“When you are practicing, do not just do that for the sake of doing. Learn to reflect while you are practising. Make your mind and brain observe and relearn what you are doing. Doing is mechanical; learning is dynamic.”

Live before you die, so that death is also a lively celebration.

Hard work and humility are essential for spiritual sadhana.

Why think of liberation at some future time? Liberation is in the little things, here and now.

Health begins with firmness in the body, deepens to emotional stability, then leads to intellectual clarity, wisdom and finally the unveiling of the soul.

Ignorance has no beginning, but it has an end. There is a beginning but no end to knowledge.

Yoga is the method by which the restless mind is calmed And the energy directed into constructive channels.

Yoga cultivates the ways of maintaining a balanced attitude in day-to-day life and endows skill in the performance of one’s actions.

Be inspired but not proud.

Yoga is the music of the soul. So do continue, and the gates of the soul will open.

Yoga is the golden key that unlocks the door to peace, tranquility and joy.

Breath is the vehicle of consciousness and so, by its slow measured observation and distribution, we learn to tug our attention away from external desires toward a judicious, intelligent awareness.

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.

The art of teaching is tolerance. Humbleness is the art of learning.

To be dull is easy, to be active requires tremendous work.

If you practice yoga every day with perseverance, you will be able to face the turmoil of life with steadiness and maturity.

The lotus grows in muddy waters but this flower does not show any trace of it: So we have to live in the world.

It is of the essence of virtue that the good is not to be done for the sake of a reward.

The Sabbath is not for the sake of the weekdays; the weekdays are for the sake of Sabbath. It is not an interlude but the climax of living.

Never once in my life did I ask God for success or wisdom or power or fame. I asked for wonder, and he gave it to me.

The American flag has not been planted on foreign soil to acquire more territory but for humanity’s sake.

It is the same thing that can be thought and for the sake of which thought exists.

Sometimes you have to forgive people, not for others but for your own sake.

I am prepared to resort to anything, to submit to anything, for the sake of the commonwealth.

I swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.