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100 Quotes to Change Your Life

Updated: Jan 29

Here are my favourite quotes for the transformation of your life...



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  1. “The way is not in the sky; the way is in the heart.” – Buddha

  2. “It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.” – William Shakespeare

  3. “Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.” Dalai Lama

  4. “Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.” – Carl Jung

  5. “If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.” – Jack Kornfield

  6. “Ego says, “Once everything falls into place, I’ll feel peace”. Spirit says, “Find your peace, and then everything will fall into place”.” Marianne Williamson

  7. “We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.” Joseph Campbell

  8. “The wound is the place where the Light enters you.” – Jalal Ad-Din Rumi 

  9. “Out of difficulties grow miracles.” – Jean de la Bruyère

  10. “Let your Faith be bigger than your fears.” – Hebrews 13:6

  11. “You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual.  There is no other spiritual teacher than you own soul.” – Swami Vivekananda

  12. “God will not look you over for medals, degrees or diplomas but for scars.” – Elbert Hubbard

  13. “Life with God is not immunity from difficulties, but peace in difficulties.” – C.S. Lewis

  14. “I know of only one duty, and that is to love.” Albert Camus

  15. “And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.” Anaïs Nin

  16. “Nothing binds you except your thoughts; nothing limits you except your fear; and nothing controls you except your beliefs.” – Marianne Williamson

  17. “The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.” Joseph Campbell

  18. “We are not human beings having a spiritual experience; we are spiritual beings having a human experience.” – Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  19. "Ask yourself what makes you come alive and then go and do that."- Howard Thurman

  20. "If you look carefully you will see that there is one thing and only one thing that causes unhappiness. The name of that thing is attachment. What is an attachment? An emotional state of clinging caused by the belief that without some particular thing or some person you cannot be happy." Anthony de Mello

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

  22. “Follow your bliss and the Universe will open doors where there were only walls.” Joseph Campbell

  23. "The solution for mankind is of a spiritual nature. It is not a political or religious solution. It's the ability to love each other."- Ziggy Marley

  24. “When you connect to the silence within you, that is when you can make sense of the disturbance going on around you.” – Stephen Richards

  25. “Do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Let the day's own trouble be sufficient for the day.” Jesus Christ

  26. “Quiet the mind and the soul will speak.” – Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati

  27. “You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realise this, and you will find strength.” – Marcus Aurelius

  28. “Forgive the past. It is over. Learn from it and let go. People are constantly changing and growing. Do not cling to a limited, disconnected, negative image of a person in the past. See that person now. Your relationship is always alive and changing.” – Brian Weiss

  29. “The unexamined life is not worth living.” – Socrates

  30. “You will never be able to escape from your heart. So it is better to listen to what it has to say.” – Paulo Coelho

  31. “I am not my thoughts, emotions, sense perceptions, and experiences. I am not the content of my life. I am Life. I am the space in which all things happen. I am consciousness. I am the Now. I Am.” – Eckhart Tolle

  32. “Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.” Carl Sagan

  33. “All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.” Arthur Schopenhauer

  34. “God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that.” Joseph Campbell

  35. “Accept – then act. Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it. This will miraculously transform your whole life.” – Eckhart Tolle

  36. “Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, man cannot live without a spiritual life.” – Buddha

  37. “The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.” Anaïs Nin

  38. “One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.” – Friedrich Nietzsche

  39. “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

  40. “Spirituality: the art of keeping your internal fire alive.” – Maxime Lagacé

  41. “Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings.” Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

  42. “Peace is the result of retraining your mind to process life as it is, rather than as you think it should be.” – Wayne Dyer

  43. “Realise deeply that the present moment is all you have. Make the now the primary focus of your life.” – Eckhart Tolle

  44. “Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you.” – Princess Diana

  45. “There is no coming to consciousness without pain.” Carl Jung

  46. “If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.” Dalai Lama

  47.  “We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.” – Anaïs Nin

  48. “Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.” – Jalal Ad-Din Rumi

  49. “Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.” Martin Luther King, Jr.

