Spiritual Quotes to Feed Your Soul

50 quotes to nourish your soul when you need a spiritual pick me up.

Spirituality is a guiding light that can ground us and inspire us on the hardest of days. However, staying committed to a spiritual practice can be challenging when you live in a fast-paced city. The chaos and distractions of your surroundings may overwhelm you and disrupt your inner peace, making it hard to maintain a balance between your spiritual life and everyday life. This is when we need spirituality the most. When we’re feeling burned out, lost, disconnected, and without a purpose, spirituality brings meaning back into our lives, offering us slivers of wholeness, tranquility, and harmony. 

Sometimes we need a reminder of what really matters when we’ve been swept up in the stresses of everyday life – some nourishing words to bring us back to the true nature of things. Here are 50 spiritual quotes to feed your soul on those days when you need a spiritual pick me up!

1. “Quiet the mind and the soul will speak.”

- Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati

2. “We don’t see the world as it is, we see it as we are.”

- Anaïs Nin

3. “In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you.” 

- Deepak Chopra

4. “To speak gratitude is courteous and pleasant, but to live gratitude is to touch heaven." 

- Johannes A. Gaertner

5. “The greatest religion is to be true to your own nature. Have faith in yourselves.”

- Swami Vivekananda

6. “We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.”

- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

7. “The unexamined life is not worth living.”

- Socrates

8. “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

9. “Do not feel lonely, the entire universe is inside you.”

- Rumi

10. “I don’t have to chase extraordinary moments to find happiness—it’s right in front of me if I’m paying attention and practicing gratitude.”

- Brené Brown

11. “Breathing in, I calm body and mind. Breathing out, I smile. Dwelling in the present moment I know this is the only moment.” 

- Thich Nhat Hanh

12. “Re-examine all you have been told. Dismiss what insults your soul.”

- Walt Whitman

13. “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

14. “Let what comes come. Let what goes go. Find out what remains.” 

- Ramana Maharshi

15. “Basically, there is simply nothing to worry about, because you yourself are the eternal energy of the universe.”

- Alan Watts

16. “Believe in your infinite potential. Your only limitations are those you set upon yourself.”

- Roy T. Bennet

17. “It does not matter how long you are spending on the earth, how much money you have gathered or how much attention you have received. It is the amount of positive vibration you have radiated in life that matters.”

- Amit Ray

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

- Henri J.M. Nouwen

19. “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 Kübler-Ross

20. “The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.”

- Michel de Montaigne

21. “To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.”

- Lao Tzu

22. “The thinking mind is what is busy. You have to stay in your heart. You have to be in your heart. Be in your heart. The rest is up here in your head where you are doing, doing, doing.”

- Ram Dass

23. “Let the breath lead the way.”

- Sharon Salzberg

24. “It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.” 

- William Shakespeare

25. “Being spiritual has nothing to do with what you believe and everything to do with your state of consciousness.”

- Eckhart Tolle

26. “Your sacred space is where you can find yourself over and over again.”

- Joseph Campbell

27. "Nothing binds you except your thoughts; nothing limits you except your fear; and nothing controls you except your beliefs."

- Marianne Williamson

28. “You do not need to work to become spiritual. You are spiritual; you need only to remember that fact. Spirit is within you. God is within you.” 

- Julia Cameron

29. "Anything that makes you weak–physically, intellectually and spiritually – reject it as poison."

- Swami Vivekananda

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

- Thich Nhat Hanh

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

- Hermann Hesse

32. “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

33. As you breathe in, cherish yourself. As you breathe out, cherish all things.”

- Dalai Lama

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

- Henri J.M. Nouwen

35. “The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life.”

- Marianne Williamson

36. “You and your purpose in life are the same thing. Your purpose is to be you.”

- George Alexiou

37. “The universe is but a partial manifestation of your limitless capacity to become.”

- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

38. “Realize deeply that the present moment is all you have. Make the NOW the primary focus of your life.”

- Eckhart Tolle

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

- Swami Vivekananda

40. “The spiritual life is not a life before, after, or beyond our everyday existence. No, the spiritual life can only be real when it is lived in the midst of the pains and joys of the here and now.”

- Henri Nouwen

41. “The simple intention to surrender control is all you need to experience miracles.”

- Gabby Bernstein

42. “This fire that we call Loving is too strong for human minds. But just right for human souls.”

- Aberjhani

43. “The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning.”

- M. Scott Peck

44. “What drains your spirit drains your body. What fuels your spirit fuels your body.”

- Carolyn Myss

45.  “The main requirement for spiritual growth: A yearning to know who you really are.”

- Adyashanti

46. “If peace is our single aim in all we do, we will always know what to do because we will do whatever will protect and deepen our peace.”

- Gerald Jampolsky

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

- Paulo Coelho

48. “Looking deeply at life as it is in this very moment, the meditator dwells in stability and freedom.” 

- Buddha

49. “It is in our wild nature that we best recover from our un-nature, our spirituality.”

- Friedrich Nietzsche

50. “To realize that you are not your thoughts is when you begin to awaken spiritually.”

- Eckhart Tolle