Best Spirituality Quotes

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.

Love the animals, love the plants, love everything. If you love everything, you will perceive the divine mystery in things. Once you perceive it, you will begin to comprehend it better every day. And you will come at last to love the whole world with an all-embracing love.

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having.

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

Religion is for people who fear hell, spirituality is for people who have been there.

The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.

When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.

If you light a lamp for somebody, it will also brighten your path.

Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live in every experience, painful or joyous, to live in gratitude for every moment, to live abundantly.

For the spiritual being, intuition is far more than a hunch. It is viewed as guidance or as God talking, and this inner insight is never taken lightly or ignored.

We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.

Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit.

Life is simple. Everything happens for you, not to you. Everything happens at exactly the right moment, neither too soon nor too late. You don’t have to like it… it’s just easier if you do.

You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.

Spirituality: the last refuge of a failed human. Just another way of distracting yourself from who you really are.

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

We must have the faith that things will work out somehow, that God will make a way for us when there seems no way.

The vocation, whether it be that of the farmer or the architect, is a function; the exercise of this function as regards the man himself is the most indispensable means of spiritual development, and as regards his relation to society the measure of his worth.

The man who craves disciples and wants followers is always more or less of a charlatan. The man of genuine worth and insight wants to be himself; and he wants others to be themselves, also.

Materialism and spirituality are two pretty racquets with which charlatans in cap and gown make the same ball fly.

Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.

The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just on the body, but the soul. Share the botanical bliss of gardeners through the ages, who have cultivated philosophies to apply to their own – and our own – lives: Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are.

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.

Imagination is more important than knowledge. Imagination is the language of the soul. Pay attention to your imagination and you will discover all you need to be fulfilled.

For the very reason that we expect things to be good and beautiful, they won’t be. In genuine spirituality, we don’t look for bliss.

Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.

Spirituality practiced in the state of activity is incomparably superior to that practiced in a state of withdrawal.

Great beauty, great strength, and great riches are really and truly of no great use; a right heart exceeds all

As long as I can remember I feel I have had this great creative and spiritual force within me that is greater than faith, greater than ambition, greater than confidence, greater than determination, greater than vision. It is all these combined. My brain becomes magnetized with this dominating force which I hold in my hand.

No circumstances can ever make or mar the unfolding of the spiritual life. Spirituality does not depend upon the environment; it depends upon one’s attitude towards life.