Spiritual Quotes

We live in a culture with advanced technology and external pleasures that are supposed to make our lives easier than ever. However, research is pointing to the fact that it may not be making us happier at all. True happiness is found in places other than Instagram likes or the latest pair of rare Nikes. True fulfillment lies not in how much you have in your wallet, but how much you have in your heart. 

Material wealth may feel like it’s bringing you happiness in the moment. However, the satisfaction material wealth brings is often fleeting. It disappears just as fast as it appeared. Before you know it, you’re constantly chasing happiness that won’t seem to stay put, like sand through your fingers.

If you’re ready to experience true fulfillment, then take a look at some of the best ways to find it. 

Serve Others

Real fulfillment and life meaning doesn’t stem from how much others do for you, but rather how you contribute to others. Taking care of others is something that will make you feel good in ways that no material item could even come close to.

Serving your community opens your heart and creates connections that bring incredible meaning to your life” says Jean founder of AlignMat 

Be Grateful

Most of us are much more entitled than we might like to think. When things go wrong, it’s easy to find ourselves dwelling on everything that we don’t have rather than what we do have. The result is feeling frustrated, depressed, and hopeless.

However, studies show that the most resilient people are the ones that shift their focus on what’s going right in their lives when everything seems to be going wrong. The truth is, there is always something to be grateful for if you look in the right places.

Tap Into a Higher Consciousness

Sometimes our problems seem immense, making us feel smaller than the world around us. The result is feeling insignificant and disconnected from the world around us. 

Connecting to a source that’s greater than ourselves can put your problems in perspective. The way people do this can vary.  For some people, tapping into a higher consciousness means joining a religion, while for others, it’s painting, or connecting with nature.

The more that you connect with the world around you and appreciate the wonder and beauty that it has to offer, the more fulfillment you’ll experience.

Don’t Sweat The Small Stuff

When we allow ourselves to get flustered over trivial day to day problems like someone not letting us pass in their lane, or the store being out of our favorite coffee, we’re reinforcing our dissatisfaction. Catch yourself getting upset about things that don’t matter in the bigger picture. 

Think of it like training a muscle. The more that you work at it, the stronger you’ll get!

Sometimes we are faced with difficult times and challenges. When this happens sometimes it can help to read motivational quotes. While no quote will do the work for you, it can give you the confidence and motivation needed to attack the challenges you are faced with head on.

Here are ten motivational quotes to help inspire you.

1. “Give yourself an even greater challenge than the one you are trying to master and you will develop the powers necessary to overcome the original difficulty.”

— William J. Bennett – The Book of Virtues

2. “Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.”

— Aristotle

3. “Sometimes when the obstacle in front of you seems so big to conquer, it will cause you to dig deep and work harder. This will help you eventually reach all of your dreams.”

— Craig Clemens, a plumbing services contractor.

4. “Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan ‘Press On’ has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.”

— Calvin Coolidge

5. “The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born — that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That’s nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.”

— Warren G. Bennis

6. “Whenever you feel like life cannot get any more difficult, take a break and press pause. If you continue to stress over it, that will not solve the problem. Learn to talk to friends and family also, as their influencer can help you clear your mind.”

— Joe Langlois, a PlayUp review blogger.

7. “Leadership is not magnetic personality — that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not ‘making friends and influencing people’ — that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person’s vision to high sights, the raising of a person’s performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.”

— Peter F. Drucker

8. “Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, ‘Make me feel important.’ Not only will you succeed in sales, you will succeed in life.”

— Mary Kay Ash

9. “Whatever you are faced with, just remember that you have loved ones that care very deeply about you.”

— Chris Tomlin, an entrepreneur focused on these products.

10. “Your time is limited, don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma, which is living the result of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinion drowned your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition, they somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”

— Steve Jobs