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“Every moment is a fresh beginning” — T.S Eliot. One thing I love about yoga quotes is they allow you to step off the mat and take your yoga practice with you wherever you go. Especially when you’re unable to sneak in a revitalizing yoga flow, or practice a steamy hot yoga sequence because its a travel day.
On those days, the next best things are — empowering yoga quotes, or motivational sayings. In fact, here’s a curated list with inspiring quotes to boost your mood and get the juices flowing.
Instead of doing yoga, gently shifting into various yoga positions and poses, I find myself reading yoga day quotes while applying generous amounts of ginger oil to set the spicy yet invigorating mood for the day. Embodying this quote from the Bhagavad Gita, “Yoga is the journey of the self, through the self, to the self.“
Below you’ll find some of my favorite inspirational quotes, meant to uplift and enliven your well-being. Take them with you on the road to boost your inner peace and wellness while traveling.
There are quotes about how inner peace begins, quotes about love and mindfulness, how to find strength from yoga and much more. Share these with your yoga buddies, family members or use them to cultivate your own practice at the present moment.
However, if you find some time to hop on the mat for a quick yoga practice, here’s a powerful yoga routine playlist or bodyweight workout that’s excellent for non-stop travelers and busy souls.
Feel free to jump ahead!
Yoga practice quotes
- Yoga is the practice of quieting the mind.” ― Patanjali
- Yoga is 99 percent practice and one percent theory.” ― Sri Pattabhi Jois
- You owe it to yourself to be yourself” ― Yogi Bhajan
- You cannot do yoga. Yoga is your natural state. What you can do are yoga exercises, which may reveal to you where you are resisting your natural state.” ― Sharon Gannon
- Yoga is the art work of awareness on the canvas of body, mind, and soul.” ― Amit Ray
- Chasing after the world brings chaos. Allowing it all to come to me, brings peace.” ― Zen Gatha
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Inspirational yoga quotes
- Every moment is a fresh beginning.” ― T.S. Eliot
- Yoga is not about self-improvement, it’s about self-acceptance.” ― Gurmukh kaur khalsa
- Yoga is not just repetition of few postures, it is more about the exploration and discovery of the subtle energies of life” ― Amit Ray
- The best thing you could do is master the chaos in you. You are not thrown into the fire, you are the fire.” ― Mama Indigo
- As long as we’re breathing, we have a chance to start over and build a stable future.” ― Kim Ha Campbell
- 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.” ― Ravi Ravindra
- When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.” ― Lao Tzu
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Yoga quotes on happiness
- Yoga began with the first person wanting to be healthy and happy all the time.” ― Sri Swami Satchidananda
- Yoga is the space where flower blossoms.” ― Amit Ray
- Make yourself so happy so that when others look at you they become happy too.” ― Yogi Bhajan
- Yoga is a dance between control and surrender – between pushing and letting go – and when to push and when to let go becomes part of the creative process, part of the open-ended exploration of your being.” ― Joel Kramer
- A flower does not think of competing with the flower next to it. It just blooms.” ― Zen Shin
- Yoga is when every cell in the body sings the song of the soul.” ― B.K.S. Iyengar
Yoga quotes about love
- Your soul is your best friend. Treat it with care, nurture it with growth, feed it with love.” ― Ashourina Yalda
- Yoga is the perfect opportunity to be curious about who you are.” ― Jason Crandell
- So many people… seem to struggle with being kind to themselves. This is really sad. You see, if you don’t have genuine love and kindness toward yourself, how can you extend these to others?” ― Dalai Lama
- Have only love in your heart for others. The more you see the good in them, the more you will establish good in yourself.” ― Paramahansa Yogananda
- Remember the emphasis on the heart. The mind lives in doubt and the heart lives in trust. When you trust, suddenly you become centered.” ― Osho
- If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.” ― Jack Kornfield
- Don’t move the way fear makes you move. Move the way love makes you move. Move the way joy makes you move.” ― Osho
- You have to be you and that can only happen if you love yourself.” ― Yogi Bhajan
Spiritual practice quotes
- Yoga is the journey of the self, through the self, to the self.” ― The Bhagavad Gita
- 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.”― Bhagavad Gita
- 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
