{"id":574,"date":"2020-02-08T07:02:39","date_gmt":"2020-02-08T01:32:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifegram.org\/?p=574"},"modified":"2022-06-19T12:56:42","modified_gmt":"2022-06-19T07:26:42","slug":"yoga-quotes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lifegram.org\/yoga-quotes\/","title":{"rendered":"160+ Inspiring Yoga Quotes About Happiness and Balance"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yoga quotes help you to stay motivated during your practice, whether you\u2019re a beginner or a regular practitioner. <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

As both a yoga instructor and a writer, I love to share yoga quotes with my students. I find that sometimes inspirational words work well to deepen their practice and self yoga practice can provide a link between what\u2019s happening on your mat to what\u2019s going on in your life.<\/span><\/p>\n

Therefore, we have compiled for you some of the most amazing yoga quotes to keep you motivated and excited to get on the mat. <\/span><\/p>\n

Pick some favorites and think of them the next time you go to a yoga class, whether that\u2019s at a studio or at home.<\/span><\/p>\n

Best Yoga Quotes<\/span><\/h2>\n

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1. Yoga is the journey of the Self, to the Self, through the Self.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 The Bhagavad Gita<\/span><\/p>\n

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2. Yoga teaches us to cure what need not be endured and endure what cannot be cured.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 B.K.S. Iyengar<\/span><\/p>\n

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3. Surrender to Yoga, for where, is the conflict when the truth is known.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 Sri T.Krishnamacharya<\/span><\/p>\n

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4. Take care of your body, it\u2019s the only place you have to live.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 Jim Rohn<\/span><\/p>\n

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5. The nature of yoga is to shine the light of awareness into the darkest corners of the body.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 Jason Crandell<\/span><\/p>\n

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6. Change only happens in the present moment. The past is already done. The future is just energy and intention.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 Kino MacGregor<\/span><\/p>\n

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7. Yoga begins with listening. When we listen, we are giving space to what is.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 Richard Freeman<\/span><\/p>\n

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8. Yoga does not transform the way we see things, it transforms the person who sees.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 B.K.S. Iyengar<\/span><\/p>\n

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9. Yoga is not about self-improvement. It\u2019s about self-acceptance.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 Gurmukh Kaur Khalsa<\/span><\/p>\n

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10. Yoga means addition \u2013 addition of energy, strength and beauty to body, mind and soul.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 Amit Ray<\/span><\/p>\n

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11. Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest we take between two deep breaths.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 Etty Hittlesum<\/span><\/p>\n

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12. If you seek peace, be still. If you seek wisdom, be silent. If you seek love, be yourself.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 Becca Lee<\/span><\/p>\n

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13. When you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 Peace Pilgrim<\/span><\/p>\n

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14. Yoga begins right where I am \u2013 not where I was yesterday or where I long to be.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 Linda Sparrowe<\/span><\/p>\n

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15. Don\u2019t move the way fear makes you move. Move the way love makes you move. Move the way joy makes you move.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 Osho<\/span><\/p>\n

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16. You are the sky, everything else is just the weather.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 Pema Chodron<\/span><\/p>\n

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17. 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.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 Rolf Gates<\/span><\/p>\n

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18. It is not arrogant or egotistical to feel good inside. You had nothing to do with it. It\u2019s simply the honest response to clearly perceived Reality.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 Erich Schiffman<\/span><\/p>\n

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19. I offer you peace. I offer you love. I offer you friendship. I see your beauty. I hear your need. I feel your feelings. My wisdom flows from the Highest Source. I salute that Source in you. Let us work together for unity and love.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 Gandhi<\/span><\/p>\n

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20. Yoga is a light that once lit will never dim, the better your practice the brighter your flame.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 B.K.S. Iyengar<\/span><\/p>\n

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21. Wisdom is knowing we are all One. Love is what it feels like and Compassion is what it acts like.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 Ethan Walker III<\/span><\/p>\n

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22. Have only love in your heart for others. The more you see the good in them, the more you will establish good in yourself.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 Paramahansa Yogananda<\/span><\/p>\n

