Health, Fitness & Wellness: Meditation Quotes

Explore thoughtful meditation quotes that inspire calm, presence, and compassionate awareness. This collection highlights perspectives from teachers, traditions, and modern voices, offering gentle prompts for breath, focus, and balance. Use these lines to support a daily pause, encourage resilience during stress, or spark mindful intention before movement or rest. Return to them whenever you want clarity, steadier attention, and a kinder relationship with yourself.

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"To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders"

Lao Tzu, Author

"True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment"

William Penn, Leader

William Penn

"A desire arises in the mind. It is satisfied immediately another comes. In the interval which separates two desires a perfect calm reigns in the mind. It is at this moment freed from all thought, love or hate"

Swami Sivananda, Philosopher

Swami Sivananda

"Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity"

Voltaire, Writer

Voltaire

"The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large"

Confucius, Philosopher

"The real spiritual progress of the aspirant is measured by the extent to which he achieves inner tranquility"

Swami Sivananda, Philosopher

Swami Sivananda

"Practice meditation regularly. Meditation leads to eternal bliss. Therefore meditate, meditate"

Swami Sivananda, Philosopher

Swami Sivananda

"Meditation is painful in the beginning but it bestows immortal Bliss and supreme joy in the end"

Swami Sivananda, Philosopher

Swami Sivananda

"Complete peace equally reigns between two mental waves"

Swami Sivananda, Philosopher

Swami Sivananda

"Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit. Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever, even if your whole world seems upset"

Saint Francis de Sales, Clergyman

Saint Francis de Sales

"An instructor once told me that when there's resistence in your body, it's only because of the resistence in your mind. It's about getting inside the pose. Being the breath"

Lisa Bonet, Actress

Lisa Bonet

"The average session takes about one to two hours. It's totally amazing because when a person breathes, they go through one stage of relaxation after another, and every stage releases tension"

Leonard Orr, Celebrity

"The affairs of the world will go on forever. Do not delay the practice of meditation"

Milarepa, Poet

"Sleep is the best meditation"

Dalai Lama, Leader

Dalai Lama

"The life of inner peace, being harmonious and without stress, is the easiest type of existence"

Norman Vincent Peale, Clergyman

Norman Vincent Peale

"You must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose"

Indira Gandhi, Statesman

Indira Gandhi

"Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without"

Buddha, Leader

Buddha

"We've got our own daylight to get bad thoughts away, and we talk with that light - our star in our heart. We take away what's unimportant"

Indra Devi, Celebrity

"Fishing provides that connection with the whole living world. It gives you the opportunity of being totally immersed, turning back into yourself in a good way. A form of meditation, some form of communion with levels of yourself that are deeper than the ordinary self"

Ted Hughes, Poet

"Problems only exist in the human mind"

Anthony de Mello, Writer

"In Buddhism there are words you can say... as you say the words with rhythm the conscious tells the subconscious"

Tina Turner, Musician

Tina Turner

"A desire arises in the mind. It is satisfied immediately another comes. In the interval which separates two desires a perfect calm reigns in the mind. It is at this moment freed from all thought, love or hate. Complete peace equally reigns between two mental waves"

Swami Sivananda, Philosopher

Swami Sivananda

"Yoga is a great thing and meditation is also great to get connected to yourself more"

Ziggy Marley, Musician

Ziggy Marley

"The foot feels the foot when it feels the ground"

Buddha, Leader

Buddha

"I never stopped studying Buddhism. In the past few years, in between movies, I do a retreat"

Jet Li, Actor

"Everywhere I go, I still have time to meditate. People think meditating is sitting there, nobody bothering you, but you can even talk and still meditate"

Jet Li, Actor

"I think there's room for both private exploration and group work in Yoga"

Sting, Musician

Sting

"You have to be able to center yourself, to let all of your emotions go... Don't ever forget that you play with your soul as well as your body"

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Athlete

"I read a lot of Zen books. And I grew up surfing, so that has always been my escape"

Liam Hemsworth, Actor

Liam Hemsworth

"The focus and the concentration and the attention to detail that flying takes is a kind of meditation. I find it restful and engaging, and other things slip away"

Harrison Ford, Actor

"Meditation is the life of the soul: Action, the soul of meditation. and honor the reward of action"

Francis Quarles, Poet

"I do know that some Buddhists are able to attain peace of mind"

Martin Scorsese, Director

Martin Scorsese

"Meditation here may think down hours to moments. Here the heart may give a useful lesson to the head and learning wiser grow without his books"

William Cowper, Poet

"During meditation your metabolism and your breath rate go down to a level of rest, twice that of deep sleep"

Mike Love, Musician

"Without meditation, I'd probably be dead"

Mike Love, Musician

"However, I began meditating at about that time and have continued on and off over the years"

Daniel Goleman, Author

"Mindful meditation has been discovered to foster the ability to inhibit those very quick emotional impulses"

Daniel Goleman, Author

"If you do a practice and train your attention to hover in the present, then you will build the internal capacity to do that as needed - at will and voluntarily"

Daniel Goleman, Author

"If you are doing mindfulness meditation, you are doing it with your ability to attend to the moment"

Daniel Goleman, Author

"Fill you mind with the meaningless stimuli of a world preoccupied with meaningless things, and it will not be easy to feel peace in your heart"

Marianne Williamson, Author

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