International Day of Yoga is celebrated on 21 June annually. Yoga provides a holistic approach to health and well-being, it aims at building better individual lifestyles. Below are some motivational quotes to encourage you to give Yoga a try:
1- “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't transcend our lives; we return to the life we left behind in the hopes of something better.”
- Donna Farhi
2- "Through the practices of yoga, we discover that concern for the happiness and well being of others, including animals, must be an essential part of our own quest for happiness and well being. The fork can be a powerful weapon of mass destruction or a tool to create peace on Earth."
- Sharon Gannon
3- "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
4- "A photographer gets people to pose for him. A yoga instructor gets people to pose for themselves."
- T. Guillemets
5- "Yoga has a sly, clever way of short circuiting the mental patterns that cause anxiety."
- Baxter Bell
6- "Yoga teaches us to cure what need not be endured and endure what cannot be cured."
- B.K.S. Iyengar
7- "Yoga, an ancient but perfect science, deals with the evolution of humanity. This evolution includes all aspects of one's being, from bodily health to self realization. Yoga means union - 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's actions."
- B.K.S. Iyengar
8- "Yoga is a light, which once lit, will never dim. The better your practice, the brighter the flame."
- B.K.S. Iyengar
9- "The yoga mat is a good place to turn when talk therapy and antidepressants aren't enough."
- Amy Weintraub
10- "Yoga is the fountain of youth. You're only as young as your spine is flexible."
- Bob Harper
11- "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."
36- "Your mind is your instrument. Learn to be its master and not its slave."
39- "Yoga is a way to freedom. By its constant practice, we can free ourselves from fear, anguish and loneliness."
40- "Yoga is almost like music in a way; there's no end to it."
41- "Yoga is the journey of the self, through the self, to the self."
42- “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.”
43- “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’t 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.”
44- “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.”
45- “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.”
46- "Yoga began with the first person wanting to be healthy and happy all the time."
47- "I do yoga so that I can stay flexible enough to kick my own arse if necessary."
50- “The yoga pose that you avoid the most you need the most.”
- Sri Krishna Pattabhi Jois
12- "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
13- "Yoga is 99% practice and 1% theory."
14- "For me, yoga is not just a workout - it's about working on yourself."
- Sri Krishna Pattabhi Jois
14- "For me, yoga is not just a workout - it's about working on yourself."
- Mary Glover
15- "The beauty is that people often come here for the stretch, and leave with a lot more."
16- "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's much, much more."
- Liza Ciano
16- "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's much, much more."
- Patricia Walden
17- "When asked what gift he wanted for his birthday, the yogi replied: I wish no gifts, only presence."
18- "Anyone who practices can obtain success in yoga but not one who is lazy. Constant practice alone is the secret of success."
- Unknown
18- "Anyone who practices can obtain success in yoga but not one who is lazy. Constant practice alone is the secret of success."
- Svatmarama
19- "Yoga is the practice of quieting the mind."
20- "Yoga is the perfect opportunity to be curious about who you are."
- Patanjali
20- "Yoga is the perfect opportunity to be curious about who you are."
- Jason Crandell
21- "Yoga is invigoration in relaxation. Freedom in routine. Confidence through self-control. Energy within and energy without."
- Ymber Delecto
22- "Corpse pose restores life. Dead parts of your being fall away, the ghosts are released."
23- "Yoga accepts. Yoga gives."
- The Quote Garden
23- "Yoga accepts. Yoga gives."
- April Vallei
24- "Tree pose grows confidence."
- The Quote Garden
25- "For those wounded by civilization, yoga is the most healing salve."
- T. Guillemets
26- "Yoga is really trying to liberate us from ... shame about our bodies. To love your body is a very important thing -- I think the health of your mind depends on your being able to love your body."
- Rodney Yee
27- "You can enter yoga, or the path of yoga, only when you are totally frustrated with your own mind as it is. If you are still hoping that you can gain something through your mind, yoga is not for you."
28- "In Karma yoga no effort is ever lost, and there is no harm. Even a little practice of this discipline protects one from great fear of birth and death."
- Osho
28- "In Karma yoga no effort is ever lost, and there is no harm. Even a little practice of this discipline protects one from great fear of birth and death."
- Bhagavad Gita
29- "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."
30- “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.”
- Cybele Tomlinson
30- “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.”
― Amit Ray, Yoga and Vipassana
31- "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.
- Bhagavad Gita
32- "The word yoga comes from Sanskrit, the language of ancient India. It means union, integration, or wholeness. It is an approach to health that promotes the harmonious collaboration of the human being's three components: body, mind, and spirit."
- Stella Weller
33- "Karma yoga is a supreme secret indeed."
- Bhagavad Gita
34- "Plant the seed of meditation and reap the fruit of peace of mind."
35- "Meditation and concentration are the way to a life of serenity."
- Unknown
- Unknown
36- "Your mind is your instrument. Learn to be its master and not its slave."
- Unknown
37- "When calm your mind and your senses, you become conscious of your always present inner self."
- Unknown
38- "Yoga Science is not just a scholarly pursuit. It is a moment by moment and thought by thought practical guide for living."
- Leonard Perlmutter
39- "Yoga is a way to freedom. By its constant practice, we can free ourselves from fear, anguish and loneliness."
- Indra Devi
40- "Yoga is almost like music in a way; there's no end to it."
- Sting
41- "Yoga is the journey of the self, through the self, to the self."
- The Bhagavad Gita
42- “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
43- “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’t 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.”
- Aadil Palkhivala
44- “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
45- “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.”
- Rolf Gates
46- "Yoga began with the first person wanting to be healthy and happy all the time."
–Sri Swami Satchidananda
47- "I do yoga so that I can stay flexible enough to kick my own arse if necessary."
– Betsy Cañas Garmon
48- “Don’t just do something—sit there!”
- Unknown
49- “Yoga has a sly, clever way of short circuiting the mental patterns that cause anxiety.”
- Baxter Bal
50- “The yoga pose that you avoid the most you need the most.”
- Author Unknown
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