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23. Mindfulness helps you go home to the present. And every time you go there and recognize a condition of happiness that you have, happiness comes.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 Thich Nhat Hanh<\/span><\/p>\n

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24. 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.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 Pema Chodron<\/span><\/p>\n

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25. Inner peace begins the moment you choose not to allow another person or event to control your emotions.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 Pema Chodron<\/span><\/p>\n

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26. Your soul is your best friend. Treat it with care, nurture it with growth, feed it with love.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 Ashourina Yalda<\/span><\/p>\n

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27. The body benefits from movement, and the mind benefits from stillness.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 Sakyong Mipham<\/span><\/p>\n

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28. Follow your nature. The practice is really about uncovering your own pose; we have great respect for our teachers, but unless we can uncover our own pose in the moment, it\u2019s not practice \u2014 it\u2019s mimicry. Rest deeply in Savasana every day. Always enter that pratyahara (withdrawn state) every day. And just enjoy yourself. For many years I mistook discipline as ambition. Now I believe it to be more about consistency. Do get on the mat. Practice and life are not that different.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 Judith Hanson Lasater<\/span><\/p>\n

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29. Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength while loving someone deeply gives you courage.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 Lao Tzu<\/span><\/p>\n

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30. Be a lamp to yourself. Be your own confidence. Hold on to the truth within yourself as to the only truth.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 Buddha<\/span><\/p>\n

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31. For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it. For every truth there is an ear somewhere to hear it. For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 Ivan Panin<\/span><\/p>\n

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32. There will always be people who can do it better than you, but that\u2019s a good thing! Start to see competition as inspiration \u2014 without envy.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 Kathryn Budig<\/span><\/p>\n

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34. Accepting means you allow yourself to feel whatever it is you are feeling at that moment. It is part of the isness of the Now. You can\u2019t argue with what is. Well, you can, but if you do, you suffer.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 Eckhart Tolle<\/span><\/p>\n

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35. What you think, you become.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 Buddha<\/span><\/p>\n

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36. Once you\u2019re in touch with the life force around us, it\u2019s natural to want to help keep it around.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 Adi Carter<\/span><\/p>\n

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37. Yoga is the journey of the self, through the self, to the self.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 The Bhagavad Gita<\/span><\/p>\n

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38. Yoga is a dance between control and surrender \u2013 between pushing and letting go \u2013 and when to push and when to let go becomes part of the creative process, part of the open-ended exploration of your being.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 Joel Kramer<\/span><\/p>\n

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39.Each of us is a lake of love, yet strangely enough, we are all thirsty.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 Swami Kripalu<\/span><\/p>\n

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40. Yoga is the perfect opportunity to be curious about who you are.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 Jason Crandell<\/span><\/p>\n

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41. Your life is a sacred journey. It is about change, growth, discovery, movement, transformation, continuously expanding your vision of what is possible, stretching your soul, learning to see clearly and deeply, listening to your intuition, taking courageous challenges at every step along the way. You are on the path\u2026 exactly where you are meant to be right now\u2026 And from here, you can only go forward, shaping your life story into a magnificent tale of triumph, of healing, of courage, of beauty, of wisdom, of power, of dignity, and of love.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 Caroline Adams<\/span><\/p>\n

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42. The soul is here for its own joy.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

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43. The best thing you could do is master the chaos in you. You are not thrown into the fire, you are the fire.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 Mama Indigo<\/span><\/p>\n

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44. The very heart of yoga practice is abhyasa \u2013 steady effort in the direction you want to go.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 Sally Kempton<\/span><\/p>\n

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45. Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 Mother Teresa<\/span><\/p>\n

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46. Close your eyes and imagine the best version of you possible. That\u2019s who you really are. Let go of any part of you that doesn\u2019t believe it.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013C. Assaad<\/span><\/p>\n

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47. Go from a human being doing yoga to a human being yoga. \u2013 Baron Baptiste<\/span><\/p>\n

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48. Remember, it doesn\u2019t matter how deep into a posture you go. What does matter is who you are when you get there.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 Max Storm<\/span><\/p>\n

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49. Yoga is not about touching your toes, it\u2019s about what you learn on the way down.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 Jigar Gor<\/span><\/p>\n

