Top 160 Donna Goddard Quotes (2026 Update)
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101. “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

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. “Read minds more than minding words.”

— Donna Goddard

108. “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.”

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109. “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

110. “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

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

— Donna Goddard

112. “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

113. “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

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. “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

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

— Donna Goddard

119. “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

120. “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

121. “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

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

— Donna Goddard

123. “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

124. “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

125. “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

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

— Donna Goddard

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

— Donna Goddard

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

— Donna Goddard

129. “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

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

— Donna Goddard

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

— Donna Goddard

132. “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

133. “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

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

— Donna Goddard

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

— Donna Goddard

136. “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

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

— Donna Goddard

138. “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

139. “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

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

— Donna Goddard

141. “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

142. “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

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

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144. “We mustn’t withdraw from human interaction because it can be difficult. It keeps us grounded and helps us to grow through real and challenging situations. We do not need to decide which community to belong to. We just live life to the best of our ability and follow our interests and we will find ourselves within a community of people perfect for our growth.”

— Donna Goddard

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

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146. “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

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

— Donna Goddard

148. “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

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

— Donna Goddard