Top 160 Donna Goddard Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “The price of a successful relationship is devotion. Devotion is, essentially, commitment to something we value. We are devoted to the wellbeing of another person and the wellbeing of the relationship. We honour the value of the other person and we honour the worth of the relationship.”

— Donna Goddard

52. “If you want to be happy, don’t gossip, don’t spread hate, don’t talk about other people, don’t spread fear, don’t complain, and don’t relay stories that are detrimental to the well-being of those around us. That will cut out the vast majority of most people’s conversations. There is a time for honest, well-intentioned directness, but it is not found in typical conversation and is a learned skill. Be a bringer of peace and healing.”

— Donna Goddard

53. “The worst person to get away from is oneself.”

— Donna Goddard

54. “We only have moments, but moments bring us to timelessness.”

— Donna Goddard

55. “The basis of depression is more often than not that we have placed the source of our happiness outside ourselves. This makes us automatically vulnerable to depression, anxiety, fear, and loss. To feel separated from anything deemed essential for our happiness is ultimately to feel shut off from Life. We must take back our power and refuse to be the helpless victim of some perceived loss or lack.”

— Donna Goddard

56. “She rarely used the dormant fire that was inside her. It was seldom necessary but when it came, it came without apology. It came from Beyond and when present, she had no personal identity. Having no identity and therefore nothing to lose, the force was given free rein. Therein lay its power.”

— Donna Goddard

57. “Do not assume that someone else’s ego can love you. It cannot. It does not even love the person it resides in. The limit of the ego’s ‘love’ is to decide that you are a temporary ally and thus it will protect you for the benefit of its own use. Only a soul can accept and return love. Everything else is manipulation. Fragile arrangements. They are, at best, suspicious and, at worst, vicious.”

— Donna Goddard

58. “Turn the flame of jealousy into the fire of self-improvement.”

— Donna Goddard

59. “Wise individuals frequently say very little, but what they do say hits the mark. Such remarks often remain in the mind of the recipient for a long time, possibly a lifetime.”

— Donna Goddard

60. “So much of sexual desire comes from the belief that another body can alleviate our aloneness. It can’t do that, but people believe it can. When one body doesn’t work, they look for another. When we don’t feel alone, we don’t look for anyone’s body or personality to fill the void. There is no void.”

— Donna Goddard

61. “Existence is much more than we can physically see. Our potential, in every way, is far greater than we understand. Spiritual reality is always pushing us towards evolution, healing, love, and freedom.”

— Donna Goddard

62. “Without silence, we can neither know ourselves, another, or the depth of anything beautiful. We learn how to take silence into the noise.”

— Donna Goddard

63. “Birthdays are a day for being grateful that someone exists. We shouldn’t take it for granted. What if they died tomorrow? They could. Anyone could. We should say what we want without fear of it being taken the wrong way.”

— Donna Goddard

64. “Productivity is far more related to undivided attention and openness than it is to time.”

— Donna Goddard

65. “How deeply and unknowingly we are all connected. Life knows us all and plays with our interconnectedness.”

— Donna Goddard

66. “Acceptance is easier when one is powerless.”

— Donna Goddard

67. “Anger is a cover for fear.”

— Donna Goddard

68. “Babies do not have both feet squarely on Earth. They float between the worlds, not being able to clearly distinguish them. As they grow, they must become firmly established as Earth dwellers. Their memory of other worlds fades and disappears. They learn how to be human before they can, one day, recall their spiritual heritage.”

— Donna Goddard

69. “You don’t have be lying in a hospital bed to be alcoholic. Many alcoholics function at a high level and appear fine. But, bit by bit, as the dependence gets more control, their life starts to unravel – their body, their relationships, their work, their ability to be productive, their mood, their self-respect, their will to live. They have to give it the flick. There isn’t any other way. Give it the flick or it’s gotcha.”

— Donna Goddard

70. “Life is energy and, as such, it belongs to all, reaches all, and blesses all.”

— Donna Goddard

71. “The learning opportunities of togetherness are not only practical but precious for us all.”

— Donna Goddard

72. “If we want to create something significant in our lives, we need highly focused attention. The focus gathers the energy, enlarges it, and births ideas, experiences, and manifestations. The energy makes the creation. Spiritual seekers have inclusive and well-intentioned desires from which to create. Their creations do not have a downside and are harmful to neither their maker nor anyone else.”

— Donna Goddard

73. “Anything that is held in secret cannot be healed. The light cannot reach that which is locked away in the dark.”

— Donna Goddard

74. “Dancing is an innately spiritual affair. It reaches beyond words to the essence of beauty. Its height is Divinity and its depth is humanity. It is the ever moving balance between independence and intimacy. All the while, it reaches into the great Beyond.”

— Donna Goddard

75. “We do not have the right to dictate to God how love will be revealed in our lives. We are open to all the varied and unexpected ways Love can choose to bless and use us. That is all we need to ensure our happiness. One who knows their connection with divine Love can never feel the isolation of loneliness or the fear of being rejected or deserted. One cannot be separated from or turned away from a love that knows no parting and is present and available under all circumstances.”

