Even the most powerful, beneficial acts such as yoga and meditation take discipline to get started, and stay on track.
Use these insights from the masters to maintain motivation and wisdom in your daily practice.
“In truth yoga doesn’t take time – it gives time.” Ganga White
“The pose begins when you want to leave it.” B.K.S Iyengar
“Meditation brings wisdom; lack of meditation leaves ignorance. Know well what leads you forward and what holds you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom.” ― The Buddha
“Saying you’re not flexible enough for yoga is like saying you’re too dirty for a bath.” Unknown
“All progress takes place outside of the comfort zone.” Michael John Bobak
“Don’t look back, you’re not going that way.” Mary Engelbreit
“Sit still. Stop thinking.” Aleister Crowley
“We generally see that for which we look.” Yogi Ramacharaka – A Series of Lessons in Raja Yoga
“The secret of success is to try always to improve yourself no matter where you are or what your position. Learn all you can. Don’t see how little you can do, but how much you can do.” Theron Q. Dumont – The Power of Concentration
“Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” George Bernard Shaw
“The body is your temple. Keep it pure and clean for the soul to reside in.” B.K.S Iyengar
”One foot cannot stand on two boats.” Chinese Proverb
“Why do you stay in prison when the door is so wide open?” RUMI
“Growth is never by mere chance. It is the result of forces aligning together.” James Cash Penney
“Success doesn’t come from what you do occasionally, it comes from what you do consistently.” Marie Forleo
“The temptation to quit will be strongest right before you’re about to succeed.” Chinese Proverb
“Yoga is a light, which once lit will never dim. The better your practice, the brighter your flame.” B.K.S Iyengar
“The body benefits from movement, and the mind benefits from stillness.” Sakyong Mipham
“Yoga is invigoration in relaxation. Freedom in routine. Confidence through self-control. Energy within and energy without.” Ymber Delecto
“Yoga adds years to your life, and life to your years.” Alan Finger
“Meditation can help us embrace our worries, our fear, our anger; and that is very healing. We let our own natural capacity of healing do the work.” Thich Nhat Hanh
“Even in this season of change, be brave enough to be you.” Dhiman
”Yoga is the fountain of youth. You’re only as young as your spine is flexible.” Bob Harper
“When breath control is correct, mind control is possible.” Pattabhi Jois
“Yoga is not about self-improvement, it’s about self-acceptance.” ― Gurmukh Kaur Khalsa
“You are either Now Here or Nowhere.” Baron Baptiste
“Be where you are, not where you think you should be.” Unknown
“You will always grow through what you go through.” Tyrese Gibson
You can totally do this! – THE UNIVERSE
“The past does not equal the future.” Tony Robbins
“Yoga is a mirror to look at ourselves from within.” B.K.S Iyengar
“All things are difficult before they are easy.” Thomas Fuller
“You don’t overcome challenges by making them smaller but by making yourself bigger.” John C Maxwell
“The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.” Ben Stein
“Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.” The
“True happiness is to learn to live beyond imperfections.” Unknown
“You are never too old to set another goal or dream a new dream.” C.S. Lewis
“Deep breaths are like little love notes to your body.” Unknown
What you think, you can become.
“The yoga pose you avoid the most you need the most.” B.K.S Iyengar
“The whole effort of the spiritual process is to break the boundaries you have drawn for yourself and experience the immensity that you are. The aim is to unshackle yourself from the limited identity you have forged, as a result of your own ignorance, and live the way the Creator made you—utterly blissful and infinitely responsible.” Sadhguru – Inner Engineering, A Yogi’s Guide To Joy
“The only time you fail is when you fall down and stay down.” Stephen Richards
“Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.” Tony Robbins
“A human is not a being; he is a becoming. He is an ongoing process – a possibility. For this possibility to be made use of, there is a whole system of understanding the mechanics of how this life functions and what we can do with it, which we refer to as yoga.” Sadhguru
“Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.” RUMI
“You are what you believe in. You become that which you believe you can become.” ― The
“Mere philosophy will not satisfy us. We cannot reach the goal by mere words alone. Without practice, nothing can be achieved.” Sri S. Satchidananda, The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali
“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
“Balancing in yoga and life is a reflection of our inner state.” Shiva Rea
