Top 40 Spiritual Quotes (2023 Update)

1. “What you seek is seeking you.”

— Rumi

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2. “You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.”

— Swami Vivekananda

3. “How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.”

— Wayne W. Dyer

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4. “The cure for pain is in the pain.”

— Rumi

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5. “Whatever happens, take responsibility.”

— Tony Robbins

6. “Meditation is not a way of making your mind quiet. It is a way of entering into the quiet that is already there – buried under the 50,000 thoughts the average person thinks every day.”

— Deepak Chopra

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7. “When a train goes through a tunnel and it gets dark, you don’t throw away the ticket and jump off. You sit still and trust the engineer.”

— Corrie ten Boom

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8. “Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.”

— Erich Fromm

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9. “In today’s rush we all think too much, seek too much, want too much and forget about the joy of just Being.”

— Eckhart Tolle

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10. “I once had a thousand desires. But in my one desire to know you, all else melted away.”

— Rumi

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11. “It’s not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean.”

— Tony Robbins

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12. “The spiritual journey is individual, highly personal. It can’t be organized or regulated. It isn’t true that everyone should follow one path. Listen to your own truth.”

— Ram Dass

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13. “Faith is a passionate intuition.”

— William Wordsworth

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14. “When you are offended at any man’s fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.”

— Epictetus

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15. “Study me as much as you like, you will not know me, for I differ in a hundred ways from what you see me to be. Put yourself behind my eyes and see me as I see myself, for I have chosen to dwell in a place you cannot see.”

— Rumi

16. “Dance, when you’re broken open. Dance, if you’ve torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of the fighting. Dance in your blood. Dance when you’re perfectly free.”

— Rumi

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17. “When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.”

— Wayne W. Dyer

18. “To love beauty is to see light.”

— Victor Hugo

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19. “It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

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20. “Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.”

— Pema Chödrön

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21. “But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?”

— Mark Twain

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22. “Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

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23. “People only see what they are prepared to see.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

24. “If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.”

— Albert Einstein

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25. “All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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26. “Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life.”

— Wayne W. Dyer

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27. “Whatever relationships you have attracted in your life at this moment, are precisely the ones you need in your life at this moment. There is a hidden meaning behind all events, and this hidden meaning is serving your own evolution.”

— Deepak Chopra

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28. “Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.”

— Helen Keller

29. “Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.”

— Jim Rohn

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30. “Expect great things from God, attempt great things for God.”

— William Carey

31. “To go out of your mind at least once a day is tremendously important. By going out of your mind, you come to your senses.”

— Alan Watts

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32. “I offer you peace. I offer you love. I offer you friendship. I see your beauty. I hear your need. I feel your feelings.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

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33. “The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That's the day we truly grow up.”

— John C. Maxwell

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34. “We find comfort among those who agree with us – growth among those who don’t.”

— Frank A. Clark

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35. “Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.”

— Saint Augustine

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36. “Come, come, whoever you are. Wanderer, worshiper, lover of leaving. It doesn’t matter. Ours is not a caravan of despair. come, even if you have broken your vows a thousand times. Come, yet again, come, come.”

— Rumi

37. “There is not one blade of grass, there is no color in this world that is not intended to make us rejoice.”

— John Calvin

38. “You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.”

— Maya Angelou

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39. “Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words.”

— Francis of Assisi

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40. “There’s nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child.”

— Erma Bombeck

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