. 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
#40. The universe is always ecstasy and it's always perfect, but we don't perceive it that well. If we keep doing our yoga in every lifetime, we perceive it more correctly.
Frederick Lenz
#42. First she got Jesus, probably fifteen years ago, and that didn't work out, so she tried Scientology, and that didn't help, but it cost a lot of money, so she tried Buddhism and yoga, and those didn't work, so she started drinking. I think that helped, because she's still drinking.
John Sandford
#43. I love hot yoga. I go to a sculpt class with weights. That's really good for the core and it's obviously super hot. I love cardio bar. I'm not a big gym fan, so I like to go to classes.
Naya Rivera
#44. I'm about to do my second Bikram yoga class in Anchorage, Alaska. It's the only way to stay warm. I've got to get into shape. I've been eating nothing but fish and chips.
Emily Blunt
#45. 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
#46. This practice of yoga is to remove the weeds from the body so that the garden can grow.
B.K.S. Iyengar
#47. It's far better to love impefectly than not to love at all.
Frederick Lenz
#49. I don't stretch my body as if it is an object. I do yoga from the self towards the body, not the other way around.
B.K.S. Iyengar
#50. I am a bit of a health nut. I really like to mix it up a lot. I do a lot of yoga, and I do a lot of Pilates, but I also like to run. That's kind of my meditation, I guess.
Jessica McNamee
#51. Ten minutes of deep relaxation five times a day would change anyone's life, whether or not he or she suffered from colitis.
Brian Leaf
#52. Samadhi is the absorption of God. There's no sense of time, place or condition.
Frederick Lenz
#53. 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
#54. Music is my way to shine back and express positive vibrations for a common healing. It's similar to farming, or surfing, or yoga. Before world peace, we have to have inner peace and music helps us get there.
Jason Mraz
#55. After a session of yoga, the mind becomes tranquil and passive.
B.K.S. Iyengar
#56. Please act in and through me. Please let my love increase, if it is your will. I feel that's the right thing; but even if it's not the right thing, I'm willing to abide by your judgment.
Frederick Lenz
#57. You go to Starbucks, and you know what you're going to get. It's the same with my yoga.
Bikram Choudhury
#58. 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
#59. You have to have something in your life that's more important than the work. People don't really like to admit that. I think that you have to find something else. I don't know what it is. Is it yoga or God or politics? For me it's just family.
Kevin Bacon
#60. It is everyone's right to achieve this state of ones evolution and everything necessary is already inbuilt. But as I respect your freedom, you have to have the desire to achieve this state, it cannot be forced upon you!
Nirmala Srivastava
#61. By persistent and sustained practice, anyone and everyone can make the yoga journey and reach the goal of illumination and freedom.
B.K.S. Iyengar
#62. Practice means making an effort to keep your mind steady. Yoga is about learning to pay attention. That's what drives transformation.
Beryl Bender Birch
#63. That's bullshit right there. I should be waking up with my cock in her mouth not because I told her we'd do yoga this morning.
Kendall Ryan
#64. I think that ballet is very good for the body. It's very similar to yoga, because you have to hold a position.
Carine Roitfeld
#65. Running - and yoga, too - is my sanity and my saviour. It's just finding the time to do it!
Jill Hennessy
#66. That's the quality of the Spirit that you start feeling so joyous and the joy doesn't have the duality of happiness and unhappiness. It's singular.
Nirmala Srivastava
#67. Yoga is almost like music in a way; there's no end to it.
Sting
#68. The body is your temple. Keep it pure and clean for the soul to reside in.
B.K.S. Iyengar
#69. Feminism freed my mind. Yoga freed my body. It's one thing to intellectualize self-love and another to embody it.
Melanie Klein
#70. I spent two weeks at the Sadhguru's [Jaggi Vasudev]. It was a wonderful experience. It was very different from what I normally do - earlier I used to do Ashtanga [yoga] all the time.
Donna Karan
#71. Don't confuse pressure with pleasure. For some people it"s not sure if they are having a seizure or ceasure
Ana Claudia Antunes
#72. Writing used to be my hobby, but now that it's my job, I have no hobby - except watching TV and laying around the pool reading 'U.S. Weekly.' I have tried many hobbies, such as knitting, Pilates, ballet, yoga, and guitar, but none of them have taken.
Meg Cabot
#73. It's a lifelong gift, something you can call on at any time.
