Favorite Quotes
“In the practice of Yoga, one can emphasize the body, the mind or the self - and hence the effort can never be fruitless. ~ T. Krishnamacharya
“When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.” ― Jimi Hendrix
"Spirituality is science we just don't understand, yet." ~12 Monkeys, TV Series
"When the truth is known ignorance cannot be, when the mind is pure there is no disease, when the breath is mastered there is no death, therefore, surrender to Yoga."
~ Sri T. Krishnamacharya
"Be like water, my friend."
~Bruce Lee
"Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do."
~ Bruce Lee
"The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others."
~ Mahatma Gandhi
"Be the change you want to see in the world."
~Mahatma Gandhi
"Practice without knowledge is blind. Knowledge without practice is futile."
~Sri T Krishnamacharya
"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."
~unknown
“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.”
~ Sri K. Pattabhi Jois
"Watch your thoughts; they become words.
Watch your words; they become actions.
Watch your actions; they become habits.
Watch your habits; they become character.
Watch your character; for it becomes your destiny."
~Upanishads
"Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment".
~Buddha
"All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think we become."
~Buddha
"Health is wealth. Peace of mind is happiness. Yoga shows the way."
~Swami Vishnu Devananda
"Laugh as much as you breath and love as long as you live."
~Anonymous
"We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give."
~Winston Churchill
"And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years."
~Abraham Lincoln
"Worrying about something is like paying interest on a debt you don't even know you owe."
~Mark Twain
"One of the most beautiful compensations of this life is that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself."
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The smallest good deed is better than the greatest intention."
~Anonymous
"The strength of a tree lies in it's ability to bend."
~Zen Proverb
"Fall with awareness and acceptance."
~Bryan Kest
“If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.”
~Jack Kornfield
"Man is a creature of habits. When you do yoga, you unlearn your habits."
~Bharat Thakur
"Breathe and you dwell in the here and now, breath and you see impermanence is life."
~Thich Nhat Hanh
"Yoga is like music. The rhythm of the body, the melody of the mind and the harmony of the soul create the symphony of life."
~BKS Iyengar
"Half an orange tastes as sweet as a whole one."
~Chinese Proverb
"I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand."
~Confucius
"If you want to become whole, let yourself be partial.
If you want to become straight, let yourself be crooked.
If you want to become full, let yourself be empty.
If you want to be reborn, let yourself die.
If you want to be given everything, give everything up."
~Tao Te Ching
"We have never arrived. We are in a constant state of becoming."
~Bob Dylan
"A windmill's true power is revealed only when it faces the wind; a person's only when he faces adversity."
~Zen Proverb
"Eat less, taste more."
~Chinese Proverb
"Mind like a parachute - functions best when open!"
~Charlie Chan
"Love what you do, do what you love."
~Zen Proverb
"May we live like the lotus, at home in muddy water."
~Buddha
"We must be the change we wish to see in the world."
~Gandhi
"When we dance, the journey itself is the point, as when we play music, the playing itself is the point.
Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment."
~Alan Watts
"If you can walk you can dance, if you can talk you can sing."
~Kenyan Proverb
"If you can breath you can do yoga."
~David Beadle
"You are what you love, not what loves you."
~Zen Proverb
"We spend the early years feeding our brains with information and the latter half trying not to think about it all."
~George Carlin
"Don't believe everything you think."
~Jenny Bogart
"Don't push the river, it flows by itself."
~Collective Wisdom
"Yoga ia a way of moving into stillness in order to experience the truth of who you are."
~Erich Schiffmann
"Buddhist, Christian, Muslim, Jew,
May joy and peace expand in you,
And light the world so all can see,
The simple truth which sets us free,
The song the angels sing above,
That God is one,
And God is love."
~Anonymous
"Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity."
~Martin Luther King Jr.
"A sorrow shared is a sorrow divided. A joy shared is a joy multiplied."
~Anonymous
"I've learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way he/she handles these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage and tangled Christmas tree lights.
I've learned that making a 'living' is not the same thing as 'making a life'.
I've learned that whenever I decide something with an open heart, I usually make the right decision.
I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw some things back."
~Maya Angelou
"Let go, or be dragged."
