Karma means action, work, or deed. It also refers to the spiritual principle of cause and effect where intent and actions of an individual influence his/her future. In other words, we always get back what we give to the world. Whether you are a believer in karmic law or not, these thought-provoking karma quotes will inspire deep thoughts about the truth behind karma.
At SOLANCHA Magazine, we firmly believe that love, compassion, and kindness are something that more people should take seriously. These karma quotes will make you think about how what goes around will come around.
We hope that after reading the 50 karma quotes below you will let the idea of karma guide your actions. Try to look at karma as a powerful and important concept to live by that keeps you on the right path!
Here they are 50 thought-provoking karma quotes that will give you the motivation to stay on the right path.
#1
“How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.”
#2
“If you send out goodness from yourself, or if you share that which is happy or good within you, it will all come back to you multiplied ten thousand times. In the kingdom of love, there is no competition; there is no possessiveness or control. The more love you give away, the more love you will have.” – John O’Donohue
#3
“When you see a good person, think of becoming like her/him. When you see someone not so good, reflect on your own weak points.” – Confucius
#4
“As she has planted, so does she harvest; such is the field of karma.”- Sri Guru Granth Sahib
#5
“Karma moves in two directions. If we act virtuously, the seed we plant will result in happiness. If we act non-virtuously, suffering results.” – Saying Lipham
#6
“As long as karma exists, the world changes. There will always be karma to be taken care of.”- Nina Hagen
#7
“Contrary to popular misconception, karma has nothing to do with punishment and reward. It exists as part of our holographic universe’s binary or dualistic operating system only to teach us responsibility for our creations – and all things we experience are our creations.”- Sol Luckman
#8
“You are free to choose, but you are not free from the consequence of your choice.”
#9
“Every action has equal and opposite reaction. This is law of the universe and spares none. Wrong done and injustice inflicted is paid back in the same coin. No one has escaped justice of the universe. It is only a matter of time.”- Anil Sinha
#10
“Men are not punished for their sins, but by them.”- Elbert Hubbard
#11
“Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness. How do you know this is the experience you need? Because this is the experience you are having at the moment.”
#12
“Whatever you give to life, it gives you back. Do not hate anybody. The hatred which comes out from you will someday come back to you. Love others. And love will come back to you.”
#13
“People pay for what they do, and still more, for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it simply: by the lives they lead.”- Edith Wharton
#14
“Karma has a surprising way of taking care of situations. All you have to do is to sit back and watch.”
#15
“My actions are my only true belongings. I cannot escape the consequences of my actions. My actions are the ground upon which I stand.”- Thich Nhat Hanh
#16
“If you send out goodness from yourself, or if you share that which is happy or good within you, it will all come back to you multiplied ten thousand times. In the kingdom of love there is no competition; there is no possessiveness or control. The more love you give away, the more love you will have.”
#17
“For the keynote of the law of Karma is equilibrium, and nature is always working to restore that equilibrium whenever through man’s acts it is disturbed.”
#18
“Nothing happens by chance, by fate. You create your own fate by your actions. That’s Karma.”
#19
“Leave behind the passive dreaming of a rose-tinted future. The energy of happiness exists in living today with roots sunk firmly in reality’s soil.”
#20
“Whatever we do lays a seed in our deepest consciousness, and one day that seed will grow.”- Sakyong Mipham
#21
“Thoughts lead on to purposes; purposes go forth in action; actions form habits; habits decide character; and character fixes our destiny.”- Tryon Edwards
#22
“There are the waves and there is the wind, seen and unseen forces. Everyone has these same elements in their lives, the seen and unseen, karma and free will.”
#23
“Sooner or later in life, we will all take our own turn being in the position we once had someone else in.”
#24
“You must acknowledge and experience this part of the universe. Karma is intricate, too vast. You would, with your limited human senses, consider it too unfair. But you have tools to really, truly love. Loving the children is very important. But love everyone as you would love your children.” – Kuan Yin
#25
“Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.”- Edwin Hubbel Chapin
#26
“The life I touch for good or ill will touch another life, and that in turn another, until who knows where the trembling stops or in what far place my touch will be felt.”- Frederick Buechner
#27
“Like gravity, karma is so basic we often don’t even notice it.”- Sakyong Mipham
#28
“There is a wonderful mythical law of nature that the three things we crave most in life — happiness, freedom, and peace of mind — are always attained by giving them to someone else.”- Peyton Conway March
#29
“Your believing or not believing in karma has no effect on its existence, nor on its consequences to you. Just as a refusal to believe in the ocean would not prevent you from drowning.”
#30
“Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.” – Robert Louis Stevenson
#31
“If you give the slightest pain to any living being, then in the form of pain, the pain-giving-karma will give you its ‘fruit’. So think before you hurt any living being.”― Dada Bhagwan
#32
“You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.”- Ralph Waldo Emerson
#33
“No one can escape karma. Two events which may, at first, seem disconnected can be karmically connected. After all, karma works on a spiritual level which may manifest itself physically in a myriad of seemingly unrelated ways.”― Charbel Tadros
#34
“Sooner or later, everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.” — Robert Louis Stevenson
#35
“Karma is a balance sheet of life which debits and credit all your deeds. Which is audited by our creator and actions are based on what we accumulated in it.” ― Abhysheq Shukla
#36
“The universe does not carry debts, it always returns back to you what you gave it.”― Drishti Bablani
#37
“Universe first gives you; what you wished for others.”― Aditya Ajmera
#38
“Remember to honor the hand which reached out for you when you needed it, by being that hand to someone else who is struggling.”― Greg Dutilly
#39
“It is a rule of life that we eventually become victims of the evil we do to others.”― Wayne Gerard Trotman
#40
“Do not attempt to help those who have not asked for your help. Interfering with their own karma will result in a never-ending spiritual war from which you can only lose.”― Robin Sacredfire
#41
“The thing you know as Karma, does not really exist the way you think. It can only exist through the law of causality, which means, when you make efforts to achieve something, the results do indeed occur, given enough time, resources and above all, perseverance.”― Abhijit Naskar
#42
“Eventually you are answerable to yourself for your deeds. Be good and do good!”― Harsh Agrawal
#43
“Everybody comes from the same source. If you hate another human being, you’re hating part of yourself.”
#44
“Things don’t just happen in this world of arising and passing away. We don’t live in some kind of crazy, accidental universe. Things happen according to certain laws, laws of nature. Laws such as the law of karma, which teaches us that as a certain seed gets planted, so will that fruit be.” – Sharon Salzberg
#45
“If you give your best to someone it will most definitely come back to you, often from a different person altogether.”― Hrishikesh Agnihotri
#46
“This is your karma. You do not understand now, but you will understand later.” – H. Raven Rose
#47
“Stop blaming others for the pains and sufferings you have. They are because of you, your karma, and your own disposition.”― Girdhar Joshi
#48
“In the long run, every man will pay the penalty for his own misdeeds. The man who remembers this will be angry with no one, indignant with no one, revile no one, blame no one, offend no one, hate no one.”― Epictetus
#49
“When you plant a seed of love, it is you that blossoms.” – Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati
#50
We are always producing it through our speech, thought, and deeds. In the present moment we can always transform the karma that comes to us. – Thich Nhat Hanh
We hope you are inspired by these karma quotes as much as we are!