Top 160 Donna Goddard Quotes (2026 Update)
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101. “If you must dream a dream, at least, make it a happy dream.”

— Donna Goddard

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

— Donna Goddard

103. “Not knowing the DNA we carry in our bodies, hearts, and minds. does not negate it. We are an accumulation of many people, even more so when unaware of it. Once aware, we can choose what to carry and what to relegate to history.”

— Donna Goddard

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

— Donna Goddard

105. “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

106. “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

107. “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

108. “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

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

— Donna Goddard

110. “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

111. “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

112. “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

113. “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

114. “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

115. “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

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

— Donna Goddard

117. “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

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. “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

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

— Donna Goddard

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

— Donna Goddard

122. “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

123. “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

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

— Donna Goddard

125. “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

126. “If we learn not to grab, insist, manipulate, or force then the precious moments have more chance of just appearing, usually when we are not looking. They may even stay a little longer, if we do not grasp onto them insisting that they do not move. With practice, consistency, and commitment to the evolution of the partnership, something beautiful and meaningful has a chance of evolving.”

— Donna Goddard

127. “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

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

— Donna Goddard

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

— Donna Goddard

130. “Above all, I wish to see.”

— Donna Goddard

131. “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

132. “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

133. “Those we love become our teachers whether we intend it or not.”

— Donna Goddard

134. “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

135. “Every wonderful quality “in” someone is waiting to be recognized in all of life’s great symphony.”

— Donna Goddard

136. “If we can see the little things, we can see the entire universe.”

— Donna Goddard

137. “There is an aid for helping us to learn how to distinguish between the ego way and the higher way. It is pain. The ego way inevitably leads to pain, even if it seems to temporarily satisfy. The higher way does not. It works. And it works harmoniously. It brings the sort of success that has no bitter after-taste. It is not manipulative. It doesn’t play one person against another. It doesn’t feed anyone’s fantasies. It is honest and it protects the good.”

— Donna Goddard

138. “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

139. “There is so much more.”

— Donna Goddard

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

— Donna Goddard

141. “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

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

— Donna Goddard

143. “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

144. “Relationships are valuable no matter who they are between.”

— Donna Goddard

145. “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

146. “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

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

— Donna Goddard

148. “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

149. “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

150. “Read minds more than minding words.”

— Donna Goddard