- When you listen to yourself, everything comes naturally. It comes from inside, like a kind of will to do something. Try to be sensitive. That is yoga.” ― Petri Räisänen
- I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul.” ― Maya Angelou
- Your body exists in the past and your mind exists in the future. In yoga, they come together in the present.” ― B.K.S.Iyengar
- Crying is one of the highest devotional songs. One who knows crying, knows spiritual practice. If you can with a pure heart, nothing else compares to such a prayer. Crying includes all the principles of Yoga.” ― Kripalvanandji
- Be the radiator of peace. Go to the center of your inner being and radiate peace in every direction. Our wings are small but the ripples of the heart are infinite.” ― Amit Ray, Walking the Path of Compassion
Yoga quotes about life
- The attitude of gratitude is the highest yoga.” ― Yogi Bhajan
- Yoga begins right where I am – not where I was yesterday or where I long to be.” ― Linda Sparrowe
- Yoga does not just change the way we see things, it transforms the person who sees.” ― B.K.S Iyengar
- Life is not always perfect. Like a road, it has many bends, ups and downs, but that’s its beauty” ― Amit Ray
- When you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others.” ― Peace Pilgrim
- If I must start somewhere, right here and now is the best place imaginable.” ― Richelle E. Goodrich
- Every day, bring some flowers to your life. Every day bring some blessings in someone’s life.” ― Amit Ray
- Change only happens in the present moment. The past is already done. The future is just energy and intention.” ― Kino MacGregor
Yoga quotes about the mind
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- Yoga is possible for anybody who really wants it. Yoga is universal…. But don’t approach yoga with a business mind looking for worldly gain.” ― Sri Pattabhi Jois
- The true purpose of yoga is to discover that aspect of your being that can never be lost.” ― Deepak Chopra
- Mindfulness is the path of beautification – beautify your words, beautify your breath, beautify your steps, beautify your environment – life will be beautiful. ― Amit Ray, Mindfulness
- What you think, you become.” ― Buddha
- Yoga is a method to come to a non-dreaming mind. Yoga is the science to be in the here and now.” ― Osho
- When breath control is correct, mind control is possible.” ― Pattabhi Jois
- Learn to live in the light of your soul. Life deserves full expression.” ― Amit Ray, Meditation
Funny yoga quotes
Because I’m a firm believer that laughter is medicine, here’s over 20 hilarious fitness workout quotes to keep the laughter rolling.
- Yoga pants. Because jeans are stressful and you don’t need that in your life.” ― Unknown
- It’s funny when people think ‘yoga people’ are supposed to be calm. No. We’re all here because we’re nuts!”― Unknown
- 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’m looking out of my third eye and everything that I’m supposed to be doing. It’s amazing what comes up, when you sit in that silence. Mama keeps whites bright like the sunlight, Mama’s got the magic of Clorox.” ― Ellen DeGeneres
- Yoga is not about tightening your ass. It’s about getting your head out of it.” ― Eric Paskel
- If you fall, I’ll be there. Love, your Yoga Mat.” ― Unknown
- Please grant me coffee to change the things I can, and yoga to accept the things I can’t.” ― Unknown
Yoga quotes about strength
- Most people have no idea how good their body is designed to feel.” — Kevin Trudeau
- The pose begins when you want to leave it.” — Unknown
- The yoga pose you avoid the most you need the most.” — Unknown
- The body benefits from movement, and the mind benefits from stillness” — Sakyong Mipham
- It doesn’t matter what it looks like; it matters what it feels like.” — Bryan Kest
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Yoga sayings
- Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.” ― Maya Angelou
- The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.”― Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Expect nothing and appreciate everything” ― Unknown
- Travel light, live light, spread the light, be the light.” ― Yogi Bhajan
- The quality of our breath expresses our inner feelings.” ― T.K.V. Desikachar
- To greet a lovely morning, we must leave the night behind.” ― Tarang Sinha
Quotes for Instagram
- Just breathe.”
- Inhale the future, exhale the past.” — Unknown
- It’s not life that matters, it’s the courage you bring to it.” — Yogi Bhajan
- Keep your face to the sun and you will never see the shadows.” ― Unknown
- I bend so I don’t break.” ― Unknown
Do you have a favorite yoga quote or yoga caption? I’d love to hear what quotes bring you inner peace, feel free to comment down below.
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