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QUOTES ON LIFE

QUOTES ON LIFE

I am a collector.

Every day, all my life, I collect words and good thoughts.

About Yoga. About self-realisation and about transformation.

About freedom. About happiness. About present moment. About Life.

Now, is the time to choose the best and share.

“HAPPINESS…Is an inside job”-Dhyani Mudra

  • “Train yourself to let go..Of everything you fear to lose.” -YODA

  • “When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.”-Lao Tzu

  • “Out of clutter, find simplicity. From discord, find harmony. In the middle of difficulty, lies opportunity.”-Albert Einstein

  • “It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.” -Ursula K. Le Guin

  • “If you move in the present moment, the whole eternity is in your hands.”-Osho

  • “The very best excuse for not doing yoga is… there is no turning back”-Lulemon

  • “Freedom is to be free of attachments, and the main attachment is to the ‘I’ -self.”-Mooji

  • “If something is precious, it will stay forever.”

  • “You only live once, but if you do it right once is enough.”- Mae West

  • “Be who you are, and go the whole way.”-Lao Tzu

  • “I have arrived, I am home. In the here, in the now. I am solid, I am free. In the ultimate, I dwell.”- Thitch Nhat Hanh

  • “Be here now. Be somewhere else later. Is that so complicated?”-David Bader

  • “Just be. Become peace. Be present. Always let go. Never give up.”

  • “The world is nothing but a moment.”-Rumi

  • “In a gentle way, you can shake the world.”- Mahatma Gandhi

  • “What if you let life turn you upside down, so you can learn how to live, right side up?”

  • “Hatha Yoga teaches us to use the body as the bow, asana as the arrow, and the soul the target.”- B.K.S. Iyengar

  • “Yoga is existential, experiential, experimental.”-Osho

  • “When inward tenderness finds the secret hurt, the pain itself will crack the rock and Ah! Let the soul emerge.”-Rumi

  • “Hapiness is not having a lot. Happiness is giving a lot.”-Budha

  • “Listen with the ears of tolerance, see through the eyes of compassion, speak with the language of love.”-Rumi

  • “If it isn’t good, let it die. If it doesn’t die, make it good.”-Ajahn Chah

  • “How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.”-Wayne Dyer

  • “The wound is the place where the Light enters you.”-Rumi

  • “Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling.”-Margaret Lee Runbeck

  • “The country of my true home is in the here and in the now.”-Thich Nhat Hanh

  • “If you are irritated by every rub, how will you be polished?”-Rumi

  • “Get out of your head and get into your heart. Think less, feel more.”-OSHO

  • “Meditating is not a matter of saying i am going to meditate. It is, just for a moment retreating from the need to do anything and instead just be.”-Gangaji

  • “When you possess, you loose.” -Zen saying

  • “Mindfulness is enlightment.”-Thich Nhat Hanh

  • “To cure from suffering, free yourself from attachment.”-Budha

  • “Our fear is not of the unknown, but of letting go of the known”-Jiddhu Krisnamurti

  • “Each morning we are born again, what we do today is what matters the most.”-Budha

  • “A Breath of love can take you all the way to infinity”-Rumi

  • “I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving.”-Oliver Wendell Holmes

  • “Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek but a means by which we arrive at that goal.”-Martin Luther King

  • “There is a way that nature speaks, that land speaks. Most of the time we are simply not patient enough, quiet enough, to pay attention to the story.”- Linda Hogan

  • “To see a world in a grain of sand, And a heaven in a wild flower, Hold infinity in the palm of your hand, An eternity in an hour.”-William Blake

  • “Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.”-Kahlil Gibran

  • “In the end these things matter most: How well did you love? How fully did you live? How deeply did you let go?-Siddhartha Gautama”

  • “To be kind is more important than to be right. Many times what people need is not a brilliant mind that speaks, but a special heart that listens.”

  • “Real freedom comes from being totally okay with whatever inner conditions emerge, rather than total freedom from all unpleasent experience. Maybe we are all closer to inner freedom than we imagine.”

  • “A person once asked Budha, ‘I WANT HAPPINESS”…Budha said, “First remove ‘I’, that is ego, then remove ‘WANT” that is desire, see now you are left with only HAPPINESS…”

  • “The distance between your dreams and reality is called action.”