  50. “In the midst of hate, I found there was, within me, an invincible love. In the midst of tears, I found there was, within me, an invincible smile. In the midst of chaos, I found there was, within me, an invincible calm. I realised, through it all, that… In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer. And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there’s something stronger – something better, pushing right back.” Albert Camus

  51. “Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?' Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing Enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.” Marianne Williamson

  52. “Knock, And He'll open the door. Vanish, And He'll make you shine like the sun. Fall, And He'll raise you to the heavens. Become nothing, And He'll turn you into everything.” Jalal Ad-Din Rumi

  53. “So I say to you, Ask and it will be given to you; search, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened for you.” Jesus Christ

  54. “Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.” Dalai Lama

  55. “What you seek is seeking you.” Jalal Ad-Din Rumi

  56. “Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.” Carl Jung

  57. “Give me a child until he is 7 and I will show you the man.” Aristotle

  58. “Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.” Arthur Schopenhauer

  59. “People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them.” Epictetus

  60. “Life's but a walking shadow; a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more: It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.” William Shakespeare

  61. "Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul." – St. Augustine

  62. "I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It's just that the translations have gone wrong." – John Lennon

  63. "Spirituality: the art of keeping your internal fire alive." – Maxime Lagacé

  64. “Religion is for people who're afraid of going to 'Hell'. Spirituality is for those who've already been there.” – Vine Deloria Jr.

  65. “Peaceful is the one who’s not concerned with having more or less. Unbound by name and fame, he is free from sorrow from the world and mostly from himself.” – Jalal Ad-Din Rumi

  66. “Spirituality is recognising and celebrating that we are all inextricably connected to each other by a power greater than all of us and that our connection to that power and to one another is grounded in love and compassion. Practicing spirituality brings a sense of perspective, meaning and purpose to our lives.” – Brené Brown

  67. “At any moment, you have a choice, that either leads you closer to your spirit or further away from it.” – Thich Nhat Hanh

  68. “Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences. All events are blessings given to us to learn from.” – Elizabeth Kübler-Ross

  69. “Sometimes religion gets in the way of God.” – Bono

  70. “Wake up and live.” – Bob Marley

  71. “Within you, there is a stillness and a sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself.” – Hermann Hesse

  72. “Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

  73. “When you realise there is no lacking, the whole world belongs to you.” – Lao Tzu

  74. “Realise deeply that the present moment is all you have. Make the now the primary focus of your life.” – Eckhart Tolle

  75. “Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.” – Kahlil Gibran

  76. “The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you really are.” – Carl Jung

  77. “Faith does not need to push the river because Faith is able to trust that there is a river. The river is flowing. We are in it.” – Richard Rohr

  78. “I know that I have still before me a difficult path to traverse. I must reduce myself to zero.” Mahatma Gandhi

  79. “The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.” – Alan Watts

  80. “The real spiritual progress of the aspirant is measured by the extent to which he achieves inner tranquility.” – Swami Sivananda

  81. “You will face many defeats in life, but never let yourself be defeated.” – Maya Angelou

  82. “Know what sparks the light in you so that you, in your own way, can illuminate the world.” – Oprah Winfrey

  83. “Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that.” – Martin Luther King Jr.

  84. "Each one of them is Jesus in disguise." Mother Teresa

  85. “Be not afraid of anything. You will do marvellous work. It is fearlessness that brings 'Heaven' even in a moment.” – Swami Vivekananda

  86. "God will not look you over for medals, degrees or diplomas but for scars." Elbert Hubbard

  87. "Everyone is on a spiritual path; most people just don't know it. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and the acceptance of love." Marianne Williamson

  88. "A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born." Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

  89. "Living in the present moment creates the experience of eternity." Deepak Chopra

  90.  "The next message you need is always right where you are." Ram Dass

  91. "I am not my thoughts, emotions, sense perceptions, and experiences. I am not the content of my life. I am Life. I am the space in which all things happen. I am consciousness. I am the Now. I AM." Eckhart Tolle

  92. "You must find the place inside yourself where nothing is impossible." Deepak Chopra

  93. “Love in its essence is spiritual fire.” Lucius Annaeus Seneca

  94. “Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement.” W. Clement Stone

  95. “We become what we think about.” Earl Nightingale

  96. “Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it.” Charles Swindoll

  97. “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.” Steve Jobs

  98. “You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.” Christopher Columbus

  99. “I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” Maya Angelou

  100. “Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right.” Henry Ford


Namaste.


Sending you love, light, and blessings brothers.


Olly



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