~Zen Proverb
"Without going outside, you may know the whole world,
Without looking through the window, you may see the ways of heaven.
The farther you go, the less you know.
Thus the sage knows without traveling;
He sees without looking;
He works without doing."
~Tao Te Ching, by Lao Tsu
"Dance like there's nobody watching
Love like you'll never get hurt
Sing like there's nobody listening
Live like it's heaven on earth
And speak from the heart to be heard."
~William W. Purkey
"When the winds of change blow, some people build walls and others build windmills."
~Chinese Proverb
“It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.”
~J Krishnamurti
“When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace."
~Jimmy Hendrix
"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage."
~Lao Tzu
"Three things cannot be hidden; the sun, the moon and the truth."
~Buddha
“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.” ~ Krishnamacharya
”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.” ~ Gandhi
“One becomes firmly established in practice only after attending to it for a long time, without interruption and with an attitude of devotion.” ~ Yoga Sutra I.14
“Samskara saksat karanat purvajati jnanam. Through sustained focus and meditation on our patterns, habits, and conditioning, we gain knowledge and understanding of our past and how we can change the patterns that aren’t serving us to live more freely and fully.” ~ Yoga Sutra III.18
“The attitude of gratitude is the highest yoga.” ~ Yogi Bhajan
“For me, yoga is not just a workout – it’s about working on yourself.” ~ Mary Glover
“Yoga teaches us to cure what need not be endured and endure what cannot be cured.” ~ B.K.S. Iyengar
“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
”Yoga is the perfect opportunity to be curious about who you are.” ~ Jason Crandell
“ Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have
built.” ~ Rumi
“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
”In the darkness, I am light.”
“Everyone can do Ashtanga. Except lazy people.” Sharath Jois
“Yoga takes you into the present moment, the only place where life exists.”
“Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.”
~Viktor E. Frankl
“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.” ~ Yoga Sutras
“In stillness all conflict must end.” ~ Phillip Urso
”To perform every action artfully is yoga.” ~ Swami Kripalu
”Be at least as interested in what goes on inside you as what happens outside. If you get the inside right, the outside will fall into place.” ~ Eckhart Tolle
“Don’t forget to breathe!”
”The more we sweat in peace the less we bleed in war.” ~ Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
“A photographer gets people to pose for him. A yoga instructor gets people to pose for themselves.” ~ Jay Fields
“Loka Samasta Sukhino Bhavantu. May all beings everywhere be happy and free."
“The most important pieces of equipment you need for doing yoga are your body and your mind.” ~ Rodney Yee
“Stirum sukham asanam. Seated posture should be steady and comfortable.” ~ Yoga Sutra
“When you inhale, you are taking the strength from God. When you exhale, it represents the service you are giving to the world.” ~ B.K.S. Iyengar
“When we can remove the masks of our own making, then the one who has been longing to be seen sees itself unbounded, just as it is.”
“You cannot always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside.”
“The pose begins when you want to leave it.”
“The wisdom obtained in the higher states of consciousness is different from that obtained by inference and testimony as it refers to particulars.” ~ Yoga Sutra
“Let your practice be a celebration of life” ~ Seido lee deBarros
“Ashtanga yoga is 99 percent practice, one percent theory.” ~ Sri K. Pattabhi Jois
“Remember, it doesn’t matter how deep into a posture you go – what does matter is who you are when you get there.” ~ Max Strom
“Make an attitude to be in gratitude, you will find the whole Universe will come to you.” ~ Yogi Bhajan
“You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” ~ Gandhi
“Any belief, whatever it is, is counterproductive in the context of the practice of yoga. One holds a belief instead of knowing. For example, you wouldn’t say you believe in your right ear, since you know your ear, no belief is required. Believing always excludes knowing. When jnana (supreme knowledge) comes through the practice of yoga, you will know. Do not be satisfied with believing.” ~ Gregor Maehle
“First month paining, second month tired, third month flying.” ~ Sharath Jois
“Namaste!”
“Submit to a daily practice. Your loyalty to that is a ring at the door. Keep knocking, and eventually the joy inside will look out to see who is there.”
