Top 160 Donna Goddard Quotes (2026 Update)
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51. “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 apart from or turned away from a Love which knows no parting and is present and available under all circumstances.”

— Donna Goddard

52. “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

53. “Everyone on Earth is on Death Row until they find a way out. It’s not so hard to find the way out. The problem is wanting to.”

— Donna Goddard

54. “We love with all our heart but we also keep our heart light and pliable. It has space. It breathes. It waits on life to give instructions. It sings with sweetness when the winds are soft and warm. It stands with calm patience when the storm is brewing. It lets go when endings have left their irrefutable mark. It moves. It heals. It hopes.”

— Donna Goddard

55. “It is warmer here. Can you see the light? Trust it. It is safe. It has lived a long time. It has seen much more than you. You fight a demon that you once knew but the demon is already slain. And from the corner of your eye you will see the scattered, sacred fire reform again. Settle, settle. Peace, peace.”

— Donna Goddard

56. “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

57. “The silence is constant. The noise is temporary.”

— Donna Goddard

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

— Donna Goddard

59. “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

60. “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

61. “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

62. “Sometimes, to protect a secret we will say it so openly that most will not suspect the truth of what we are saying.”

— Donna Goddard

63. “No one replaces anyone else. No one substitutes for another person. Every person is unique. Every relationship is unique. Every relationship’s purpose is unique. Life is fluid; it moves. It doesn’t die; it reforms. Each day is new. We can only try and do our best for today. It’s enough, don’t you think? No more is asked. But also no less.”

— Donna Goddard

64. “Your body would not get sick if you held no thought of resentment. It is neither good nor bad of itself. If we hold anything against anyone, we will suffer ourselves.”

— Donna Goddard

65. “When we love another person, it is we who love. The other may ignite our love but it is we who decide to love. We need to magnify our decision to love whether people love us or not.”

— Donna Goddard

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

— Donna Goddard

67. “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

68. “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

69. “At every step, she paused, withdrew to the inner sanctuary, and asked herself, Does this feel right? Her answer came in the form of peace or tension. If she felt tension, she stepped a different way. If she felt peace, she kept going forward.”

— Donna Goddard

70. “The ego is constantly on guard and looking for all the ways it will be betrayed and hurt. If we listen with our fears then almost everything is a threat. If we listen with our spirit then no offence is taken. The voice we listen to changes our perception.”

— Donna Goddard

71. “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

72. “If we try every day to find that place inside us that can see a little more light and give a little more love, the quality of our life will improve significantly. We all long for love. It is the human inheritance to have such a longing. However, we must discover that in order to find it, we must give it. And when we learn to give it, we find that it is, quite amazingly, everywhere around us.”

— Donna Goddard

73. “We are loved by the Divine, loved into existence. That, in itself, is enough to reassure each one of us of our inestimable worth.”

— Donna Goddard

74. “Life is naturally going to have ups and downs, comings and goings, pleasures and hardships, joy and pain. Let us be kind to ourselves, understanding that we are here to learn. And let us be kind to others, knowing that peace is the ultimate prize of life and nothing is worth more. Simply to side with peace is to disempower the ego’s hold. In so doing, the natural, beautiful, and healing rhythms of life have a chance to start singing their sweet song in our listening ear.”

— Donna Goddard

75. “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

76. “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

77. “It is only when we are far enough along to realise the sorry state that most people are in that we lose our concern with what other people think.”

— Donna Goddard

78. “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

79. “Companionship, love, and support are everywhere and ever-present. They are the natural outflow of divinity. The greater our sense of primary divine connection, the more easily these beautiful life resources will be attracted into our existence. How could it be otherwise since we reflect not our own but Life’s excellent, appealing, and valuable qualities?”

— Donna Goddard

80. “We have already said more goodbyes than are necessary. Those were goodbyes that brought about the end of partings. We taught each other that no parting is possible.”

— Donna Goddard

81. “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

82. “Have you noticed how much lying we do in our relationships? We tell ourselves that it’s not lying or it is excusable for purposes of self-defense. How little we realise that every lie digs us deeper into a painful delusion and we end up building war zones, not love boats.”

— Donna Goddard

83. “We are all One. The beauty in one person is shared by all. The life path of one individual blesses everyone. The expression of Life neither originates within a single human, belongs to that person, nor remains within the personal boundary. Life is energy and, as such, it belongs to all, reaches all, and blesses all.”

— Donna Goddard

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

— Donna Goddard

85. “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

86. “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

87. “When we maintain a conscious connection with Gratitude, our presence will naturally radiate a certain beauty and undisturbed, inner tranquillity. Such individuals glow. All such individuals look beautiful and seem irresistible to those who value goodness. They have an attractor field of loveliness which, likewise, tends to bring out the beauty in other people.”

— Donna Goddard

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

— Donna Goddard

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

— Donna Goddard

90. “Imagine that your tears can talk. What would they say? Listen to them. They are trying to tell you something important.”

— Donna Goddard

91. “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

92. “Being liked or not, having company or not, being understood or not, being acknowledged or not are not issues of concern on the spiritual path.”

— Donna Goddard

93. “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

94. “Relationships always bring about the dissolution of our delusions.”

— Donna Goddard

95. “Beauty is the soul of life. If we learn to see beauty, we are never far from God.”

— Donna Goddard

96. “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

97. “In spite of any indication to the contrary, you can never be disconnected from the invisible, irrevocable, ever-present connections of Love. You are loved. You are here for a purpose. Your life is unique, important, and irreplaceable.”

— Donna Goddard

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

— Donna Goddard

99. “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

100. “The desire for connection with the Divine and our formless inner self is at the foundation of all desire for human connection.”

— Donna Goddard