80+ Meditation & Mindfulness Quotes For Instagram Posts

Meditation quotes can be a powerful tool in your practice. Finding one that resonates can make a huge difference to your focus and ease with which you find that ‘quiet place’. Although some people see them as twee and overused on social media, there’s a reason for their popularity – they work.

In this article – we’ve collated the best meditation quotes for stress, mindfulness, and yoga for you to use in your practice, classes, or on social media (plus downloadable images).

• Buddha quotes
• Quotes for stress
• Mindfulness sayings
• Funny meditation quotes
• Marcus Aurelius sayings
• Yoga meditation phrases
• Using quotes in your wellness business
• Downloadable quote images

As a specialist fitness marketing agency, we’re often asked to create quote posts for our social media clients. Over the last 15+ years, we’ve learned that inspirational, funny, and wise quotes are great for generating engagement and encouraging followers to take action. So, here’s a collection of our favs that are universally popular on Instagram and Facebook.

Buddha Meditation Quotes

When it comes to inspirational and spiritual meditation quotes, those from the Buddha are consistently wise and uplifting (whatever your religious beliefs).

• The mind is the source of happiness and unhappiness.
• We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.
• Rule your mind or it will rule you.
• What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow. Our life is the creation of our mind.
• There is nothing so disobedient as an undisciplined mind, and there is nothing so obedient as a disciplined mind.
• Meditate. Live purely. Be quiet. Do your work with mastery. Like the moon, come out from behind the clouds! Shine.
• Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.
• If you are quiet enough, you will hear the flow of the universe. You will feel its rhythm. Go with this flow. Happiness lies ahead. Meditation is key.
• Meditation brings wisdom; lack of meditation leaves ignorance. Know well what leads you forward and what hold you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom.
• In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west; people create distinctions out of their own minds and then believe them to be true.
• Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.

Meditation Quotes for Stress

Positive meditation quotes can also help to reduce stress by providing perspective and calm…

• Sometimes the most productive thing you can do is relax.
• The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another. – William James
• Chasing after the world brings chaos. Allowing it all to come to me, brings peace. – Zen Gatha
• Nothing is permanent in this world. Not even stress.
• Meditation is not a way of making the mind go quiet. It’s a way of entering into the quiet that’s already there – buried under the 50,000 thoughts, the average person thinks every day. – Deepak Chopra
• Inward calm cannot be maintained unless physical strength is constantly and intelligently replenished. – Buddha
• You should sit in meditation for 20 minutes a day. Unless you’re too busy; then you should sit for one hour. – Old Zen saying
• A flower does not think of competing with the flower next to it. It just blooms. – Zen Shin
• Within you, there is a stillness and a sanctuary to which you can retreat any time and be yourself. – Hermann Hesse
• When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace. – Jimi Hendrix
• The wise yogi knows that the process itself is a destination. That life itself – perhaps this very moment – is the ultimate reward.
• Today I refuse to stress myself out over things I cannot control or change.
• If you have time to breathe, you have time to meditate. – Ajahn Chah
• Without peace, all other dreams vanish and are reduced to ashes. – Jawaharlal Nehru
• Stress doesn’t go with my outfit.
• You can’t stop the waves, but you can learn to surf. – Jon Kabat-Zinn
• Stressed spelled backwards is desserts 🙂

Mindfulness Meditation Quotes

We’re big fans of Headspace quotes produced by the calming mindfulness app. Here are a few meditation sayings that can help to quiet the mind…