“Practice and all is coming.” ~ Sri K. Pattabhi Jois
“The world is the gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.” ~ Swami Vivekananda
“Desire, ask, believe, receive.” ~ Stella Terrill Mann
“Blessed are the flexible, for they shall not be bent out of shape.”
"When the truth is known ignorance cannot be, when the mind is pure there is no disease, when the breath is mastered there is no death, therefore, surrender to Yoga."
~ Sri T. Krishnamacharya
"Be like water, my friend."
~Bruce Lee
"Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do."
~ Bruce Lee
"The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others."
~ Mahatma Gandhi
"Be the change you want to see in the world."
~Mahatma Gandhi
"Practice without knowledge is blind. Knowledge without practice is futile."
~Sri T Krishnamacharya
"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."
~unknown
“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.”
~ Sri K. Pattabhi Jois
"Watch your thoughts; they become words.
Watch your words; they become actions.
Watch your actions; they become habits.
Watch your habits; they become character.
Watch your character; for it becomes your destiny."
~Upanishads
"Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment".
~Buddha
"All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think we become."
~Buddha
"Health is wealth. Peace of mind is happiness. Yoga shows the way."
~Swami Vishnu Devananda
"Laugh as much as you breath and love as long as you live."
~Anonymous
"We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give."
~Winston Churchill
"And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years."
~Abraham Lincoln
"Worrying about something is like paying interest on a debt you don't even know you owe."
~Mark Twain
"One of the most beautiful compensations of this life is that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself."
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The smallest good deed is better than the greatest intention."
~Anonymous
"The strength of a tree lies in it's ability to bend."
~Zen Proverb
"Fall with awareness and acceptance."
~Bryan Kest
“If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.”
~Jack Kornfield
"Man is a creature of habits. When you do yoga, you unlearn your habits."
~Bharat Thakur
"Breathe and you dwell in the here and now, breath and you see impermanence is life."
~Thich Nhat Hanh
"Yoga is like music. The rhythm of the body, the melody of the mind and the harmony of the soul create the symphony of life."
~BKS Iyengar
"Half an orange tastes as sweet as a whole one."
~Chinese Proverb
"I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand."
~Confucius
"If you want to become whole, let yourself be partial.
If you want to become straight, let yourself be crooked.
If you want to become full, let yourself be empty.
If you want to be reborn, let yourself die.
If you want to be given everything, give everything up."
~Tao Te Ching
"We have never arrived. We are in a constant state of becoming."
~Bob Dylan
"A windmill's true power is revealed only when it faces the wind; a person's only when he faces adversity."
~Zen Proverb
"Eat less, taste more."
~Chinese Proverb
"Mind like a parachute - functions best when open!"
~Charlie Chan
"Love what you do, do what you love."
~Zen Proverb
"May we live like the lotus, at home in muddy water."
~Buddha
"We must be the change we wish to see in the world."
~Gandhi
"When we dance, the journey itself is the point, as when we play music, the playing itself is the point.
Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment."
~Alan Watts
"If you can walk you can dance, if you can talk you can sing."
~Kenyan Proverb
"If you can breath you can do yoga."
~David Beadle
"You are what you love, not what loves you."
~Zen Proverb
"We spend the early years feeding our brains with information and the latter half trying not to think about it all."
~George Carlin
"Don't believe everything you think."
~Jenny Bogart
"Don't push the river, it flows by itself."
~Collective Wisdom
"Yoga ia a way of moving into stillness in order to experience the truth of who you are."
~Erich Schiffmann
"Buddhist, Christian, Muslim, Jew,
May joy and peace expand in you,
And light the world so all can see,
The simple truth which sets us free,
The song the angels sing above,
That God is one,
And God is love."
~Anonymous
"Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity."
~Martin Luther King Jr.
"A sorrow shared is a sorrow divided. A joy shared is a joy multiplied."
~Anonymous
"I've learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way he/she handles these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage and tangled Christmas tree lights.
I've learned that making a 'living' is not the same thing as 'making a life'.
I've learned that whenever I decide something with an open heart, I usually make the right decision.
I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw some things back."
~Maya Angelou
"Let go, or be dragged."
~Zen Proverb
"Without going outside, you may know the whole world,
Without looking through the window, you may see the ways of heaven.
The farther you go, the less you know.
