Top 200 Mata Amritanandamayi Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Love is the only medicine that can heal the wounds of the world.”

— Mata Amritanandamayi

2. “Don’t be discouraged by your incapacity to dispel darkness from the world. Light your little candle and step forward.”

— Mata Amritanandamayi

3. “While carrying responsibilities, never forget to smile.”

— Mata Amritanandamayi

4. “Education for livelihood alone will never make our life full and complete.”

— Mata Amritanandamayi

5. “Be like the honeybee who gathers only nectar wherever it goes. Seek the goodness that is found in everyone.”

— Mata Amritanandamayi

6. “By living in harmony with Nature one gains a healthy mind and body.”

— Mata Amritanandamayi

7. “Thankfulness is a humble, open and prayerful attitude that helps you receive more of God’s grace.”

— Mata Amritanandamayi

8. “Develop the ability to stand back as a witness to your thoughts. This will make your mind strong.”

— Mata Amritanandamayi

9. “Keep a constant awareness and a conscious effort to say good words, perform good actions, and to practice patience and compassion.”

— Mata Amritanandamayi

10. “Chant your mantra while engaged in work. This way, the mind will be continuously focused on Him.”

— Mata Amritanandamayi

11. “Look carefully at what is of value in others and respect that.”

— Mata Amritanandamayi

12. “The only way we can feel free is by feeling the pure love within.”

— Mata Amritanandamayi

13. “Where there is love, distance doesn’t matter.”

— Mata Amritanandamayi

14. “Our educational system needs to give equal importance to the intellect and the heart.”

— Mata Amritanandamayi

15. “Purify the mind through selfless service.”

— Mata Amritanandamayi

16. “Smiling is one of the highest forms of meditation.”

— Mata Amritanandamayi

17. “Look upon others as being part of yourself.”

— Mata Amritanandamayi

18. “God realization and self-realization are one and the same. God-realization is nothing but the ability and expansiveness of heart to love everything equally.”

— Mata Amritanandamayi

19. “When humanity serves Nature, Nature serves humanity. When we serve animals and plants, they too serve us in return.”

— Mata Amritanandamayi

20. “Keep the child within alive. A child never tires of hearing the birds sing, never gets bored looking at flowers.”

— Mata Amritanandamayi

21. “Don’t get angry. Try not to speak roughly or use harsh words.”

— Mata Amritanandamayi

22. “Intellectual prowess has its limitations. Thus, do not limit the scope of your learning to the realm of the intellect.”

— Mata Amritanandamayi

23. “The language of love is the language of humility or humbleness.”

— Mata Amritanandamayi

24. “Make a firm decision: ‘Whatever happens, I will be happy. I will be strong. God is always with me.’”

— Mata Amritanandamayi

25. “If we keep holding on to God, there is nothing to fear.”

— Mata Amritanandamayi

26. “True happiness is when the love that is within us finds expression in external activities.”

— Mata Amritanandamayi

27. “Progress is not possible without discipline. A nation, institution, family or individual can advance only by heeding the words of those who deserve respect and by obeying the appropriate rules and regulations. Children, obedience is not weakness. Obedience with humility leads to discipline.”

— Mata Amritanandamayi

28. “Those that have an attitude of service towards others are the beauty of society.”

— Mata Amritanandamayi

29. “Nowadays everybody wants to become a leader. No one wants to become a servant. In reality, the world is badly in need of servants, not leaders. A real servant is a real leader.”

— Mata Amritanandamayi

30. “When people live in accordance with Nature, the song of life becomes sweet.”

— Mata Amritanandamayi

31. “Learn to be thankful to everyone, to the entire creation, even to your enemy and also to those who insult, because they all help you to grow.”

— Mata Amritanandamayi

32. “Transcending the cycle of death and rebirth is the real purpose of this life in human form.”

— Mata Amritanandamayi

33. “What makes Amma happy, is to see her children helping others to feel happy.”

— Mata Amritanandamayi

34. “When someone is full of Love and Compassion, he cannot draw a line between two countries, two faiths or two religions.”

— Mata Amritanandamayi

35. “Finding fault in others, just for the sake of finding fault, we will pollute our own minds.”

— Mata Amritanandamayi

36. “We must remember that man is not an island, totally isolated and disconnected from others. We are all part of a universal chain, or the universal consciousness. What happens to one happens to all.”

— Mata Amritanandamayi

37. “Love and spiritual values received from parents are the strongest assets for a child to face the various trials of adulthood.”

— Mata Amritanandamayi

38. “Love one another without any expectations. Then, there is no need to go anywhere in search of heaven.”

— Mata Amritanandamayi

39. “Too much concern about physical security and too little concern about spirituality is the hallmark of today’s world.”

— Mata Amritanandamayi

40. “Spiritual love is without limits or boundaries. Worldly love is superficial and fluctuating.”

— Mata Amritanandamayi

41. “In times of tragedies, our duty is to lend a helping hand to those in grief and thus light lamps of kindness and compassion.”

— Mata Amritanandamayi

42. “If japa is maintained, no useless talk during work will be possible. The mind will always remain peaceful. Modern day diseases are mostly psychosomatic. Japa will bestow good health to both mind and body.”

— Mata Amritanandamayi

43. “A person’s destiny can be changed through the power of a saint.”

— Mata Amritanandamayi

44. “There is the path of karma, selfless action, the path of love and devotion, the path of training the mind and the path of Yoga, mantra and tantra this is what the various saints advocated.”

— Mata Amritanandamayi

45. “The change will only happen outside once we change within ourselves.”

— Mata Amritanandamayi

46. “Group chanting and prayer is very powerful. It can bring important changes.”

— Mata Amritanandamayi

47. “Once you learn the art of relaxation, everything happens spontaneously and effortlessly.”

— Mata Amritanandamayi

48. “Look at Nature. Nature is a book from which we must learn. Each object in it is a page of that book.”

— Mata Amritanandamayi

49. “We are all beads strung together on the same thread of love.”

— Mata Amritanandamayi

50. “Real life is developed from within. Real living means that the soul expresses itself through all one’s thoughts, words and actions. A person becomes fearless once he understands the nature of the imperishable soul.”

— Mata Amritanandamayi