• If every eight-year-old in the world is taught meditation, we will eliminate violence from the world within one generation. – Dalai Lama
• Quiet the mind and the soul with speak.
• Just know what is happening in your mind: not happy or sad about it, not attached. If you suffer, see it, know it and be empty.
• Meditation is not evasion; it is a serene encounter with reality.
• As the fletcher whittles and makes straight his arrows, so the master directs his straying thoughts. – Buddha
• Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor. – Thich Nhat Hanh
• One becomes firmly established in practice only after attending to it for a long time, without interruption and with an attitude of devotion.
• Live the actual moment. Only this actual moment is life.
• Paradise is not a place; it’s a state of consciousness. – Sri Chinmoy
• The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it. – Thich Nhat Hanh
• A comfort zone is a beautiful place, but nothing ever grows there.
• Be happy in the moment, that’s enough. Each moment is all we need, not more. – Mother Teresa
• The real meditation is how you live your life. – Jon Kabat-Zinn
• If it doesn’t challenge you, it doesn’t change you.
• Wherever you are, be there totally. – Eckhart Tolle
• The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new. – Socrates
• Look past your thoughts, so you may drink the pure nectar of This Moment. – Rumi
• If you can’t be happy on the journey, how will you be happy at the destination?
• Mindfulness isn’t difficult. We just need to remember to do it. – Sharon Salzberg

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Funny Meditation Quotes

Here’s a selection of funny quotes about meditation that you can use to entertain your students or social media followers…

• Meditation is my happy hour.
• I’ve got 99 problems and I’m gonna meditate and solve about 83 of them.
• If you fall, I’ll be there. Love, Your Yoga Mat
• I’m not napping. This is savasana!
• It’s funny when people think ‘yoga people’ are supposed to be calm. No. We’re all here because we’re nuts!
• Sorry for what I said before I meditated.
• Yoga class helps me calm down from the agonizing stress of trying to get to yoga class on time.
• Don’t just do something. Sit there!
• Come on inner peace, I don’t have all day!
• Don’t let anyone rent a space in your head unless they’re a good tenant.
• Meditation is the ultimate mobile device; you can use it anywhere, anytime, unobtrusively.
• Meditation, because some questions can’t be answered by Google.
• You should sit in meditation for 20 minutes a day unless you’re too busy, then you should sit for an hour. – Zen Proverb
• Check on yourself as much as you check on your Instagram. 
• “What day is it?” asked Pooh. “It’s today,” squeaked Piglet. “My favourite day,” said Pooh. – Winnie the Pooh by A. A. Milne

Marcus Aurelius Meditations Quotes

These Marcus Aurelius sayings are taken from his book ‘Meditations’…

• You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realise this, and you will find strength.
• Let not future things disturb you, for you will come to them, if it shall be necessary, having with you the same reason which you now use for present things.
• Your mind will take the shape of what you frequently hold in thought, for the human spirit is colored by such impressions.
• Discard your misperceptions. Stop being jerked like a puppet. Limit yourself to the present.
• The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.
• If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.

Yoga Meditation Quotes

Yoga and meditation quotes go hand in hand. Here are a few of our favourites that you can use during classes or as meditation captions for Instagram…

• Your body will most likely become much more flexible by doing yoga, and so will your mind. – Cyndi Lee
• Yoga is the golden key that unlocks the door to peace, tranquility, and joy. – B.K.S. Iyengar
• Find happiness within nature and yourself. For a healthy and peaceful life, make yoga a habit!
• Yoga does not just change the way we see things, it transforms the person.
• The body benefits from movement and the mind benefits from stillness. – Sakyong Mipham
• Yoga is the artwork of awareness on the canvas of body, mind, and soul.
• Yoga begins right where I am  – not where I was yesterday or long to be. – Linda Sparrowe.
• The body achieves what the mind believes.
• You owe it to yourself to be yourself – Yogi Bhajan
• The more you do it, the better you’ll get.

For more sayings and ideas, check out our article on inspirational yoga quotes.

How To Use Quotes In Your Business

Here are a few ways that you can use these quotes about meditation in your wellness business…

• Inspiration – use these quotes during classes to inspire your students, clients, or studio members.
• Mantras – include them as mantras for your students to meditate on during yoga or mindfulness sessions.
• Social media – feature these quotes as images, captions, or as regular content such as #MondayMeditation and #Quoteoftheday. 
• Interior decor – display these quotes across walls, mirrors, and changing areas as part of your interior design.

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