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50. Yoga does not change the way we see things, it transforms the person who sees.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 B.K.S Iyengar<\/span><\/p>\n

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51. Live life as if everything is rigged in your favour.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

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52. Meditation is a way for nourishing and blossoming the divinity within you. \u2013 Amit Ray<\/span><\/p>\n

People often say that motivation doesn\u2019t last. Well, neither does bathing. That\u2019s why we recommend it daily.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 Zig Ziglar<\/span><\/p>\n

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53. First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 Aristotle<\/span><\/p>\n

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54. When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 Helen Keller<\/span><\/p>\n

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55. 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.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 Amit Ray<\/span><\/p>\n

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56. The ultimate goal of yoga is to always observe things accurately, and therefore never act in a way that will make us regret our actions later.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 T.K.V. Desikachar<\/span><\/p>\n

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57. Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 Buddha<\/span><\/p>\n

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58. The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 C.G. Jung<\/span><\/p>\n

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59. The body is your temple. Keep it pure and clean for the soul to reside in.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 Geeta Iyengar<\/span><\/p>\n

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60. Yoga is possible for anybody who really wants it. Yoga is universal\u2026. But don\u2019t approach yoga with a business mind looking for worldly gain.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 Sri Pattabhi Jois<\/span><\/p>\n

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61. 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.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 Rolf Gates<\/span><\/p>\n

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62. My sole literary ambition is to write one good novel, then retire to my hut in the desert, assume the lotus position, compose my mind and senses, and sink into meditation, contemplating my novel.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 Edward Abbey<\/span><\/p>\n

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63. Yoga is about clearing away whatever is in us that prevents our living in the most full and whole way. With yoga, we become aware of how and where we are restricted in body, mind, and heart and how gradually to open and release these blockages. As these blockages are cleared, our energy is freed. We start to feel more harmonious, more at one with ourselves. Our lives begin to flow or we begin to flow more in our lives.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 Cybele Tomlinson<\/span><\/p>\n

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64. If you hear a voice within you say, \u201cyou cannot paint,\u201d then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 Vincent Van Gogh<\/span><\/p>\n

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65. Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 Maya Angelou<\/span><\/p>\n

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66. In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 Camus<\/span><\/p>\n

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67. The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 Ralph Waldo Emerson<\/span><\/p>\n

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68. A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 Willy Wonka<\/span><\/p>\n

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69. Make each day your masterpiece.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 John Wooden<\/span><\/p>\n

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70. Every moment is a fresh beginning.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 T.S. Eliot<\/span><\/p>\n

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71. When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 Lao Tzu<\/span><\/p>\n

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72. I close my eyes in order to see.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 Paul Gauguin<\/span><\/p>\n

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73. Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 Winston Churchill<\/span><\/p>\n

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74. Light tomorrow with today.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 Elizabeth Barrett Browning<\/span><\/p>\n

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75. 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.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 Sharon Gannon<\/span><\/p>\n

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76. A photographer gets people to pose for him. A yoga instructor gets people to pose for themselves.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 Terri Guillemets<\/span><\/p>\n

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77. Anyone who practices can obtain success in yoga but not one who is lazy. Constant practice alone is the secret of success.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 Svatmarama<\/span><\/p>\n

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78. Before you\u2019ve practiced, the theory is useless. After you\u2019ve practiced, the theory is obvious.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 David Williams<\/span><\/p>\n

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79. Exercises are like prose, whereas yoga is the poetry of movements. Once you understand the grammar of yoga; you can write your poetry of movements.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 Amit Ray<\/span><\/p>\n

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80. Yoga is really trying to liberate us from\u2026 shame about our bodies. To love your body is a very important thing \u2014 I think the health of your mind depends on your being able to love your body.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 Rodney Yee<\/span><\/p>\n

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81. Yoga is almost like music in a way; there\u2019s no end to it.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 Sting<\/span><\/p>\n

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82. The gift of learning to meditate is the greatest gift you can give yourself in this lifetime.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 Sogyal Rinpoche<\/span><\/p>\n

