Bhagavad Gita Quotes: Find Hope

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Quotes drawn from the Bhagavad Gita 695 quotes, each linked to the shloka behind it.

Searching for hope? Read Bhagavad Gita quotes of reassurance, where Krishna reminds us that sincere effort counts and that renewal is always possible.

All 695 quotes

A sincere turn toward the good outweighs a long past of wandering.
Bhagavad Gita 9.30
Forgive yourself: the deepest part of you has not been harmed.
Bhagavad Gita 13.32
You are never abandoned when you see the divine around you.
Bhagavad Gita 6.30
Whatever your life looks like, you can live in the divine.
Bhagavad Gita 6.31
Beyond the cycles of change is something that does not change.
Bhagavad Gita 8.20
Give your whole heart, and what you lack will be provided.
Bhagavad Gita 9.22
The moment you resolve to do right, you are already walking right.
Bhagavad Gita 9.30
One fraction of the infinite holds the whole universe; trust it.
Bhagavad Gita 10.42
There is something imperishable to be known, and it is your refuge.
Bhagavad Gita 11.18
There are moments when courage and peace both seem to vanish; they return.
Bhagavad Gita 11.24
The state you are in now is not the state you will always be in.
Bhagavad Gita 14.10
The Divine sits quietly in every heart, waiting to be noticed.
Bhagavad Gita 15.15
Everything that changes is perishable; something in you does not.
Bhagavad Gita 15.16
Like worn clothes, bodies are set aside; the wearer goes on.
Bhagavad Gita 2.22
You are not a cloud torn apart; you are a cloud still forming.
Bhagavad Gita 6.38
Beyond calm, restless and dull, there is something steady.
Bhagavad Gita 7.13
Seekers who keep seeking eventually find that they were already held.
Bhagavad Gita 7.19
Beyond every appearance is something that does not change.
Bhagavad Gita 7.24
Take refuge in what does not age, and the fear of ageing softens.
Bhagavad Gita 7.29
Behind all change stands something that does not change.
Bhagavad Gita 8.3
Beyond the darkness of confusion is a light like the sun.
Bhagavad Gita 8.9
Devotion keeps you company when everything else falls away.
Bhagavad Gita 8.10
All beings are held within something vaster than them.
Bhagavad Gita 9.4
Everything returns to rest, and everything rises again.
Bhagavad Gita 9.7
What fades is folded into something that will bloom again.
Bhagavad Gita 9.7
Knowing the unborn frees you from fear of beginnings and endings.
Bhagavad Gita 10.3
A pure heart can grow in difficult families and difficult times.
Bhagavad Gita 10.30
Where you come from does not decide what you can devote yourself to.
Bhagavad Gita 10.30
The supreme refuge is available to everyone who turns toward it.
Bhagavad Gita 11.18
Feeling lost and shaken is a human moment, not a permanent state.
Bhagavad Gita 11.24
Anchored in the Divine, a mind is not swept away by the flood.
Bhagavad Gita 12.7
Refuge is not retreat; it is strength borrowed from something steadier.
Bhagavad Gita 12.11
Within you sits a witness who permits and supports all you do.
Bhagavad Gita 13.23
If you feel you are sinking, reach for something that lifts and for someone who can help.
Bhagavad Gita 16.20
If nothing feels meaningful, begin again with one sincere act.
Bhagavad Gita 17.28
Turn toward the light of knowing; shadows fall behind you.
Bhagavad Gita 5.16
Know yourself, quiet your wanting, and you are almost home.
Bhagavad Gita 5.26
Practise steadily, and peace arrives like a guest who stays.
Bhagavad Gita 6.15
There is a higher nature in you that no loss can touch.
Bhagavad Gita 7.5
Take refuge in what is steady, and the storm of maya can be crossed.
Bhagavad Gita 7.14
Distress, curiosity, need and wisdom all lead to the same door.
Bhagavad Gita 7.16
The divine is not far; it is lodged in this very body.
Bhagavad Gita 8.4
May your devotion be strong enough to hold you when you tremble.
Bhagavad Gita 8.10
Nothing is lost; it is only gathered and sent out again.
Bhagavad Gita 9.7
Whatever you seek in a parent, you can find in the sacred.
Bhagavad Gita 9.17
Start today; transformation often arrives sooner than we dare hope.
Bhagavad Gita 9.31
Let go of the idea that you must deserve what is freely given.
Bhagavad Gita 11.53
You do not cross the ocean by swimming harder, but by finding a boat.
Bhagavad Gita 12.7
Everywhere you go, you are inside something that surrounds you.
Bhagavad Gita 13.14
Beyond all that comes and goes, there is one who holds it all.
Bhagavad Gita 15.17
Believing that nothing matters can quietly harm everything.
Bhagavad Gita 16.8
If everything feels empty, reach out; emptiness can be eased.
Bhagavad Gita 16.8
Sometimes the breakdown is the beginning of the real question.
Bhagavad Gita 1.47
Your past effort prepares a good beginning for what comes next.
Bhagavad Gita 6.41
Hold the thought of a presence that supports every living thing.
Bhagavad Gita 8.9
Rest in the thought that what ends only returns to its source.
Bhagavad Gita 8.18
A teacher's compassion can dissolve what years of effort could not.
Bhagavad Gita 11.1
Imperishable greatness is not far; it is the ground you stand on.
Bhagavad Gita 11.2
What is right is guarded by something larger than any one of us.
