Top 160 Donna Goddard Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “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

52. “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

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

— Donna Goddard

54. “Love begins with an acceptance of the person as they are. That does not mean we accept bad behaviour or a lazy attitude towards life. Our primary focus is on loving the person, come what may. Part of love is helping them become the best they can be. We want the best for them, but our love is not dependent on it. Life, without any assistance from us, has its teaching methods.”

— Donna Goddard

55. “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

56. “They did normal things, but they did them with abnormal love and inclusiveness.”

— Donna Goddard

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

— Donna Goddard

58. “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

59. “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

60. “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

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

— Donna Goddard

62. “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

63. “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

64. “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

65. “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

66. “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

67. “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

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. “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

70. “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

71. “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

72. “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

73. “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

74. “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

75. “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

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

— Donna Goddard

77. “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

78. “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

79. “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

80. “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

81. “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

82. “To be creative, first we must be generous. Then we must have a quiet, indomitable belief in our own worth.”

— Donna Goddard

83. “We find many friends when we are down and out. People swarm around with proclamations of, ‘Oh, how dreadful. How terrible.’ They may as well be saying, ‘Thank you so much for making me feel better about myself and my life. You have more problems than me and are more pathetic.’ Yet, when we enter the path of healing, there will be few standing there to wish us well, in case we find it.”

— Donna Goddard

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

— Donna Goddard

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

— Donna Goddard

86. “We assign roles to all the people in our life in an attempt to master it. The roles can be reasonable or preposterous. Either way, when we realise that others do not agree to the terms of the role we have assigned to them, we get upset. Is it their fault? Surely, they are simply following their own dreams. We mustn’t invent roles for others because we think it will make us happy. Who are we to invent such things?”

— Donna Goddard

87. “Be kind to yourself. Pain is not a judgement. It is a path indicator.”

— Donna Goddard

88. “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

89. “When we are personally transforming into a whole, healthy, and soulful being, we automatically want to help others to do the same thing as it strengthens and accelerates our own transformation.”

— Donna Goddard

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

— Donna Goddard

91. “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

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

— Donna Goddard

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

— Donna Goddard

94. “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

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

— Donna Goddard

96. “We may talk lightly but never carelessly. We keep at bay the flow of common, ignorant thought which runs its damaging course through the pathways of ordinary human conversation.”

— Donna Goddard

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

— Donna Goddard

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

— Donna Goddard

99. “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

100. “Have no delusions of grandeur or plotting schemes. Have flawless confidence because you are worthy and sacred.”

— Donna Goddard