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83. To perform every action artfully is yoga.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 Swami Kripalu<\/span><\/p>\n

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84. The peace of God is with them whose mind and soul are in harmony, who are free from desire and wrath, who know their own soul.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 Hagavad Gita<\/span><\/p>\n

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85. Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

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86. If I\u2019m losing balance in a pose, I stretch higher and God reaches down to steady me. It works every time, and not just in yoga.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 Terri Guillemets<\/span><\/p>\n

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87. When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all of your thoughts break their bonds. Your mind transcends limitations; your consciousness expands in every direction; and you find yourself in a new, great and wonderful world. Dormant forces, faculties and talents become alive and you discover yourself to be a greater person than you ever dreamed yourself to be.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 Patanjali<\/span><\/p>\n

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88. One of the fundamental principles of yoga: a small action done repeatedly can make an enormous difference.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 Dr. Timothy McCall<\/span><\/p>\n

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89. Anyone can practice. Young man can practice. Old man can practice. Very old man can practice. Man who is sick, he can practice. Man who doesn\u2019t have strength can practice. Except lazy people; lazy people can\u2019t practice Ashtanga yoga.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 Sri Krishna Pattabhi Jois<\/span><\/p>\n

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90. Clinging to life, flowing by its own potency [due to past experience], exists even in the wise.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 Patanjali<\/span><\/p>\n

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91. By cultivating attitudes of friendliness toward the happy, compassion for the unhappy, delight in the virtuous, and disregard toward the wicked, the mind-stuff retains its undisturbed calmness.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 Patanjali<\/span><\/p>\n

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92. Crying is one of the highest devotional songs. One who knows crying, knows spiritual practice. If you can cry with a pure heart, nothing else compares to such a prayer. Crying includes all the principles of Yoga.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 Kripalvanandji<\/span><\/p>\n

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93. 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.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 T.K.V. Desikachar<\/span><\/p>\n

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94. Yoga, as a way of life and a philosophy, can be practiced by anyone with inclination to undertake it, for yoga belongs to humanity as a whole. It is not the property of any one group or any one individual, but can be followed by any and all, in any corner of the globe, regardless of class, creed or religion.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 Sri Krishna Pattabhi Jois<\/span><\/p>\n

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95. Remember the emphasis on the heart. The mind lives in doubt and the heart lives in trust. When you trust, suddenly you become centered.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 Osho<\/span><\/p>\n

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96. Hope is not a prediction of the future, it\u2019s a declaration of what is possible.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 Yogi Bhajan<\/span><\/p>\n

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97. The purpose of life is to watch and experience living. To enjoy living every moment of it. And to live in environments, which are calm, quiet, slow, sophisticated, elegant. Just to be. Whether you are naked or you have a golden robe on you, that doesn\u2019t make any difference. The ideal purpose of your life is that you are grateful \u2013 great and full \u2013 that you are alive, and you enjoy it.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 Yogi Bhajan<\/span><\/p>\n

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98. The harmonizing of opposing forces is a key aspect of yoga \u2014 hot energy is united with cool energy, strong with soft, and masculine with feminine.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 Tara Fraser<\/span><\/p>\n

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99. That\u2019s 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.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 Rodney Yee<\/span><\/p>\n

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100. The aim of yoga is to eliminate the control that material nature exerts over the human spirit, to rediscover through introspective practice what the poet T.S. Eliot called \u2018the still point of the turning world.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 Barbara Stoler Miller<\/span><\/p>\n

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101. 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.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 Sharon Gannon<\/span><\/p>\n

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102. Yoga does not remove us from the reality or responsibilities of everyday life but rather places our feet firmly and resolutely in the practical ground of experience. We don\u2019t transcend our lives; we return to the life we left behind in the hopes of something better.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 Donna Farhi<\/span><\/p>\n

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103. Practicing yoga during the day is a matter of keeping your eyes on the road and one ear turned toward the infinite.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 Erich Schiffmann<\/span><\/p>\n

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104. Yoga is a way of moving into stillness in order to experience the truth of who you are.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 Erich Schiffmann<\/span><\/p>\n