— Donna Goddard

76. “If you can’t work it out together then let each other go freely. You loved her once. She is still that same person. Think of that person you once loved. She is that person whether you are together or not.”

— Donna Goddard

77. “Love is its own reward. We do not have to worry about what other people think about us. We can never feel alone or isolated when we understand that it is impossible for love to leave our side. Love is all around us.”

— Donna Goddard

78. “All significant relationships have a price. It’s not that relationships are a sacrifice. After all, who wants a life of sacrifice? It is more a matter of priorities. We can’t do everything in life and we can’t be with everyone in life. In choosing what we will do and with whom, we automatically make priorities. If something is at the top of our list then other things have to come second or third or last.”

— Donna Goddard

79. “The expression of Life neither originates within a single human nor belongs to that person exclusively. Life is energy and, as such, it belongs to all.”

— Donna Goddard

80. “Ceaselessly praying does not mean to endlessly recite prayers to oneself. It means that the consciousness of the spiritual student is moulded in such a way that the context of the Divine is never lost from awareness. Everything that is said or thought comes from that basis, even in sleep. It is living the still point as a constant, ongoing reality.”

— Donna Goddard

81. “If love isn’t there, nothing will grow. If it is, there is always hope and it will win in the end. Love is vital and sacrosanct.”

— Donna Goddard

82. “Every relationship is a love-lesson.”

— Donna Goddard

83. “That voice you listen to is no friend. It promises so much but when has it ever given you what it promised? When has it ever given you any happiness longer than a fleeting moment? It has your destruction as its goal, not your happiness.”

— Donna Goddard

84. “People often have a romantic ideal of the forest, but if you sit under a tree, every insect within a ten-metre radius will make a beeline for you. It’s not romantic. It is, however, transformative. To feel its pulse, its rhythm, its life. To learn its ways, its regenerative power, its creative prowess.”

— Donna Goddard

85. “Don’t feel bad about feeling bad. Don’t be frightened of feeling afraid. Don’t be angry about getting angry. There is no need to give up when we are feeling depressed. Nor should we be dismayed at the grief which often accompanies the outgrowing of anything which needs outgrowing. We can be glad that our soul is speaking to us and pushing us onwards. We frequently need to persevere with a period of inner turmoil before the dust can settle and be swept out the door.”

— Donna Goddard

86. “Some people’s words stay inside us and have the power to change us and other people’s words are powerless, no matter how intelligent they may sound.”

— Donna Goddard

87. “We do not always have control over what happens in the outside world, but we can learn to control what happens on the inside.”

— Donna Goddard

88. “We do not engage in idle or intentional gossip which undermines someone else’s integrity or which spreads the seeds of fear by talking unthinkingly about illness, disasters, and all the other fears which run rampant in the world.”

— Donna Goddard

89. “To be in love with Life is to be in touch with our spiritual essence. It is to see beauty and loveliness wherever we go. It is to see the glow of divinity in all those around us.”

— Donna Goddard

90. “Healing is simple, if one is healed.”

— Donna Goddard

91. “If we know that we are deeply and completely loved by Life then we will know how to let it flow through us freely. If we know that the essential force of Life is immensely beautiful and endlessly creative then we will know how to follow our inner guidance. If we know that our true being is spiritually perfect, complete, and pure then we will be healthy, well-balanced, productive, and happy.”

— Donna Goddard

92. “Well-functioning cafes make a significant contribution to the mental health of their communities.”

— Donna Goddard

93. “Push too far into independence and we disconnect and hurt each other. Then in a longing for togetherness, we seek each other out; fumbling around for the warmth of the other. Push too far into intimacy and we get afraid of losing ourselves in it and head the other way. It is the ongoing interplay between independence and intimacy.”

— Donna Goddard

94. “People hurting us helps us to let go of wanting them to love us. It is the beginning of learning how to love purely.”

— Donna Goddard

95. “We have to be as strong as we are sensitive, as intelligent as we are feeling, and as logical as we are creative.”

— Donna Goddard

96. “The soul must first realize that something seems to be missing before it can, one day, know that nothing was missing at all.”

— Donna Goddard

97. “The Spirit is as much a jealous lover as the ego. Both guard their path with an uncompromising passion but for very different reasons.”

— Donna Goddard

98. “Life is not a competition. No one has to lose for someone else to win. A true blessing blesses everyone. A fragmented love which makes others lose will eventually turn upon itself and destroy the very thing which was being so carefully guarded. An open-hearted love will follow a course which can only lead somewhere good.”

— Donna Goddard

99. “We must know who we are and where we are.”

— Donna Goddard

100. “Dancing is an innately spiritual affair. Its height is Divinity and its depth is humanity. It is the ever-moving balance between independence and intimacy.”

— Donna Goddard