Timeless Inspirational and Spiritual Quotes to Uplift Your Soul

"You can't have a physical transformation until you have a spiritual transformation."

- Cory Booker

"Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life."

- Buddha

"We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience."

- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

"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

"Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude."

- Denis Waitley

"The essential lesson I've learned in life is to just be yourself. Treasure the magnificent being that you are and recognize first and foremost you're not here as a human being only. You're a spiritual being having a human experience."

- Wayne Dyer

"The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and the acceptance of love."

- Marianne Williamson

"Love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who spitefully use you and persecute you."

- Jesus Christ

"Do to others as you would have them do to you."

- Jesus

"Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have. Make the Now the primary focus of your life."

- Eckhart Tolle

"Don’t think about the past. Just be here now. Don’t think about the future. Just be here now."

- Ram Dass

"If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am only for myself, what am I? And if not now, when?"

- Hillel the Elder

"The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it."

- Eckhart Tolle

"Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God."

- Jesus Christ

"Let the little children come to Me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these."

- Jesus Christ

"Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you."

- Jesus Christ

"What the caterpillar calls the end of the world; the master calls a butterfly."

- Richard Bach

"The quieter you become, the more you can hear."

- Buddha

"We’re all just walking each other home."

- Ram Dass

"I would like my life to be a statement of love and compassion—and where it isn’t, that’s where my work lies."

- Ram Dass

"Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it."

- Ernest Holmes

"We are surrounded by an infinite Possibility. It is goodness, life, law, and reason. In expressing itself through us, it becomes more fully conscious of its own being."

- Dr. Ernest Holmes

"Change your thinking, change your life."

- Dr. Ernest Holmes

"The spirit is the actor, the body is the stage, and the physical form is but the vehicle through which the invisible passes into the visible."

- Dr. Ernest Holmes

"We must consciously know that we can use the creative power of the universe for good—and then proceed to do so."

- Dr. Ernest Holmes

"Peace is the spot between your thoughts and between your breath."

- Carol Carnes

"It is our spiritual duty to love and embrace our essential self."

- Carol Carnes

"Life gives us what we pay attention to. What we focus on expands and becomes real."

- Carol Carnes

"Chaos provides an opportunity for things to come apart, while meditation stabilizes you, your home, and your world."

- Carol Carnes

"If you are in love with yourself, you have nothing to hide."

- Carol Carnes

"There is nothing to fix but something to know. There is nothing to heal but something to reveal. God doesn’t fix but reveals our wholeness."

- Carol Carnes

"You are greater than your experience. You are always creating your experience."

- Carol Carnes

"The way in is the way out of what troubles you."

- Carol Carnes

"The first step to becoming conscious is noticing what you add after the phrase, I AM."

- Carol Carnes

"When you live in complete acceptance of what is, that is the end of all drama in your life."

- Eckhart Tolle

"You find peace not by rearranging the circumstances of your life, but by realizing who you are at the deepest level."

- Eckhart Tolle

"A life is either all spiritual or not spiritual at all. No man can serve two masters. Your life is shaped by the end you live for. You are made in the image of what you desire."

- Thomas Merton

"Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"The degree of freedom from unwanted thoughts and the degree of concentration on a single thought are the measures to gauge spiritual progress."

- Ramana Maharshi

"The soul always knows what to do to heal itself. The challenge is to silence the mind."

- Caroline Myss

"Fight the good fight of faith, and God will give you spiritual mercies."

- George Whitefield

"It is the unseen and the spiritual in people that determines the outward and the actual."

- Oswald Chambers

"A rebirth out of spiritual adversity causes us to become new creatures."

- James E. Faust

"When people get married because they think it's a long-time love affair, they'll be divorced very soon, because all love affairs end in disappointment. But marriage is a recognition of a spiritual identity."

- Joseph Campbell

"Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage, not to establish over them a spiritual tyranny, but to rouse them from lethargy, and to aid them to judge for themselves."

- William Ellery Channing

"I have a strong belief in God... I find religion to be a very personal thing... I am also very spiritual."

- Sela Ward

"It is through gratitude for the present moment that the spiritual dimension of life opens up."

- Eckhart Tolle

"Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"True prayer is neither a mere mental exercise nor a vocal performance. It is far deeper than that - it is spiritual transaction with the Creator of Heaven and Earth."

- Charles Spurgeon

"Maturity is the ability to think, speak and act your feelings within the bounds of dignity. The measure of your maturity is how spiritual you become during the midst of your frustrations."

- Samuel Ullman

"Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction."

- E. O. Wilson

"Man has two great spiritual needs. One is for forgiveness. The other is for goodness."

- Billy Graham

"The decision to serve a mission will shape the spiritual destiny of the missionary, his or her spouse, and their posterity for generations to come. A desire to serve is a natural outcome of one's conversion, worthiness, and preparation."

- Russell M. Nelson

"Man learns through experience, and the spiritual path is full of different kinds of experiences. He will encounter many difficulties and obstacles, and they are the very experiences he needs to encourage and complete the cleansing process."

- Sai Baba

"It is not the end of the physical body that should worry us. Rather, our concern must be to live while we're alive - to release our inner selves from the spiritual death that comes with living behind a facade designed to conform to external definitions of who and what we are."

- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

"One of the greatest indicators of our own spiritual maturity is revealed in how we respond to the weaknesses, the inexperience, and the potentially offensive actions of others."

- David A. Bednar

"Enlightened leadership is spiritual if we understand spirituality not as some kind of religious dogma or ideology but as the domain of awareness where we experience values like truth, goodness, beauty, love and compassion, and also intuition, creativity, insight and focused attention."

- Deepak Chopra

"Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Make friends with the angels, who though invisible are always with you. Often invoke them, constantly praise them, and make good use of their help and assistance in all your temporal and spiritual affairs."

- Saint Francis de Sales

"Religion is meant to teach us true spiritual human character. It is meant for self-transformation. It is meant to transform anxiety into peace, arrogance into humility, envy into compassion, to awaken the pure soul in man and his love for the Source, which is God."

- Radhanath Swami

"The sin which is indulged to the greatest extent, which separates us from God and produces so many spiritual disorders, and which are contagious, is selfishness."

- Ellen G. White

"Surrender is the simple but profound wisdom of yielding to rather than opposing the flow of life."

- Eckhart Tolle

"All the things that truly matter—beauty, love, creativity, joy, inner peace—arise from beyond the mind."

- Eckhart Tolle

"By being wounded, you became vulnerable and available; by being lost, you were able to be found; by dying, you learned the power of new birth; by forgetting, you gained the joy of remembering."

- Jean Houston

"I have come to believe that life is allied with myth in order that we may advance along an evolutionary path that carries us nearer to the spiritual source of life."

- Jean Houston

"The wounding becomes sacred when we are willing to release our old stories and to become the vehicles through which the new story may emerge into time."

- Jean Houston

"We all have the extraordinary coded within us, waiting to be released."

- Jean Houston

"To achieve the greatest success, you have to embrace the prospect of failure."

- Caroline Myss

"Every choice we make, every thought and feeling we have, is an act of power that has biological, environmental, social, personal, and global consequences."

- Caroline Myss

"Healing requires self-honesty, and with that comes self-responsibility."

- Caroline Myss

"Every life has a spiritual purpose, and every person plays a role in the spiritual development of others."

- Caroline Myss

"The power of your words is a sacred gift. Use them wisely."

- Caroline Myss

"Archetypes are the psychic lenses through which we view ourselves and the world around us. They shape our inner and outer perceptions and provide a spiritual language to understand our life’s purpose."

- Caroline Myss

"Being at ease with not knowing is crucial for answers to come to you."

- Eckhart Tolle

"We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves."

- Dalai Lama XIV

"Spiritual identity means we are not what we do or what people say about us. And we are not what we have. We are the beloved daughters and sons of God."

- Henri Nouwen

"You have to be in the world to understand what the spiritual is about, and you have to be spiritual in order to truly be able to accept what the world is about."

- Mary Oliver

"The spiritual life does not remove us from the world but leads us deeper into it."

- Henri J.M. Nouwen

"You are never alone. You are eternally connected with everyone."

- Amit Ray

"Sometimes I think there are only two instructions we need to follow to develop and deepen our spiritual life: slow down and let go."

- Oriah Mountain Dreamer

"At any moment, you have a choice, that either leads you closer to your spirit or further away from it."

- Thich Nhat Hanh

"You are never alone or helpless. The force that guides the stars, guides you too."

- Shrii Shrii Anandamurti

"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is."

- Albert Einstein

"I think a spiritual journey is not so much a journey of discovery. It's a journey of recovery. It's a journey of uncovering your own inner nature. It's already there."

- Billy Corgan

"Do anything, but let it produce joy."

- Walt Whitman

"There is a light within our soul that burns brighter than the sun. And we ignore it."

- Basith

"All that you are is all around you."

- Stephen Richards

"And because the universe dances, as the man from Ghana explains to me later, ‘he who does not dance does not know what happens.'"

- Jean Houston

"The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere."

- Michel de Montaigne

"There are two kinds of guilt: the kind that drowns you until you're useless, and the kind that fires your soul to purpose."

- Sabaa Tahir

"May I be so bold as to offer you a gift? If I may, read on. I gift you with the courage to be, to know deeply the divine design of your life."

- Jean Houston

"Wake up and live."

- Bob Marley

"We are all connected; To each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe atomically."

- Neil deGrasse Tyson

"There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."

- Anais Nin

"A bad day for your ego is a great day for your soul."

- Jillian Michaels

"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as if nothing is a miracle. The other is as if everything is a miracle."

- Albert Einstein

"And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it."

- Roald Dahl

"What might have been can be with Cosmic Ordering."

- Stephen Richards

"Believe all things are possible with Cosmic Ordering."

- Stephen Richards

"We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures."

- Thornton Wilder

"Be fearless in the pursuit of what sets your soul on fire."

- Jennifer Lee

"Take care of your inner, spiritual beauty. That will reflect in your face."

- Dolores del Rio

"Spirituality is about men and women declaring their wholeness."

- Carol Carnes

"Vitality trumps age. Vitality is an eagerness to learn, to engage in new activities and to put our minds and bodies to a test."