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105. Yoga is the unifying art of transforming dharma into action, be it through inspired thought, properly nurturing our children, a painting, a kindness or an act of peace that forever moves humanity forward.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 Micheline Berry<\/span><\/p>\n

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106. Mountain pose is an affirmation. You can conquer anything with your natural boldness and resolute strength. Only you can reach the peak of your success.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 Terri Guillemets<\/span><\/p>\n

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107. The reward for doing yoga well is simple\u2014you get to do a better job of living a fulfilling life.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 Randal Williams<\/span><\/p>\n

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108. I was in yoga the other day. I was in full lotus position. My chakras were all aligned. My mind is cleared of all clatter and I\u2019m looking out of my third eye and everything that I\u2019m supposed to be doing. It\u2019s amazing what comes up, when you sit in that silence. Mama keeps whites bright like the sunlight, Mama\u2019s got the magic of Clorox.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 Ellen DeGeneres<\/span><\/p>\n

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109. Concentrating on poses clears the mind, while focusing on the breath helps the body shift out of fight or flight mode.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 Melanie Haiken<\/span><\/p>\n

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110.The autonomic nervous system is divided into the sympathetic system, which is often identified with the fight-or-flight response, and the parasympathetic, which is identified with what\u2019s been called the relaxation response. When you do yoga \u2013 the deep breathing, the stretching, the movements that release muscle tension, the relaxed focus on being present in your body \u2013 you initiate a process that turns the fight or flight system off and the relaxation response on. That has a dramatic effect on the body. The heartbeat slows, respiration decreases, blood pressure decreases. The body seizes this chance to turn on the healing mechanisms.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 Richard Faulds<\/span><\/p>\n

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111. This calm steadiness of the senses is called yoga. Then one should become watchful, becomes yoga comes and go.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 Katha Upanishad<\/span><\/p>\n

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112. Your hand opens and closes and opens and closes. If it were always a fist or always stretched open, you would be paralyzed. Your deepest presence is in every small contracting and expanding, the two as beautifully balanced and coordinated as bird wings.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

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113. Better indeed is knowledge than mechanical practice. Better than knowledge is meditation. But better still is surrender of attachment to results, because there follows immediate peace.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 Bhagavad Gita<\/span><\/p>\n

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114. Understanding without practice is better than practice without understanding. Understanding with practice is better than understanding without practice. Residing in your true nature is better than understanding or practice.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 Upanishads<\/span><\/p>\n

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115. This yoga is not possible, for the one who eats too much, or who does not eat at all; who sleeps too much, or who keeps awake.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 Bhagavad Gita<\/span><\/p>\n

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116. The more you meditate, the more helpful you can be to others, and the more deeply you will be in tune with God.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 Paramahansa Yogananda<\/span><\/p>\n

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117. Silence is not silent. Silence speaks. It speaks most eloquently. Silence is not still. Silence leads. It leads most perfectly.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 Sri Chinmoy<\/span><\/p>\n

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118.\u00a0<\/span>The perennial wisdom of the Bhagavad Gita can teach us how to transform our character, conduct and consciousness to meet the challenges of everyday life.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 Leonard Perlmutter<\/span><\/p>\n

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119. You may think that only you are a prisoner, but other people are also prisoners. You are in a small prison, but others are in the big prison outside. When will they be released? Think that you are a yogi and that you are pursuing your sadhana in this particular place and at this particular moment. Immediately you will experience great joy. If you change your understanding, you will be free in a minute.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 Baba Muktananda<\/span><\/p>\n

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120. Mountain pose teaches us, literally, how to stand on our own two feet\u2026. teaching us to root ourselves into the earth\u2026. Our bodies become a connection between heaven and earth.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 Carol Krucoff<\/span><\/p>\n

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121. The attitude of gratitude is the highest yoga.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 Yogi Bhajan<\/span><\/p>\n

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122. Yoga is not a religion. It is a science, science of well-being, science of youthfulness, science of integrating body, mind and soul.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 Amit Ray<\/span><\/p>\n

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123. Yoga is 99 percent practice and one percent theory.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 Sri Pattabhi Jois<\/span><\/p>\n

