100 Spiritual Quotes To Nourish Your Soul

By Maxime Lagacé

Maxime is the founder of WisdomQuotes. He has been collecting quotes since 2004. His goal? To help you develop a calm and peaceful mind. Learn more about him on his about page.

Here are 100 of the best spiritual quotes I could find.

I hope you’ll find the wisdom and inspiration you need to enrich your life and feel more connected to your soul.

You’ll discover quotes by Einstein, Dalai Lama, Lao Tzu, and more.

Enjoy!

I have so much to do that I shall spend the first three hours in prayer. Martin Luther

You’ll be calm the day you learn to sit alone and do nothing. Maxime Lagacé

The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious – the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science. Albert Einstein

The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself. Anais Nin

When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love. Marcus Aurelius

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

Awakening is not changing who you are, but discarding who you are not. Deepak Chopra

Only if we understand, will we care. Only if we care, will we help. Only if we help shall all be saved. Jane Goodall

I close my eyes in order to see. Paul Gauguin

Don’t try to steer the river. Deepak Chopra

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

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

The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it. Carl Jung

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

Let the breath lead the way. Sharon Salzberg

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

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

The spiritual life does not remove us from the world but leads us deeper into it. Henri J.M. Nouwen

Religion, science, and spirituality help us make sense of the world. Life without at least one of them is a lonely and confusing place. Naval Ravikant

Realize deeply that the present moment is all you have. Make the now the primary focus of your life. Eckhart Tolle

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

Enlightenment means taking full responsibility for your life. William Blake

He who is filled with love is filled with God himself. Augustine of Hippo

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

Fools laugh at others. Wisdom laughs at itself. Osho

It is in our wild nature that we best recover from our un-nature, our spirituality. Friedrich Nietzsche

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

This moment is all there is. Rumi

If you think you’re enlightened go spend a week with your family. Ram Dass

The moment one gives close attention to anything, even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself. Henry Miller

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

I choose gentleness… Nothing is won by force. I choose to be gentle. If I raise my voice may it be only in praise. If I clench my fist, may it be only in prayer. If I make a demand, may it be only of myself. Max Lucado

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

When you realize there is no lacking, the whole world belongs to you. Lao Tzu

The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear. Daniel Defoe

Realisation is not acquisition of anything new nor is it a new faculty. It is only removal of all camouflage. Ramana Maharshi

If a man is to live, he must be all alive, body, soul, mind, heart, spirit. Thomas Merton

Relax into the moment and let the universe do the driving. If there was a secret to happiness in life, I’d say that was it. Jed McKenna

Nurture great thoughts, for you will never go higher than your thoughts. Benjamin Disraeli

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Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens. Carl Jung

The unexamined life is not worth living. Socrates

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

We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves. 14th Dalai Lama

It isn’t until you come to a spiritual understanding of who you are – not necessarily a religious feeling, but deep down, the spirit within – that you can begin to take control. Oprah Winfrey

You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this. Henry David Thoreau

Nothing is, unless our thinking makes it so. William Shakespeare

The Way is not in the sky; the Way is in the heart. Buddha

It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart. Mahatma Gandhi

Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force. Franklin D. Roosevelt

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves. William Shakespeare

This country cannot affort to be materially rich and spiritually poor. John F. Kennedy

This new day is too dear, with its hopes and invitations, to waste a moment on the yesterdays. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in eternal awareness or pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity. Voltaire

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind. Albert Einstein

The greater the doubt, the greater the awakening. Albert Einstein

Short Spiritual Quotes

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One-liners, short spiritual quotes, thoughts, and captions for your bio, social status, self-talk, motto, mantra, signs, posters, wallpapers, and backgrounds.

Let the measure of time be spiritual, not mechanical. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Wake up and live. Bob Marley

I am realistic – I expect miracles. Wayne Dyer

Do anything, but let it produce joy. Walt Whitman

Much of spiritual life is self-acceptance, maybe all of it. Jack Kornfield

Spiritual progress is like a detoxification. Marianne Williamson

To be in time is to be asleep: to be awake is to be in eternity. Osho

Be guided by spirit and not driven by ego. Unknown

Forever is composed of nows. Emily Dickinson

It is in pardoning that we are pardoned. Francis of Assisi

Grow spiritually and help others to do so; it is the meaning of life. Leo Tolstoy

Everything in the world was my Guru. Ramana Maharshi

Quiet the mind and the soul will speak. Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati

Reach for a thought that feels better. Abraham Hicks

Your thoughts are the primary cause of everything. Rhonda Byrne

Your thoughts become things. Rhonda Byrne

When you make a choice, you change the future. Deepak Chopra

God finds himself by creating. Rabindranath Tagore

Inspirational Spiritual Quotes

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

When a man is willing and eager, the Gods join in. Aeschylus

Arise, awake, stop not till the goal is reached. Swami Vivekananda

The best and the most important object for every person is his inner self, his spiritual being. Leo Tolstoy

The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper. W.B. Yeats

You’re allowed to rest: physically, mentally, spiritually, emotionally, socially. Maxime Lagacé

Equanimity arises when we accept the way things are. Jack Kornfield

I have seen that in any great undertaking it is not enough for a man to depend simply upon himself. Shooter Teton Sioux (Native American)

Fire purifies everything in the material world; love purifies everything in the spiritual world. Henri Amiel

Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force, that thoughts rule the world. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Study yourself sincerely, it’s a spiritual exploration. Yogi Ramdas (Source)

Without suffering, spiritual growth cannot happen. Leo Tolstoy

Let what comes come. Let what goes go. Find out what remains. Ramana Maharshi

The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you really are. Carl Jung

Only he who accepts that the essence or meaning of his life is not material but spiritual can be free. Leo Tolstoy

Walk with the dreamers, the believers, the courageous, the cheerful, the planners, the doers, the successful people with their heads in the clouds and their feet on the ground. Let their spirit ignite a fire within you to leave this world better than when you found it. Wilferd Peterson

Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are. José Saramago

The resting place of the mind is the heart. The only thing the mind hears all day is clanging bells and noise and argument, and all it wants is quietude. The only place the mind will ever find peace is inside the silence of the heart. That’s where you need to go. Elizabeth Gilbert

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

You will have to create the path by walking yourself; the path is not ready-made, lying there and waiting for you. Osho

With God, a day is like a thousand years so as we pray about our fears. Trust in Him and His timing too, He knows better than we do. Catherine Pulsifer (Related: Christian Poems)