- Carol Carnes

"Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards."

- Søren Kierkegaard

"Ultimately there is a bridge, a lifeline, a flow that transcends all distinctions of self and other and fosters a single reality of harmony and oneness."

- Clark Moustakas

"The best we can do for others is to affirm All Is Well."

- Carol Carnes

"The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other’s life."

- Richard Bach

"Here is a test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: If you’re alive, it isn’t."

- Richard Bach

"The challenge to modern religion is to love humanity more than its dogma."

- Carol Carnes

"Most people believe they are a victim of someone or some circumstance. Being a victim is a perception of powerlessness and is a lie we tell ourselves."

- Carol Carnes

"Your problem is you’re too busy holding on to your unworthiness."

- Ram Dass

"When you know how to listen, everybody is the guru."

- Ram Dass

"Now, with God’s help, I shall become myself."

- Søren Kierkegaard

"The reason we feel frustrated with ourselves is there is something desiring to develop inside."

- Carol Carnes

"The universe depends on movement, on action and on self-initiating."

- Carol Carnes

"What in you needs to get moving? What thought, belief or feeling has you stuck?"

- Carol Carnes

"To be sure, God does not live in me as I am. He dwells wherever man lets Him in."

- Martin Buber

"Spirit is not in the I but between I and You. Through the Thou, a person becomes I."

- Martin Buber

"True imagination is not fanciful daydreaming; it is fire from heaven."

- Dr. Ernest Holmes

"I know clearly and fully that to move any human being, i must touch, within the person, rhythms of life itself, rhythms that will create a shift with reference to movement, energy, and actions."

- Clark Moustakas

"Like Martin Buber, I believe that one’s own affirmation of oneself is crucial, even if that means that one will not be confirmed by others."

- Clark Moustakas

"Energy can't be created or destroyed, and energy flows. It must be in a direction, with some kind of internal, emotive, spiritual direction. It must have some effect somewhere."

- Keanu Reeves

"Keep your feet on the ground, but let your heart soar as high as it will. Refuse to be average or to surrender to the chill of your spiritual environment."

- Arthur Helps

"Form follows function - that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union."

- Frank Lloyd Wright

"Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world."

- George Eliot

"Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life."

- Ludwig van Beethoven

"Man cannot live without joy; therefore when he is deprived of true spiritual joys it is necessary that he become addicted to carnal pleasures."

- Thomas Aquinas

"Music is very spiritual, it has the power to bring people together."

- Edgar Winter

"Humility is not cowardice. Meekness is not weakness. Humility and meekness are indeed spiritual powers."

- Swami Sivananda

"Forgiveness means you are not allowing them to stay anywhere in your mind."

- Invajy

"Love in its essence is spiritual fire."

- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

"I beg you be persuaded that no one would be more zealous than myself to establish effectual barriers against the horrors of spiritual tyranny, and every species of religious persecution."

- George Washington

"Your political views really denote your spiritual views."

- Alanis Morissette

"I'm not a religious person. I'm Catholic, so I consider myself more of a spiritual person. I believe in God."

- Tracey Gold

"The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another's, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises."

- Leo Buscaglia

"Self-control means wanting to be effective at some random point in the infinite radiations of my spiritual existence."

- Franz Kafka

"Words are also seeds, and when dropped into the invisible spiritual substance, they grow and bring forth after their kind."

- Charles Fillmore

"A museum is a spiritual place. People lower their voices when they get close to art."

- Mario Botta

"I want to congratulate all the men out there who are working diligently to be good fathers whether they are stepfathers, or biological fathers or just spiritual fathers."

- T. D. Jakes

"Jobs fill your pocket, but adventures fill your soul."

- Jamie Lyn Beatty

"You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore."

- Christopher Columbus

"Just when you start to think that the rain will last forever, the Universe will part the clouds and send you the most stunning rainbow you've ever seen."

"A life dedicated to serving others is the life we should all aspire to live."

"Those who move forward with a happy spirit will find that things will always work out."

"The best way to live a life of positivity and optimism is to believe, all the way to your soul, that you deserve it."

"Listen. That little voice is your soul leading you to your purpose."

"Follow feelings of ease and joy to find out where your soul would like to take you."

"Don't force it; if there isn't flow, let it go."

"My life is never influenced by death because I am full of resurrections after so many spiritual and emotional demises."

"The ego gets what it wants with words. The soul finds what it needs in silence."

"The Universe is always ready to provide more. The real question is, are you ready to receive it?"

"Whatever it is that stirs your soul, listen to that. Everything else is just noise."

"The easiest way to keep your spirits high is by spreading your kindness to others."

"Being the light of the world is about being a broken, exploding, scarred star and shining a light of hope and inspiration to everyone around you."

"All teachings are mere references. The true experience is living your own life. Then, even the holiest of words are only words."

"Deep soul searching is required for finding your true north."

"When you realize nothing is lacking, the whole world belongs to you."

"When your intentions are pure, the universe will part ways for you."

"Sometimes you gotta stop worrying, wondering and doubting. Have faith that things will work out. Maybe not how you planned. But how they were meant to be."