Bhagavad Gita 11.18
When all your maps fail, turn toward the one who made the map.
Bhagavad Gita 11.25
Subtle things cannot be soiled; neither can your deepest self.
Bhagavad Gita 13.33
Arrive at your true home, and the journey stops repeating.
Bhagavad Gita 15.6
You belong to something that was never absent and will not vanish.
Bhagavad Gita 2.12
An ending can be a change of garments, not a loss of the wearer.
Bhagavad Gita 2.22
A steady remembrance carries you through the final door.
Bhagavad Gita 8.5
Be cared for by something that has cared for all before you.
Bhagavad Gita 9.17
Light beyond light is possible, and it is gentle to those who are ready.
Bhagavad Gita 11.12
A person without conscience is lost, but conscience can be rebuilt.
Bhagavad Gita 16.7
Life can feel like a wheel; remember the one standing at its centre.
Bhagavad Gita 18.61
Dawn comes differently to those who live by an inner light.
Bhagavad Gita 2.69
Seek the place that does not send you back to the same struggle.
Bhagavad Gita 15.4
Come to the Divine with the whole heart, and doubt grows quiet.
Bhagavad Gita 18.55
Give your own stalemate a pause, and a teacher may appear.
Bhagavad Gita 2.9
Faith without full effort still asks a fair question: is it wasted?
Bhagavad Gita 6.37
An eternal home is reached not by quitting but by trusting while doing.
Bhagavad Gita 18.56
Fear of loss and death softens when the mind rests in the eternal.
Bhagavad Gita 12.7
Suffering ends not by avoiding effort but by finding the right effort.
Bhagavad Gita 18.36
When balance breaks, correction is already on its way.
Bhagavad Gita 4.7
Like dawn, understanding arrives without effort once the night is done.
Bhagavad Gita 5.16
Not knowing your past is no reason to fear your future.
Bhagavad Gita 4.5
As wind rests in the sky, all life rests in the sacred.
Bhagavad Gita 9.6
No one is excluded from the highest by birth, status or background.
Bhagavad Gita 9.32
Free of desire, fear and anger, you are liberated already.
Bhagavad Gita 5.28
Let sorrow pass through like weather, not move in like a tenant.
Bhagavad Gita 2.56
Peace at the end begins with peace in the ordinary hour.
Bhagavad Gita 8.5
A steady mind at the final hour is the reward of a steady life.
Bhagavad Gita 8.10
There is a deeper stillness beneath all rising and falling.
Bhagavad Gita 8.20
One who stays steady in pleasure and pain is ready for freedom.
Bhagavad Gita 2.15
Devotion is a kind of trust that you will be looked after.
Bhagavad Gita 9.22
Know where everything comes from and where it goes; fear loosens.
Bhagavad Gita 11.2
Know the divine truly, and the journey turns homeward.
Bhagavad Gita 4.9
What you seek is closer than you think; it matures within.
Bhagavad Gita 4.38
The divine is never lost to the one who sees it everywhere.
Bhagavad Gita 6.30
Remember the highest while you live, and it will remember you.
Bhagavad Gita 7.30
Return to simple faith whenever the world feels circular.
Bhagavad Gita 9.3
Seeing the eternal Lord of all makes small fears seem small.
Bhagavad Gita 10.3
Birth and death, fear and courage: all within the great design.
Bhagavad Gita 10.4
In every field there is one that shines brightest; let it remind you of the light.
Bhagavad Gita 10.21
Accept the cycle of birth, ageing and loss, and you suffer less.
Bhagavad Gita 13.9
Refuge is the right answer when you have outgrown your own maps.
Bhagavad Gita 15.4
Those we love are not erased by time; they belong to a continuing whole.
Bhagavad Gita 2.12
What is born will pass, and what has passed returns in some form.
Bhagavad Gita 2.27
Unseen before, visible for a while, unseen again: why grieve only the interval?
Bhagavad Gita 2.28
Knowledge that is realised frees you from what harms you.
Bhagavad Gita 9.1
Know that you are known by the same awareness as everyone else.
Bhagavad Gita 13.3
However you understand life, there is a way to meet it with calm.
Bhagavad Gita 2.26
A wave appears, rises, and returns to the sea; none of that is a mistake.
Bhagavad Gita 2.28
Discipline and understanding together bring peace within reach.
Bhagavad Gita 5.26
There is power in the vision that is meant to protect, not to frighten.
Bhagavad Gita 11.10
Your core is beyond the reach of every weapon the world owns.
Bhagavad Gita 2.23
Trust the part of you that stays when everything else moves.
Bhagavad Gita 2.25
Every beginning carries an ending; every ending carries a beginning.
Bhagavad Gita 2.27
The unchanging core is the quiet centre of every changing life.
Bhagavad Gita 15.16
Grief drains the senses; rest and guidance restore them.
Bhagavad Gita 2.8
How would you live if you saw the universe as a loving parent?
Bhagavad Gita 9.17
What would you hold on to if you knew something in you never ends?
Bhagavad Gita 13.13
Which hard season of yours might be quietly feeding something?
Bhagavad Gita 9.19
Where could you turn your face toward a love that is already shining?
Bhagavad Gita 9.29
What would change if you trusted that your source has no beginning?
Bhagavad Gita 10.3
Where do you most clearly feel surrounded by something larger?
Bhagavad Gita 13.14

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