53 Karma Quotes For Inspiration

Karma, a concept deeply rooted in various philosophical and spiritual traditions, teaches us that our actions have consequences that shape our lives and our world. Whether you believe in the cosmic balance of deeds or simply appreciate the wisdom in these age-old principles, karma can offer profound insights and motivation. In this post, we've gathered a selection of the top 53 karma quotes to inspire you to lead a life filled with positive energy, mindful choices, and a deeper understanding of how our actions reverberate through the universe.

1. “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.” - Eckhart Tolle

2. “Dangerous consequences will follow when politicians and rulers forget moral principles. Whether we believe in God or karma, ethics is the foundation of every religion.” - Dalai Lama XIV

3. “How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.” - Wayne W. Dyer

4. “Like gravity, karma is so basic we often don't even notice it.” - Sakyong Mipham

5. “The sad thing is, I was discovering that you almost have to make a joke of being good to strangers. Up and down the country, these people doing their good deeds were doubtless being seen as slightly eccentric, when in reality and in an ideal world they should be deemed the most normal people of all.” - Danny Wallace

6. “many believe in karma but i take it to a whole different level.” - Alexandria Vincent R.

7. “The law is simple. Every experience is repeated or suffered till you experience it properly and fully the first time.” - Ben Okri

8. “Once you’ve lived a little you will find that whatever you send out into the world comes back to you in one way or another. It may be today, tomorrow, or years from now, but it happens; usually when you least expect it, usually in a form that’s pretty different from the original. Those coincidental moments that change your life seem random at the time but I don’t think they are. At least that’s how it’s worked out in my life. And I know I’m not the only one.” - Slash

9. “Life is painful. It has thorns, like the stem of a rose. Culture and art are the roses that bloom on the stem. The flower is yourself, your humanity. Art is the liberation of the humanity inside yourself.” - Daisaku Ikeda

10. “The institutions of human society treat us as parts of a machine. They assign us ranks and place considerable pressure upon us to fulfill defined roles. We need something to help us restore our lost and distorted humanity. Each of us has feelings that have been suppressed and have built up inside. There is a voiceless cry resting in the depths of our souls, waiting for expression. Art gives the soul's feelings voice and form.” - Daisaku Ikeda

11. “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.” - Daisaku Ikeda

12. “Can you play the piano like Beethoven? Or sing like Carly Simon? Can you take fie pages' worth of quotes and turn them into a usable story ten minutes before deadline? I don't think so, unless you have more hidden talents I don't know about. We all have our special sills. They don't make us better or worse than each other. Just different” - Jennifer Estep

13. “I was in the biggest breakdown of my life when I stopped crying long enough to let the words of my epiphany really sink in. That whore, karma, had finally made her way around, and had just bitch-slapped me right across the face. The realization only made me cry harder.” - Jennifer Salaiz

14. “I'm not a believer in predetermined fates, being rewarded for one's efforts. I'm not a believer in karma. The reason why I try to be a good person is because I think it's the right thing to do. If I commit fewer bad acts there will be fewer bad acts, maybe other people will join in committing fewer bad acts, and in time there will be fewer and fewer of them.” - Daniel Handler

15. “Dear Karma, I really hate you right now, you made your point.” - Ottilie Weber

16. “Not only is there often a right and wrong, but what goes around does come around, Karma exists, chickens do come home to roost, and as my mother, Phyllis, liked to say, “There is always a day of reckoning.” The good among the great understand that every choice we make adds to the strength or weakness of our spirits—ourselves, or to use an old fashioned word for the same idea, our souls. That is every human’s life work: to construct an identity bit by bit, to walk a path step by step, to live a life that is worthy of something higher, lighter, more fulfilling, and maybe even everlasting.” - Donald Van de Mark

17. “Karma is a cruel mistress.” - Kelley York

18. “When you plant a seed of love, it is you that blossoms.” - Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati

19. “Manipulation, fueled with good intent, can be a blessing. But when used wickedly, it is the beginning of a magician's karmic calamity.” - T.F. Hodge

20. “Now everything that you do is written in red or black in Angel Gabriel's book. Not for everyone is this record kept, but only for those who have taken a position of responsibility. There is a Law of Sins, and if you do not fulfil all your obligations, you will pay.” - G.I. Gurdjieff

21. “Life ends with a snap of small bones, a head cracked from its stem, and a spirit unmoored...” - Sarah Kernochan

22. “Karma is a bitch.” - V.K. Springs

23. “As long as karma exists, the world changes. There will always be karma to be taken care of” - Nina Hagen

24. “Without the existance of people to acknowledge or dispute your greatness, your greatness is irrelevant. You are because they are. Without them, no matter how they treat you, you would not exist. Treat all the world as if you owe it your gratitude, because even the cruel and heartless define who you are.” - Jayleigh Cape

25. “A boomerang returns back to the person who throws it.But first, while moving in a circle, it hits its target.So does gossip.” - Vera Nazarian

26. “Some day people will ask me what is the key to my success...and I will simply say, "good Karma.” - K. Crumley