Paul McCartney
#74. I do a lot of yoga. I practice yoga three or four times a week. It's an escape for me.
Nina Dobrev
#75. Practice doing yoga with an innocent mind. Then, you will be able to cognize the things happening in your body
B.K.S. Iyengar
#76. Always half an hour a day where it's just me and my yoga mat.
Karen Walker
#77. Selfless giving does not imply giving everything up - it's simply having a good time.
Frederick Lenz
#78. Yoga is an interior penetration leading to integration of being, senses, breath, mind, intelligence, consciousness, and Self. It is definitely an inward journey, evolution through involution, toward the Soul, which in turn desires to emerge and embrace you in its glory.
B.K.S. Iyengar
#79. Falling out of balance doesn't matter, really and truly. How we deal with that moment and how we find our way back to center, every day, again and again - that is the practice of yoga ... it's about trusting that you will find your way.
Cyndi Lee
#80. What motivates someone who's become wealthy to go out and work in the ghetto with those who are poor? What motivates one who has perfect health to go and work with the sick? If you understand - then you understand the root and cause of all existence.
Frederick Lenz
#81. I try to keep at a non-obsessive level of fitness. It's not about looking great, it's about just feeling good. So I do a lot of yoga. Bikram just blows my mind. It's mental as well as physical; if I don't train, I get very depressed.
Richard C. Armitage
#82. I love Bikram Yoga. I tend to move and think at a fast pace, and the heat forces me to slow down and just focus on my breath. I'm also a fan of Kundalini yoga. It's still a new practice for me, but I've found it infinitely helpful in getting me present.
Allison McAtee
#83. It took me whole decades to appreciate the depth and true value of yoga. Sacred texts supported my discoveries, but it was not they that signposted the way. What I learned through yoga, I found out through yoga.
B.K.S. Iyengar
#84. With a lot of hair and make-up then I'm possibly, remotely attractive. But it's rare, I don't think I'm ugly but I'm nothing particularly special. I'm not a yoga and health girl. I don't exercise that much and I eat crap and smoke and bite my nails.
Lisa Marie Presley
#85. Be kind; you're only here for a while. No sense of superiority, just do things for others. It's really fun.
Frederick Lenz
#86. It is not yoga that injures, but the way one does yoga that leads to injury.
B.K.S. Iyengar
#87. 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
#88. When we are aware about our body's sensations, we can release physical pain, tensions or stress through slow movements.
Amit Ray
#89. Submit to a daily practice. Your loyalty to that is a ring at the door. Keep knocking, and the joy inside will eventually open a window and look out to see who's there.
Rumi
#90. I'm a sucker for turquoise sea, white beaches and palm trees. I've been to the tropics every year since I could afford it. It's the perfect place to unwind. I can chill out, read, do a bit of yoga.
Bruno Tonioli
#91. When mind controls man, it's ... Bhoga (bondage). But when man controls mind, it's ... Yoga
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
#92. My job requires me to put on a little dress and run around the streets of New York in heels. But I also had the financial means to hire a yoga teacher to come to my house while my sitter watched the newborn. For 95 percent of the world, that's not realistic.
Sarah Jessica Parker
#93. Discrimination, viveka, means you know the difference between the transient and the eternal. That's what discrimination means in Shankara's yoga.
Frederick Lenz
#94. There's no place to go. There's nothing to attain. There's nothing to be reached. Love itself is all that you want.
Frederick Lenz
#95. Be kind, be loving, be generous. Give of yourself, give of your time and you'll be free. It's the oldest secret, the one thats most often forgotten - and that is to have fun through giving.
Frederick Lenz
#96. First yoga deals with health, strength and conquest of the body. Next, it lifts the veil of difference between the body and the mind. Lastly, it leads the Sadhaka to peace and unalloyed purity.
B.K.S. Iyengar
#97. When I started 'Third Watch,' I knew I was going to be with the firefighters and lifting, so I was doing yoga, running, and swimming - all at the same time. I didn't have a kid then. Now I don't have time for that. I want to spend time with my son and my husband, so it's mainly just yoga now.
Kim Raver
#99. yoga is an extremely effective way to unlock your reserves of vitality.
Robin S. Sharma
#100. Arjuna is a warrior of great renown, says he won't fight. He tells Krishna: I can't fight because I love these people. It's immoral. It's unjust. There's no winning.
Frederick Lenz
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