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124. Yoga is the practice of quieting the mind.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 Patanjali<\/span><\/p>\n

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125. What yoga philosophy and all the great Buddhist teachings tell us is that solidity is a creation of the ordinary mind and that there never was anything permanent to begin with that we could hold on to. Life would be much easier and substantially less painful if we lived with the knowledge of impermanence as the only constant.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 Donna Farhi<\/span><\/p>\n

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126. Everyone has in him something divine, something his own, a chance of perfection and strength in however small a sphere which God offers him to take or refuse. The task is to find it, develop it & use it. The chief aim of education should be to help the growing soul to draw out that in itself which is best and make it perfect for a noble use.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 Sri Aurobindo<\/span><\/p>\n

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127. If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 Jack Kornfield<\/span><\/p>\n

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128. Yoga accepts. Yoga gives.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 April Vallei<\/span><\/p>\n

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129. Every waking moment we talk to ourselves about the things we experience. Our self-talk, the thoughts we communicate to ourselves, in turn control the way we feel and act.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 John Lembo<\/span><\/p>\n

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130. Habits allow us to not think about what we\u2019re doing . . . giving us the illusion of ease. When we are under the illusion of ease, not thinking about what we\u2019re doing. Breathing the same old way, moving the same old way, thinking the same old way we check out of the present, out of happiness itself.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 Alex Levin<\/span><\/p>\n

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131. This world is your body. This world is a great school, This world is your silent teacher.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 Swami Sivananda<\/span><\/p>\n

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132. All I\u2019m saying is that to liberate the potential of your mind, body and soul, you must first expand your imagination. You see, things are always created twice: first in the workshop of the mind and then, and only then, in reality. I call this process \u2018blueprinting\u2019 because anything you create in your outer world began as a simple blueprint in your inner world.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 Robin Sharma<\/span><\/p>\n

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133. Basketball is an endurance sport, and you have to learn to control your breath; that\u2019s the essence of yoga, too. So, I consciously began using yoga techniques in my practice and playing. I think yoga helped reduce the number and severity of injuries I suffered. As preventative medicine, it\u2019s unequaled.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 Kareem Abdul Jabbar<\/span><\/p>\n

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134. The five points of yama, together with the five points of niyama, remind us of the Ten Commandments of the Christtian and Jewish faiths, as well as of the ten virtues of Buddhism. In fact, there is no religion without these moral or ethical codes. All spiritual life should be based on these things. They are the foundation stones without which we can never build anything lasting.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 Swami Satchidananda<\/span><\/p>\n

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135. Yoga is the fountain of youth. You\u2019re only as young as your spine is flexible.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 Bob Harper<\/span><\/p>\n

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136. For those wounded by civilization, yoga is the most healing salve.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 T. Guillemets<\/span><\/p>\n

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137. Inhale, and God approaches you. Hold the inhalation, and God remains with you. Exhale, and you approach God. Hold the exhalation, and surrender to God.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 Krishnamacharya<\/span><\/p>\n

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138. The Self in you is the same as the Self Universal. Whatever powers are manifested throughout the world, those powers exist in germ, in latency, in you\u2026 If you realize the unity of the Self amid the diversities of the Not-Self, then Yoga Will not seem an impossible thing to you.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 Annie Wood Besant<\/span><\/p>\n

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139. 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.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 Hatha Yoga Pradipika<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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140. Undisturbed calmness of mind is attained by cultivating friendliness toward the happy, compassion for the unhappy, delight in the virtuous, and indifference toward the wicked.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 Pata\u00f1jali<\/span><\/p>\n

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141. Yoga practice can make us more and more sensitive to subtler and subtler sensations in the body. Paying attention to and staying with finer and finer sensations within the body is one of the surest ways to steady the wandering mind.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 Ravi Ravindra<\/span><\/p>\n

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142. A person experiences life as something separated from the rest \u2013 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.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 Albert Einstein<\/span><\/p>\n

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143. The practice of Yoga brings us face to face with the extraordinary complexity of our own being.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 Sri Aurobindo<\/span><\/p>\n

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144. Do your practice and all is coming.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 Sri Pattabhi Jois<\/span><\/p>\n