Thus the sage knows without traveling;
He sees without looking;
He works without doing."
~Tao Te Ching, by Lao Tsu
"Dance like there's nobody watching
Love like you'll never get hurt
Sing like there's nobody listening
Live like it's heaven on earth
And speak from the heart to be heard."
~William W. Purkey
"When the winds of change blow, some people build walls and others build windmills."
~Chinese Proverb
“It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.”
~J Krishnamurti
“When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace."
~Jimmy Hendrix
"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage."
~Lao Tzu
"Three things cannot be hidden; the sun, the moon and the truth."
~Buddha
“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.” ~ Krishnamacharya
”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.” ~ Gandhi
“One becomes firmly established in practice only after attending to it for a long time, without interruption and with an attitude of devotion.” ~ Yoga Sutra I.14
“Samskara saksat karanat purvajati jnanam. Through sustained focus and meditation on our patterns, habits, and conditioning, we gain knowledge and understanding of our past and how we can change the patterns that aren’t serving us to live more freely and fully.” ~ Yoga Sutra III.18
“The attitude of gratitude is the highest yoga.” ~ Yogi Bhajan
“For me, yoga is not just a workout – it’s about working on yourself.” ~ Mary Glover
“Yoga teaches us to cure what need not be endured and endure what cannot be cured.” ~ B.K.S. Iyengar
“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
”Yoga is the perfect opportunity to be curious about who you are.” ~ Jason Crandell
“ Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have
built.” ~ Rumi
“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
”In the darkness, I am light.”
“Everyone can do Ashtanga. Except lazy people.” Sharath Jois
“Yoga takes you into the present moment, the only place where life exists.”
“Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.”
~Viktor E. Frankl
“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.” ~ Yoga Sutras
“In stillness all conflict must end.” ~ Phillip Urso
”To perform every action artfully is yoga.” ~ Swami Kripalu
”Be at least as interested in what goes on inside you as what happens outside. If you get the inside right, the outside will fall into place.” ~ Eckhart Tolle
“Don’t forget to breathe!”
”The more we sweat in peace the less we bleed in war.” ~ Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
“A photographer gets people to pose for him. A yoga instructor gets people to pose for themselves.” ~ Jay Fields
“Loka Samasta Sukhino Bhavantu. May all beings everywhere be happy and free."
“The most important pieces of equipment you need for doing yoga are your body and your mind.” ~ Rodney Yee
“Stirum sukham asanam. Seated posture should be steady and comfortable.” ~ Yoga Sutra
“When you inhale, you are taking the strength from God. When you exhale, it represents the service you are giving to the world.” ~ B.K.S. Iyengar
“When we can remove the masks of our own making, then the one who has been longing to be seen sees itself unbounded, just as it is.”
“You cannot always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside.”
“The pose begins when you want to leave it.”
“The wisdom obtained in the higher states of consciousness is different from that obtained by inference and testimony as it refers to particulars.” ~ Yoga Sutra
“Let your practice be a celebration of life” ~ Seido lee deBarros
“Ashtanga yoga is 99 percent practice, one percent theory.” ~ Sri K. Pattabhi Jois
“Remember, it doesn’t matter how deep into a posture you go – what does matter is who you are when you get there.” ~ Max Strom
“Make an attitude to be in gratitude, you will find the whole Universe will come to you.” ~ Yogi Bhajan
“You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” ~ Gandhi
“Any belief, whatever it is, is counterproductive in the context of the practice of yoga. One holds a belief instead of knowing. For example, you wouldn’t say you believe in your right ear, since you know your ear, no belief is required. Believing always excludes knowing. When jnana (supreme knowledge) comes through the practice of yoga, you will know. Do not be satisfied with believing.” ~ Gregor Maehle
“First month paining, second month tired, third month flying.” ~ Sharath Jois
“Namaste!”
“Submit to a daily practice. Your loyalty to that is a ring at the door. Keep knocking, and eventually the joy inside will look out to see who is there.”
“Practice and all is coming.” ~ Sri K. Pattabhi Jois
“The world is the gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.” ~ Swami Vivekananda
“Desire, ask, believe, receive.” ~ Stella Terrill Mann
“Blessed are the flexible, for they shall not be bent out of shape.”
