Top 90 Sharon Gannon Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “What we do to others will come back to us. You can’t expect to be happy by causing unhappiness to others.”

— Sharon Gannon

2. “Don’t expect others to change. Instead, take on the project and see if you can become the change you want to see in the world. Try your best to let go of anger, blame and seeing yourself as a victim.”

— Sharon Gannon

3. “Worry is a prayer for something you don’t want.”

— Sharon Gannon

4. “Be confident in yourself, in your abilities, and in your goals. Then go for it.”

— Sharon Gannon

5. “You cannot change the past but you can start now and lay the foundation for the future.”

— Sharon Gannon

6. “Create the kind of world you want to live in by how you treat others now.”

— Sharon Gannon

7. “If you want people to listen to you, then be willing to listen to them.”

— Sharon Gannon

8. “Animals are not ours to eat, wear, experiment on, use for entertainment or for any exploitative purpose.”

— Sharon Gannon

9. “We create the world we live in. If we want to change what we don’t like in the world, we must start by changing what we don’t like about ourselves.”

— Sharon Gannon

10. “What we see in the world around us is just a reflection of what is inside of us.”

— Sharon Gannon

11. “The best way to uplift our own lives is to do all we can to uplift the lives of others.”

— Sharon Gannon

12. “To be an environmentalist is to care about the environment and care about life on planet Earth.”

— Sharon Gannon

13. “Life begins with an inhale and ends with an exhale. ln between that inhale and that exhale is our life.”

— Sharon Gannon

14. “The way you treat others determines the way others treat you; the way others treat you determines the way you see yourself; the way you see yourself determines who you are.”

— Sharon Gannon

15. “What we do to others will come back to us.”

— Sharon Gannon

16. “Be a communicator, not a self-righteous proselytizer or preacher. Many people are only concerned with expressing themselves, which isn’t necessarily communication.”

— Sharon Gannon

17. “You cannot do yoga. Yoga is your natural state. What you can do are yoga exercises, which may reveal to you where you are resisting your natural state.”

— Sharon Gannon

18. “When we have a choice it is always best to choose kindness. Veganism is simply the kinder choice.”

— Sharon Gannon

19. “Human population growth is a problem in that most humans consume more than they need. The Earth’s resources are now strained to sustain the needs and wants of the human population, which continues to escalate.”

— Sharon Gannon

20. “By choosing to be kind instead of cruel, we can break the karmic chain of reacting to violence with more violence, contributing to a more peaceful future for everyone.”

— Sharon Gannon

21. “The practices of Yoga will help you maintain equanimity in all situations by teaching you to become transparent, able to allow both joy and sorrow to flow through you without destroying your peace of mind.”

— Sharon Gannon

22. “Live with the anticipation that something incredible might happen at any time.”

— Sharon Gannon

23. “Communication implies communing, having a shared experience with another, not “talking at” or “talking down to” someone.”

— Sharon Gannon

24. “Three things to never leave home without: your keys, birdseed for the birds, and your mala beads to chant through difficulties.”

— Sharon Gannon

25. “If you practice Yoga for small, selfish reasons, you will remain the same, bound by your beliefs about what you can and cannot do. Let go and offer your effort to limitless potential. Dedicate yourself to the happiness of all beings.”

— Sharon Gannon

26. “The way we treat animals is the root cause of all the human suffering in the world, from poverty, starvation, disease, and war to lack of clean air and water, not to mention all the varied forms of human emotional and spiritual suffering.”

— Sharon Gannon

27. “Don’t wait for a better world. Start now to create a world of harmony and peace. It is up to you, and it always has been. You may even find the solution at the end of your fork.”

— Sharon Gannon

28. “We can’t have happiness if we cause others unhappiness.”

— Sharon Gannon

29. “We are so unconscious about our actions that we don’t even realize the immense suffering we are causing to animals, the planet, and ourselves.”

— Sharon Gannon

30. “Most of the plants grown to be fed to farm animals are heavily saturated with pesticides and herbicides and have been genetically modified, all of which contributes to the pollution and destruction of our environment, which harms us all.”

