Top 160 Donna Goddard Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “Healing is simple, if one is healed.”

— Donna Goddard

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

— Donna Goddard

103. “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

104. “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

105. “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

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

— Donna Goddard

107. “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

108. “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

109. “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

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

— Donna Goddard

111. “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

112. “We draw into our life those who will help us to grow. Naturally, we tend to have mixed feelings about those very people but they are marked for us. We have forgotten that we wrote them an invitation some time ago. We look at them as if they are intruders when all along they are our guests.”

— Donna Goddard

113. “We can learn to use the pain in our relationships to transform us thereby turning them into entities which heal not harm.”

— Donna Goddard

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

— Donna Goddard

115. “Be braver. Be more honest. Don’t hold onto what you knew in the past. Artists are meant to express what other people cannot. That is why an artist, of any type, is given a privileged position in society. They are meant to inspire and we are very reliant on inspiration to help us in our lives. You cannot inspire if you are not honest. What is honest for you now will take more courage to carry and hold than it did in the past.”

— Donna Goddard

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

— Donna Goddard

117. “It was the moments; the precious moments. The moments when no one was complaining, blaming, thinking about past hurts or the fear of future ones. It was those moments of simply being present to another person. Those moments of being grateful. Gratitude for another being; gratitude for life. Those moments made their relationship.”

— Donna Goddard

118. “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

119. “We are spiritual beings – indestructible, immaterial and safe.”

— Donna Goddard

120. “If you must dream a dream, at least, make it a happy dream.”

— Donna Goddard

121. “We are generally not learning the thing we think we are, and even less the thing we want. We should be grateful for what makes us grow, even though it may be a love-hate relationship with the things responsible for that growth.”

— Donna Goddard

122. “There is so much more.”

— Donna Goddard

123. “Healing has a chance in our lives when we have exhausted all our other options.”

— Donna Goddard

124. “Read minds more than minding words.”

— Donna Goddard

125. “When you have a castle within, you don’t need one outside. I prefer to keep things simple.”

— Donna Goddard

126. “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

127. “Good fiction writers have an instinctive understanding of human nature. That’s what makes stories and characters captivating. Good spiritual writers share what they sincerely practice themselves.”

— Donna Goddard

128. “Relationships are valuable for healing and learning how to love.”

— Donna Goddard

129. “Trust the creative process. You are a walking, breathing mass of possibilities and potential.”

— Donna Goddard

130. “We cultivate inner stillness through the practice of contemplation or awareness. Behind the normal goings-on of everyday life, we try to have a consistent wakefulness. We learn to watch what we are thinking, what other people are thinking, and what is the spiritual truth of any given situation. We live in two realms. One is the visible human realm. The other is the invisible spiritual realm. This is not obvious to anyone except those who do the same thing. Then it is instantly recognisable.”

— Donna Goddard

131. “If people could kill without going to jail and, perhaps, without getting their own hands dirty, they often would. Human nature is like that.”

— Donna Goddard

132. “Life can evolve in a most positive but unexpected manner if we do not resist it and kill its tender beauty with our fears. We all have inner abilities to fulfil, a path to patiently discover, people to connect with who will become pivotal in our life, and a love of certain things which make us feel glad to be alive. Every little step in that direction, every little decision to allow that movement to happen, every brave letting go, and every open embracing will bring us what we need.”

— Donna Goddard

133. “We find love by being loving.”

— Donna Goddard

134. “Students recognise their teachers. Teachers recognise their students.”

— Donna Goddard

135. “Above all, I wish to see.”

— Donna Goddard

136. “It could be said that we become so much a stranger that we disappear and find ourselves reborn in the midst of humanity which is quite a paradox.”

— Donna Goddard

137. “The heart carries the beat of life. It makes existence meaningful and beautiful. The heart bypasses language. It doesn’t lie. Everything moving and powerful has heart.”

— Donna Goddard

138. “We are not trying to understand intention so that we can damn every person who thinks badly of us. We are trying to understand intention so that we are safer, our loved ones are safer, and so that our life projects are not sabotaged. We want to help other people to become a better version of themselves. We are not blaming people for acting and thinking badly. Acting and thinking badly is normal in our world. We want to help it to improve. We want everyone to improve.”

— Donna Goddard

139. “When we love someone, we make it our business to protect them.”

— Donna Goddard

140. “The battle ended because no one fed it.”

— Donna Goddard

141. “Looking is only for those who cannot see.”

— Donna Goddard

142. “It takes courage to tread one’s own course, but only at the beginning of each new stage. We hope that we are safe but we are not yet sure.”

— Donna Goddard

143. “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

144. “If a physical overhaul brings more freedom, creativity, and self-worth then the process will add to the person’s depth and happiness. It would be a step closer to realising one’s inestimable worth. If the overhaul doesn’t do that then it is decorating skeletons.”

— Donna Goddard

145. “We pay with love for the love we have been given.”

— Donna Goddard

146. “When you can be still and still dance, you are a great dancer. When you can move and still be still, you are a greater dancer.”

— Donna Goddard

147. “Artists see the invisible before anyone else.”

— Donna Goddard

148. “Love is to free, not to imprison.”

— Donna Goddard

149. “All of creation wants to create through you. You are not your body and you are not in your body. Your body is in Life. Use it until you need it no more and then you will be happy to release it.”

— Donna Goddard

150. “We are no one else. We are ourselves. We must be that, with no regrets, if we wish to be happy. If we keep going forward, following our own natural, intuitive, and sincere path then all things will have a tendency to align with what is a good intention.”

— Donna Goddard