Top 80 Jay Shetty Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “People come into your life for a reason, a season or a lifetime.”

— Jay Shetty

2. “When we acknowledge that all of our blessings are like a fancy rental car or a beautiful Airbnb, we are free to enjoy them without living in constant fear of losing them. We are all the lucky vacationers enjoying our stay in Hotel Earth.”

— Jay Shetty

3. “There is toxicity everywhere around us. In the environment, in the political atmosphere, but the origin is in people’s hearts. Unless we clean the ecology of our own heart and inspire others to do the same, we will be an instrument of polluting the environment. But if we create purity in our own heart, then we can contribute great purity to the world around us.”

— Jay Shetty

4. “When you learn a little, you feel you know a lot. But when you learn a lot, you realize you know very little.”

— Jay Shetty

5. “If you are satisfied with who you are, you don’t need to prove your worth to anyone else.”

— Jay Shetty

6. “The grass is greener where you water it.”

— Jay Shetty

7. “Remember, saying whatever we want, whenever we want, however we want, is not freedom. Real freedom is not feeling the need to say these things.”

— Jay Shetty

8. “If you don’t break your ego, life will break it for you.”

— Jay Shetty

9. “Every night when I’m falling asleep, I say to myself, “I am relaxed, energized, and focused. I am calm, enthusiastic, and productive.”

— Jay Shetty

10. “It is impossible to build one’s own happiness on the unhappiness of others.”

— Jay Shetty

11. “Happiness and fulfillment come only from mastering the mind and connecting with the soul – not from objects or attainments. Success doesn’t guarantee happiness, and happiness doesn’t require success.”

— Jay Shetty

12. “Letting go gives us freedom, and freedom is the only condition for happiness.”

— Jay Shetty

13. “Life is not going to go your way. You have to go your way and take life with you.”

— Jay Shetty

14. “Location has energy; time has memory. If you do something at the same time every day, it becomes easier and natural. If you do something in the same space every day, it becomes easier and natural.”

— Jay Shetty

15. “Salt is so humble that when something goes wrong, it takes the blame, and when everything goes right, it doesn’t take credit.”

— Jay Shetty

16. “In 1902, the sociologist Charles Horton Cooley wrote: “I am not what I think I am, and I am not what you think I am. I am what I think you think I am.”

— Jay Shetty

17. “To walk down the same old path and find a new stone is to open your mind.”

— Jay Shetty

18. “Loneliness makes us rush into relationships; it keeps us in the wrong relationships; and it urges us to accept less than we deserve. We.”

— Jay Shetty

19. “Cancers of the Mind: Comparing, Complaining, Criticizing.”

— Jay Shetty

20. “Being present is the only way to live a truly rich and full life.”

— Jay Shetty

21. “Plant Trees Under Whose Shade You Do Not Plan to Sit.”

— Jay Shetty

22. “Clinging to temporary things gives them power over us, and they become sources of pain and fear. But when we accept the temporary nature of everything in our lives, we can feel gratitude for the good fortune of getting to borrow them for a time. Even the most permanent of possessions, belonging to the most wealthy and powerful, don’t actually belong to them. This is just as true for the rest of us.”

— Jay Shetty

23. “The arrogant ego desires respect, whereas the humble worker inspires respect.”

— Jay Shetty

24. “As long as we keep attaching our happiness to the external events of our lives, which are ever changing, we’ll always be left waiting for it.”

— Jay Shetty

25. “But when we look for the good in others, we start to see the best in ourselves too.”

— Jay Shetty

26. “Sometimes we can trace our fears through the actions we take, and sometimes it’s the actions we’re reluctant to take.”

— Jay Shetty

27. “Too often we love people who don’t love us, but we fail to return the love of others who do.”

— Jay Shetty

28. “Actually, the greatest detachment is being close to everything and not letting it consume and own you. That’s real strength.”

— Jay Shetty

29. “Love is a gift without any strings attached. This means that with it comes the knowledge that not all relationships are meant to endure with equal strength indefinitely. Remember that you are also a season, a reason, and a lifetime friend to different people at different times, and the role you play in someone else’s life won’t always match the role they play in yours.”

