Top 160 Donna Goddard Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “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

102. “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

103. “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.”

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104. “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

105. “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

106. “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.”

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107. “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.”

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108. “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.”

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109. “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.”

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110. “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.”

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111. “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

112. “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

113. “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.”

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114. “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.”

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

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

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117. “The question is: do you want suffering or do you want peace? It’s that simple.”

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

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119. “Every grievance you hold hides a little more of the light of the world from your eyes until the darkness becomes overwhelming. Everything you forgive restores that light. So ask yourself, who is it that you are really hurting?”

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

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121. “Spiritual principles, if true, are true for everyone. That is the yardstick that validates their authenticity. Authentic spiritual ideas also have the universal power to heal. Healing is the building block of both individual and collective spiritual evolution.”

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122. “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

123. “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

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

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

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

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

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128. “The threads of interconnectedness are complex. They are both fragile and unbreakable. One must be grateful for destiny’s gifts along the way.”

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

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130. “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.”

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

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132. “In the bedroom, three are present – the two partners and the Divine. Use the openness and vulnerability of the sexual arena to grow closer to God and give that same gift to your loved one.”

— Donna Goddard

133. “Even though we have a body which can thrive and be used for beautiful things, it is the changeless soul which connects.”

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134. “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

135. “Love is its own reward.”

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

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137. “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.”

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138. “That which holds us all together is very delicate.”

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

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140. “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.”

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

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142. “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

143. “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

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

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145. “There is so much more.”

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

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147. “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.”

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

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149. “Read minds more than minding words.”

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

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