Beautify your inner dialogue. Beautify your inner world with love
light and compassion. Life will be beautiful. Amit Ray
They alone live, who live for others. Swami Vivekananda
Compassion is the wish for another being to be free from suffering;
love is wanting them to have happiness. Dalai Lama
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SPIRITUAL QUOTES ABOUT LIFE, HAPPINESS, GRATITUDE, LETTING GO
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Real generosity towards the future lies in giving all to
the present. Albert Camus
There is neither Past nor Future. There is only the Present.
Ramana Maharshi
Happiness is your nature. It is not wrong to desire it.
What is wrong is seeking it outside when it is inside.
Ramana Maharshi
We have only now, only this single eternal moment opening
and unfolding before us, day and night. Jack Kornfield
The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware;
joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.
Henry Miller
Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or
consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every
minute with love, grace and gratitude. Denis Waitley
The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation,
but rather your thoughts about the situation.
Eckhart Tolle
Always say yes to the present moment. Surrender to what is.
Say ‘yes’ to life and see how life starts suddenly working
for you rather than against you. Eckhart Tolle
Accept – then act. Whatever the present moment contains,
accept it as if you had chosen it… This will miraculously
transform your whole life. Eckhart Tolle
Surrender is the most difficult thing in the world while
you are doing it and the easiest when it is done.
Bhai Sahib
It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience,
including the negative ones, as merely steps on the
path, and to proceed. Ram Dass
The true definition of mental illness is when the majority of
your time is spent in the past or future, but rarely
living in the realism of now. Shannon L. Alder
It’s all a matter of paying attention, being awake in the
present moment, and not expecting a huge payoff.
The magic in this world seems to work in whispers and small
kindnesses. Charles de Lint
You just understand the whole of life, not just one little
part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must
look at the skies, that is why you must sing, and dance, and
write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
As long as a sense of self-importance rules your being,
you will never know lasting peace. Matthieu Ricard
To speak gratitude is courteous and pleasant, but to live
gratitude is to touch heaven. Johannes A. Gaertner
Only in quiet waters things mirror themselves undistorted.
Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world.
Hans Margolius
If you would be a real seeker after truth,
it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt,
as far as possible, all things. Rene Descartes
If peace is our single aim in all we do, we will always know
what to do because we will do whatever will protect
and deepen our peace. Gerald Jampolsky
It does not matter how long you are spending on the earth,
how much money you have gathered or how much attention
you have received. It is the amount of positive vibration you
have radiated in life that matters. Amit Ray
The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of
wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.
Anais Nin
Letting there be room for not knowing is the most important
thing of all. When there’s a big disappointment, we don’t
know if that’s the end of the story. It may just be the
beginning of a great adventure. Life is like that.
We don’t know anything. Pema Chödrön
The whole of life is to spiritualize our activities by humility
and faith, to silence our nature by charity. Thomas Merton
I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today.
I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead,
tomorrow hasn’t arrived yet. I have just one day,
today, and I’m going to be happy in it. Groucho Marx
Not thinking about anything is Zen. Once you know this,
walking, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is Zen.
Bodhidharma
Ask nothing; want nothing in return. Give what you have to give;
it will come back to you, but do not think of that now.
Swami Vivekananda
Nothing kills the ego like playfulness, like laughter.
When you start taking life as fun, the ego has to die,
it cannot exist anymore. Osho
Neither seek nor avoid, take what comes. Swami Vivekananda
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SPIRITUAL QUOTES ABOUT NATURE
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Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The sky is the daily bread of the imagination.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature is made of vibrations of Love. João Mendes
I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my
senses put in order. John Burroughs
For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers.
I revere them when they live in tribes and families,
in forests and groves. And even more I revere them
when they stand alone. They are like lonely persons.
Not like hermits who have stolen away out of some
weakness, but like great, solitary men, like Beethoven
and Nietzsche.
Trees are sanctuaries. Whoever knows how to speak to them,
whoever knows how to listen to them, can learn the truth.