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145. Feel good, be good, and do good.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 Yogi Bhajan<\/span><\/p>\n

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146. Everything is sorrow for the wise.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 Pata\u00f1jali<\/span><\/p>\n

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147. When you inhale, you are taking the strength from God. When you exhale, it represents the service you are giving to the world.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 B. K. S. Iyengar<\/span><\/p>\n

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148. The meaning of our self is not to be found in its separateness from God and others, but in the ceaseless realization of yoga, of union.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 Rabindranath Tagore<\/span><\/p>\n

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149. Yoga, an ancient but perfect science, deals with the evolution of humanity. This evolution includes all aspects of one\u2019s being, from bodily health to self realization. Yoga means union \u2013 the union of body with consciousness and consciousness with the soul. Yoga cultivates the ways of maintaining a balanced attitude in day to day life and endows skill in the performance of one\u2019s actions.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 B.K.S. Iyengar<\/span><\/p>\n

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150. Vogue and Self are putting out the message of yoginis as buff and perfect. If you start doing yoga for those reasons, fine. Most people get beyond that and see that it\u2019s much, much more.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 Patricia Walden<\/span><\/p>\n

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151. For me, yoga is not just a workout \u2013 it\u2019s about working on yourself.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 Mary Glover<\/span><\/p>\n

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152. By embracing your mother wound as your yoga, you transform what has been a hindrance in your life into a teacher of the heart.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 Phillip Moffitt<\/span><\/p>\n

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153. Don\u2019t move the way fear makes you move. Move the way love makes you move. Move the way joy makes you move.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 Osho<\/span><\/p>\n

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154. True yoga is not about the shape of your body, but the shape of your life. Yoga is not to be performed; yoga is to be lived. Yoga doesn\u2019t care about what you have been; yoga cares about the person you are becoming. Yoga is designed for a vast and profound purpose, and for it to be truly called yoga, its essence must be embodied.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 Aadil Palkhivala<\/span><\/p>\n

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155. Yoga is the cessation of the movements of the mind. Then there is abiding in the Seer\u2019s own form.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 Pata\u00f1jali<\/span><\/p>\n

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156. Penetration of our mind is our goal, but in the beginning, to set things in motion, there is no substitute for sweat.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 B. K. S. Iyengar<\/span><\/p>\n

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157. Meditation is a way for nourishing and blossoming the divinity within you.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 Amit Ray<\/span><\/p>\n

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158. True meditation is about being fully present with everything that is\u2013including discomfort and challenges. It is not an escape from life.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 Craig Hamilton<\/span><\/p>\n

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159. Yoga is not just repetition of few postures \u2013 it is more about the exploration and discovery of the subtle energies of life.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 Amit Ray<\/span><\/p>\n

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160. Inhale the future. Exhale the past. \u2013 Unknown<\/span><\/p>\n

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161. Most people have no idea how good their body is designed to feel.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 Kevin Trudeau<\/span><\/p>\n

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162. That\u2019s why it\u2019s called a practice. We have to practice a practice if it is to be of value.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 Peace Pilgrim<\/span><\/p>\n

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163. Yoga exists in the world because everything is linked.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 Desikashar<\/span><\/p>\n

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164. Calming the mind is yoga. Not just standing on the head.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 Swami Satchidananda<\/span><\/p>\n

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165. Yoga is the fountain of youth. You\u2019re only as young as your spine is flexible.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 Bob Harper<\/span><\/p>\n

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166. Yoga is invigoration in relaxation. Freedom in routine. Confidence through self-control. The energy within and energy without.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 Ymber Delecto<\/span><\/p>\n

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167. A flower does not think of competing to the flower next to it. It just blooms.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 Zen Shin<\/span><\/p>\n

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168. The study of asana is not about mastering posture. It\u2019s about using posture to understand and transform yourself.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 B.K.S Iyengar<\/span><\/p>\n

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169. There is always room for change but you have to be open to that change.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 Kathryn Budig<\/span><\/p>\n

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Don’t forget to share your Favorite quote with others.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Read also: The 14 types of yoga to choose from<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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