27. “After Daskalos returned to his armchair and was getting ready to continue our discussion I asked him whether the affliction of that man was due to karmic debts.“ ‘All illnesses are due to Karma,’ Daskalos replied. ‘It is either the result of your own debts or the debts of others you love.’“ ‘I can understand paying for one’s own Karma but what does it mean paying the Karma of someone you love?’ I asked.“ ‘What do you think Christ meant,’ Daskalos said, ‘when he urged us to bear one another’s burdens?’“ ‘Karma,’ Daskalos explained, ‘has to be paid off in one way or another. This is the universal law of balance. So when we love someone, we may assist him in paying part of his debt. But this,’ he said, ‘is possible only after that person has received his ‘lesson’ and therefore it would not be necessary to pay his debt in full. When most of the Karma has been paid off someone else can assume the remaining burden and relieve the subject from the pain. When we are willing to do that,’ Daskalos continued, ‘the Logos will assume nine-tenths of the remaining debt and we would actually assume only one-tenth. Thus the final debt that will have to be paid would be much less and the necessary pain would be considerably reduced. These are not arbitrary percentages,’ Daskalos insisted, ‘but part of the nature of things.” - Kyriacos C. Markides

28. “Situations seem to happen to people, but in reality, they unfold from deeper karmic causes. The universe unfolds to itself, bringing to bear any cause that needs to be included. Don’t take this process personally. The working out of cause and effect is eternal. You are part of this rising and falling that never ends, and only by riding the wave can you ensure that the waves don’t drown you. The ego takes everything personally, leaving no room for higher guidance or purpose. If you can, realize that a cosmic plan is unfolding and appreciate the incredibly woven tapestry for what it is, a design of unparalleled marvel.” - Deepak Chopra

29. “Karma is simply the law of cause and effect. If you plant an apple seed, you don’t a get a mango tree. If we practice hatred or greed, it becomes our way and the world responds accordingly. If we practice awareness or loving-kindness, it becomes our way and the world responds accordingly.""We are heirs to the results of our actions, to the intentions we bring to every moment we initiate. We make ripples upon the ocean of the universe through our very presence.” - Christina Feldman

30. “Karma bides it's time. You will always have to watch out. Karma is unforgiving and always gets payback.” - Benjamin Bayani

31. “When we tell our stories, the gods hear our sorrows.” - Cathy Ostlere

32. “Dear Maya,Life is an illusion.And as it turns out, so is death.What is real?What remains when we all fade away?Two things: Love. Forgiveness.Don't forget” - Cathy Ostlere

33. “Strahov jeze in ljubosumnosti, ki izmaličijo osebnost, ne moremo razumevati ločeno od karmičnih okoliščin, zaradi katerih so. Ko razumete in resnično razumete, da so izkušnje vašega življenja potrebne za uravnoteženje energije vaše duše, imate vso svobodo, da se ne odzivate nanje osebno, da ne ustvarjate več negativne karme za svojo dušo.” - Gary Zukav

34. “This misfortune you find is of your own manufacture.Keep hold of what you have, it will harm no other,for hatred comes home to the hand that chose it.” - Simon Armitage

35. “We preach and practice brotherhood — not only of man but of all living beings — not on Sundays only but on all the days of the week. We believe in the law of universal justice — that our present condition is the result of our past actions and that we are not subjected to the freaks of an irresponsible governor, who is prosecutor and judge at the same time; we depend for our salvation on our own acts and deeds and not on the sacrificial death of an attorney.” - Virchand Raghavji Gandhi

36. “This is your karma. You do not understand now, but you will understand later. The source of pain is within your own larger expression of being.” - H Raven Rose

37. “Strange things conspire when one tries to cheat fate” - Rick Riordan

38. “If karma doesn't catch up, God will surely pick up the slack.” - Anthony Liccione

39. “Our actions are like ships which we may watch set out to sea, and not know when or with what cargo they will return to port.” - Iris Murdoch

40. “The only truth of life is that he will be dead one day and before that day come, he should make the maximum out of his life; no karma will postpone his death.” - RKSJ(Rohit Kumar Singh Jadon)

41. “En ocasiones, el fuego del odio alcanza a quienes lo encienden.” - Dulce María

42. “Every intentional thought, word, or deed-right now and in your past-it all makes you what you are today. Your choices, not your neighbor's or your wife's or you boyfriend's-your decisions determine your karma.” - Lucie Smoker

43. “If the crow has to be shoved down your throat; maybe you should just let it fly.” - Colette Ruland Parrino

44. “It is your karma to fight evil. It doesn't matter if the people that evil is being committed against don't fight back. It doesn't matter if the entire world chooses to look the other way. Always remember this. You don't live with the consequences of other people's karma. You live with the consequences of your own” - Amish Tripathi

45. “Sooner or later in life, we will all take our own turn being in the position we once had someone else in.” - Ashly Lorenzana

46. “I must have killed a lot of cows in a past life for Karma to hate me this much.” - Katie McGarry

47. “He was in hell. Worse than that, he was in hell, and someone had set it on repeat.” - Dennis Sharpe

48. “You made your own bed, and now curse others for putting you there.” - Wesley Chu

49. “Life works on strange laws of nature (Karma).One never knows when a friend turns enemy & vice-versa.Rely on your Self; self-reliance” - Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

50. “Hukum karma pasti berlaku, Boi," kata Paman dengan serius. "Maka jangan kau nakal dan jahat, ya. Nanti kau kena hukum karma." Aku mengangguk angguk dengan takzim. Kusimpan benar pelajaran itu.” - Andrea Hirata

51. “Never allow dogmatic interpretations of Karma to keep you from defending what is right or just. You must accept the reality that on occasion, you may very well be the proper instrument of this cosmic force.” - Gary Hopkins

52. “When we don’t put the brakes on our self-absorption, we have nothing stopping us from total self-destruction. We become the fruits of our actions.” - Zeena Schreck

53. “Love, endure, persist... Everything will return to you, innocent fool!” - Raheel Farooq