The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to
be lifeless. Alan Watts
You see, one loves the sunset when one is so sad.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Even the sun directs our gaze away from itself and to the
life illumined by it. Eberhard Arnold
A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees. William Blake
Mother Nature speaks in a language understood within the
peaceful mind of the sincere observer. Radhanath Swami
The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some
feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a
persistent intuition. Honore De Balzac
Love the animals, love the plants, love everything.
If you love everything, you will perceive the divine mystery in
things. Once you perceive it, you will begin to comprehend it
better every day. And you will come at last to love the
whole world with an all-embracing love.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
When one loses the deep intimate relationship with nature,
then temples, mosques and churches become important.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on
trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars.
Martin Luther
When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the
moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.
Mahatma Gandhi
The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood
upright again when the storm had passed over. Aesop
In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.
Aristotle
If one way be better than other, that you may be sure is…
Nature’s way. Aristotle
Nature does nothing without purpose or uselessly. Aristotle
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SPIRITUAL QUOTES ABOUT DEATH, LOSS, PAIN, FEAR, GRIEF
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Whatever life takes away from you, let it go. Don Miguel Ruiz
Life is not separate from death. It only looks that way.
Blackfoot (Native American)
To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die. Thomas Campbell
Whatever comes, don’t push it away.
When it goes, do not grieve. Mooji
All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a
single candle. Francis of Assisi
The darker the night, the brighter the stars. The deeper
the grief, the closer is God! Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Crying is one of the highest devotional songs.
One who knows crying, knows spiritual practice.
If you can cry with a pure heart,
nothing else compares to such a prayer. Kripalvanandji
When something dies is the greatest teaching. Shunryu Suzuki
Don’t ever discount the wonder of your tears.
They can be healing waters and a stream of joy.
Sometimes they are the best words the heart
can speak. William Paul Young
Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our
pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our
pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world. C.S. Lewis
There is nothing to worry about. There will be tough times,
nice times, good times and bad times.
They all come in life and go. Nothing stays.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
People have a hard time letting go of their suffering.
Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering
that is familiar. Thich Nhat Hanh
Accepting death as a part of life serves as a spur to diligence
and saves us from wasting our time on vain distractions.
Matthieu Ricard
The soul would have no rainbow, had the eyes no tears.
John Vance Cheney
SPIRITUAL QUOTES ABOUT FAMILY, FRIENDSHIP
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A happy family is but an earlier heaven. George Bernard Shaw
Through others we become ourselves. Lev S. Vygotsky
Sticking with your family is what makes it a family. Mitch Albom
Friendship has always belonged to the core of my spiritual
journey. Henri Nouwen
What do we live for if not to make the world less difficult
for each other? George Eliot
No matter what you have done for yourself, or for humanity,
if you can’t look back on having given love and attention to
your own family, what have you really accomplished?
Elbert Hubbard
Our capacity to make peace with another person and with the world,
depends very much on our capacity to make peace with ourselves.
Thich Nhat Hanh
Family life is full of major and minor crises – the ups and
downs of health, success and failure in career, marriage,
and divorce – and all kinds of characters. It is tied to places
and events and histories. With all of these felt details, life
etches itself into memory and personality. It’s difficult to
imagine anything more nourishing to the soul.
Thomas Moore
People hear you on the level you speak to them from.
Speak from your heart, and they will hear with theirs.
Marianne Williamson
What you meet in another being is the projection of your own
level of evolution. Ram Dass
When you judge another, you do not define them,
you define yourself. Wayne Dyer
We find greater lightness and ease in our lives as we
increasingly care for ourselves and other beings.
Sharon Salzberg
You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you,
as you are to them. Desmond Tutu
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SPIRITUAL QUOTES ABOUT FAITH, HOPE, PATIENCE
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Faith, hope, love, and insight are the highest achievements
of human effort. Carl Jung
What oxygen is to the lungs, such is hope to the meaning of
life. Emil Brunner
Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender; it’s holy ground.
There is no greater investment.Stephen Covey
Our prayers are answered not when we are given what we ask, but
when we are challenged to be what we can be.Morris Adler
If you lose money you lose much, If you lose friends you lose more,
If you lose faith you lose all. Eleanor Roosevelt
Believe in your infinite potential. Your only limitations
are those you set upon yourself. Roy T. Bennett