— Sharon Gannon

31. “The enemy of the spirit is the selfish ego, which thinks that happiness can be gained through causing unhappiness and disharmony to others. In many ancient languages, the word for enemy means “one who falls out of rhythm; one who is not working in harmony with the larger group.””

— Sharon Gannon

32. “Jivamukti Yoga is a path to enlightenment through compassion for all beings. Jivamukti is a Sanskrit word that means to live liberated in joyful, musical harmony with the Earth. The Earth does not belong to us – we belong to the Earth. Let us celebrate our connection to life by not enslaving animals and exploiting the Earth, and attain freedom and happiness for ourselves in the process. For surely, the best way to uplift our own lives is to do all we can to uplift the lives of others. Go vegan!”

— Sharon Gannon

33. “Human beings have been waging war and destroying the environment for long time. Just because it has been going on for a long time and become an unquestioned habit, does that mean it should be allowed to continue.”

— Sharon Gannon

34. “We have become so addicted to our greed-driven habits that we have lost our moral compass and don’t know what is right and wrong.”

— Sharon Gannon

35. “Our breath is connected to the air that every being breathes. By breathing consciously, we acknowledge our communion with all of life.”

— Sharon Gannon

36. “Inspiration pushes me out of my tight intellectual comfort zone and into humility, the wonderous state of not knowing. From this place of zero, limitless possibilities seem to arise.”

— Sharon Gannon

37. “Through the practice of yoga, you come to feel confident and develop a feeling of wholeness and completeness; you are not likely to feel deprived or ‘less than.’ People steal because they feel deprived. They try to make up for their deficits by depriving others.”

— Sharon Gannon

38. “Whatever you want to have happen to you make it happen for others now and eventually but inevitably you will reap the seeds you have sown.”

— Sharon Gannon

39. “The raising of animals for food and all that it entails is the single most destructive force impacting our planet’s fragile ecosystems. Our planet simply cannot sustain the greed of billions of human beings who are eating other animals.”

— Sharon Gannon

40. “Eating vegetables, fruits and grains rarely causes total destruction of the plant or tree on which the food grew; after harvesting, seeds remain to be replanted the next season. But this certainly does not happen when an animal is slaughtered – death is final; that animal will not reproduce again!”

— Sharon Gannon

41. “We must stop viewing ourselves as separate and disconnected from the rest of life, as if we are a special case and the laws of nature or karma do not apply to us.”

— Sharon Gannon

42. “We are the only animals who steal and drink the milk from other species.”

— Sharon Gannon

43. “I passionately feel that as long as we view ourselves as superior and other animals as exploitable our consciousness will remain stuck in a level of ignorance that will disallow a full realization of the truth underlying reality.”

— Sharon Gannon

44. “Yoga is many things to many people, but in its full potential the practice of yoga can provide the means to transform suffering into happiness and Suzanne Bryant’s film YOGA IS shows us this path.”

— Sharon Gannon

45. “Try your best not to get distracted from your goal. Let everything you do be your way of getting closer to your enlightenment; never take a vacation from spiritual practice.”

— Sharon Gannon

46. “Sunlight is essential to the body’s ability to absorb calcium from the food you are eating. Make sure you receive adequate vitamin D every day through sunlight. About fifteen to twenty minutes of sun on the face and hands is usually enough for most of us.”

— Sharon Gannon

47. “Choosing to be kind rather than to be cruel benefits everyone.”

— Sharon Gannon

48. “You cannot do yoga. Yoga is your natural state.”

— Sharon Gannon

49. “The yogi in love needs only to whisper the beloved name, and all desire is fulfilled. To hear Shyamdas speak of The Lover’s Life is to be transported into the eternal magical realm of love, where infinite possibilities become possible.”

— Sharon Gannon

50. “Human overconsumption is a greater problem than human population growth, and meat eating is a big part of that problem.”

— Sharon Gannon