— Jay Shetty

30. “When monks talk about happiness, they tell the story of the musk deer, a tale derived from a poem by Kabir, a fifteenth-century Indian mystic and poet. The musk deer picks up an irresistible scent in the forest and chases it, searching for the source, not realizing that the scent comes from its own pores. It spends its whole life wandering fruitlessly. In the same way we search for happiness, finding it elusive, when it can be found within us.”

— Jay Shetty

31. “Love is not about staging the perfect proposal or creating a perfect relationship. It’s about learning to navigate the imperfections that are intrinsic to ourselves, our partners, and life itself.”

— Jay Shetty

32. “Sometimes people jump from relationship to relationship because they’re trying to avoid the challenges that love requires. You could date someone new every three months and have a lot of fun. But there is no growth in the cycle of just flirting, hooking up, and ditching. It is this ongoing growth and understanding that helps us sustain the fun of love, the connection of love, the trust of love, the reward of love. If we never commit, we’ll never get to love.”

— Jay Shetty

33. “When we accept the temporary nature of everything in our lives, we can feel gratitude for the good fortune of getting to borrow them for a time.”

— Jay Shetty

34. “Revenge is the mode of ignorance – it’s often said that you can’t fix yourself by breaking someone else. Monks don’t hinge their choices and feelings on others’ behaviors. You believe revenge will make you feel better because of how the other person will react.”

— Jay Shetty

35. “Life’s too short to live without purpose, to lose our chance to serve, to let our dreams and aspirations die with us.”

— Jay Shetty

36. “The difference between loneliness and solitude is the lens through which we see our time alone, and how we use that time. The lens of loneliness makes us insecure and prone to bad decisions. The lens of solitude makes us open and curious. As such, solitude is the foundation on which we build our love.”

— Jay Shetty

37. “Here’s the life hack: Service is always the answer. It fixes a bad day. It tempers the burdens we bear. Service helps other people and helps us. We don’t expect anything in return, but what we get is the joy of service. It’s an exchange of love. When you’re living in service, you don’t have time to complain and criticize. When you’re living in service, your fears go away. When you’re living in service, you feel grateful. Your material attachments diminish.”

— Jay Shetty

38. “One of the secrets to a good relationship is being attracted to someone out of choice rather than out of need.”

— Jay Shetty

39. “The one constant through your life is breath. All your friends, your family, the country you live in, all of that can change. Breath is with you always.” This ten-year-old monk added, “When you get stressed – what changes? Your breath. When you get angry – what changes? Your breath. We experience every emotion with the change of the breath. When you learn to navigate and manage your breath, you can navigate any situation in life.”

— Jay Shetty

40. “Revenge is the mode of ignorance – it’s often said that you can’t fix yourself by breaking someone else.”

— Jay Shetty

41. “Because the only thing that stays with you from the moment you’re born until the moment you die is your breath. All your friends, your family, the country you live in, all of that can change. The one thing that stays with you is your breath.”

— Jay Shetty

42. “If you follow your bliss, he said, “doors will open for you that wouldn’t have opened for anyone else.”

— Jay Shetty

43. “May all beings everywhere be happy and free, and may the thoughts, words, and actions of my own life contribute in some way to that happiness and to that freedom for all.”

— Jay Shetty

44. “Alone, we learn to love ourselves, to understand ourselves, to heal our own pain, and to care for ourselves.”

— Jay Shetty

45. “When you learn to navigate and manage your breath, you can navigate any situation in life.”

— Jay Shetty

46. “Jim Carrey once said, “I think everybody should get rich and famous and do everything they ever dreamed of, so they can see that it’s not the answer.”

— Jay Shetty

47. “I wish” is code for “I don’t want to do anything differently.”

— Jay Shetty

48. “The more we define ourselves in relation to the people around us, the more lost we are.”

— Jay Shetty

49. “In getting you where you want to be, meditation may show you what you don’t want to see.”

— Jay Shetty

50. “Mudita is the principle of taking sympathetic or unselfish joy in the good fortune of others. If I only find joy in my own successes, I’m limiting my joy. But if I can take pleasure in the successes of my friends and family – ten, twenty, fifty people! – I get to experience fifty times the happiness and joy. Who doesn’t want that?”

— Jay Shetty