  • “It feels good to be lost in the right direction.”

  • “Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.”

  • “The obstacle is the path.”-Zen Proverb

  • “Everything is going to be Ok in the end. If it’s not ok, it’s not the end.”

  • “The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure that you seek.”-Joseph Campell

  • “There comes a point in your life, when you realise who really matters, who never did, and who always will.”

  • “Not everyone will understand your journey. That’s fine. It’s not their journey to make sense of. It’s yours.”

  • “We don’t meet people by accident. They are meant to cross our path for a reason.”

  • “Raise your words, not your voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.”-Rumi

  • “Sometimes we have to travel to the edge of ourselves to find our center.”

  • “Freedom is to be free of attachments and the main attachment is to ‘I’-self.’-Mooji

  • “The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are.”-Jim Morrison

  • “Life is too short and unpredictable not to live it exactly as you please.”

  • “Your life is your message to the world. Make sure it’s inspiring.”

  • “This very moment is the perfect teacher, and lucky for us, it is with us wherever we are!”-Pema Chodron

  • “There will always be a reason why you meet people, either you need them to change your life or you are the one that will change theirs.”

  • “The only person you should try to be better than, is the person you were yesterday.”

  • “Wherever you live, is your temple if you treat it like one”-Budha

  • “The tree and I was just there, enjoying ourselves and each other. After sitting for a long time, I turned to the tree, I smiled, and said, ‘I no longer need an answer’.”-Thich Nhat Han

  • “Nothing is more precious than being in the present moment. Fully alive, fully aware.”-Thich Nhat Hanh

  • “It is important to give it all you have while you have the chance.”-Shania Twain

  • “Every heart sings a song incomplete, until another heart whispers back.”-Plato

  • “We are born in one day. We die in one day. We can change in one day. And we can fall in love in one day. Anything can happen in just one day.”

  • “Sometimes, you have to move on without certain people. If they’re meant to be in your life, they’ll catch up.”

  • “The best things in life aren’t things.”

  • “Here is a new spiritual practice for you: don’t take your thoughts so seriously.”-Eckhart Tolle

  • “People will love you. People will hate you. And none of it will have anything to do with you!”photo

  • “The death of the ego will be the beginning of your real life.”

  • “Impermanence-no ego-nirvana.”

  • “Yoga is the state where you are missing nothing.”-Shri Brahmanada Sarasvati

  • “We do not heal the past by dwelling there. We heal the past by living fully in the present.”-Marianne Williamson

  • “There is always a way.”

  • “Nothing has happened in the past; it happened in the Now. Nothing will ever happen in the future; it will happen in the Now.”-Eckhart Tolle

  • “You don’t have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body.”

  • “Sometimes you just have to die a little inside in order to be reborn and rise again as a stronger and wiser version of you.”

  • “Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.”-Gandhi

  • “Religion is for people who are afraid of going to hell. Spirituality is for those who have already been there.”-Vine Deloria

  • “Yoga is a way back home…to our true habitat.”

  • “A life without passion is not a life. It’s merely an existence.”

  • “Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for a while and leave footprints on our hearts. And we are never, ever the same.”

  • “The greatest challenge in life is discovering who you are…The second greatest is being happy with what you find..”

  • “The sun loved the moon so much, he died every night to let her breathe.”

  • “Keep your face always toward the sunshine and shadows will fall behind you.”-Walt Whitman

  • “Give the ones you love wings to fly, roots to come back and reasons to stay.”-Dalai Lama

  • “Inhale LET, exhale GO.”

  • “You are not your story.”

  • “You never know how strong you are, until being strong is the only choice you have.”

  • “Being strong, sometimes means being able to let go.”

  • “All you need is less”

  • “The bird of paradise lands only on the hand that does not grasp.”-Zen proverb

  • “The soul always knows what to do to heal itself. The challenge is to silence the mind.”-Caroline Myss

  • “Sometimes, you have to stand alone, just to make sure you still can.”

  • “Life is simple. Everything happens for you, not to you.”- Bryon Katie

  • “Some days, you just have to create your own sunshine.”

  • “Travel is more than seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.”-Miriam Beard

Photo Credit: Levent Akpulat

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