59 Quotes And Sayings About Karma Which Show What You Sow Is What You Reap

We have often heard the phrase ‘what goes around comes around’, but did we ever think about it seriously? When put these words to thought we realize the true depth of it and then we understand what Karma means. One meaning of Karma is the deeds we do, while another perspective to it is the effect which again occurs as a result of our deeds (the cause). It is said that Karma is ruthless and when it comes to balance the deed and reward thing, it does the work quite well. Therefore, if we want to reap good fruit we have to do good, there is no other option. Sometimes, Karma hits us instantaneously, while there are times when we forget about what we did and then we see the result in front of our eyes. Be it good or bad, Karma makes sure that justice is served and it does not make any distinction between the rich or the poor, powerful or powerless. Therefore, the quotes about Karma which have been compiled below will warn you to watch out your steps before you get into the bad books of this equalizer.

How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.

- Wayne W. Dyer

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

Even if things don't unfold the way you expected, don't be disheartened or give up. One who continues to advance will win in the end.

- Daisaku Ikeda

If you're really a mean person you're going to come back as a fly and eat poop.

- Kurt Cobain

Even chance meetings are the result of karma… Things in life are fated by our previous lives. That even in the smallest events there's no such thing as coincidence.

- Kafka on the Shore, Haruki Murakami

Is Fate getting what you deserve, or deserving what you get?

- Vanishing Acts, Jodi Picoult

It is impossible to build one's own happiness on the unhappiness of others. This perspective is at the heart of Buddhist teachings.

- Daisaku Ikeda

Like gravity, karma is so basic we often don't even notice it.

- Sakyong Mipham

The law is simple. Every experience is repeated or suffered till you experience it properly and fully the first time.

- Astonishing the Gods, Ben Okri

Quiet the mind, and the soul will speak.

- The 11 Karmic Spaces: Choosing Freedom from the Patterns That Bind You, Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati

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

I must have killed a lot of cows in a past life for Karma to hate me this much.

- Pushing the Limits, Katie McGarry

Oh Lestat, you deserved everything that's ever happened to you. You better not die. You might actually go to hell.

- The Vampire Lestat, Anne Rice

Dear Karma, I really hate you right now, you made your point.

- Family Ties, Ottilie Weber

Manipulation, fueled with good intent, can be a blessing. But when used wickedly, it is the beginning of a magician's karmic calamity.

- From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence", T.F. Hodge

Sooner or later in life, we will all take our own turn being in the position we once had someone else in.

- Ashly Lorenzana

A great human revolution in just a single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a nation and, further, can even enable a change in the destiny of all humankind.

- The Human Revolution, Daisaku Ikeda

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

Those who pray for your downfall are concentrating negative thoughts towards you, without taking cognisance of the slippery ground in which they are standing, which could lead to their downfall.

- Michael Bassey Johnson

Karma is a tricky thing. To serve Karma, one must repay good Karma to others. To serve Karma well, one must sometimes deliver bad Karma where it is due.

- M.R. Mathias

You cannot control the results, only your actions.

- Patience: The Art of Peaceful Living, Allan Lokos

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

- The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration, Vera Nazarian

Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.

- The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan Doyle

Treat other people's home as you want them to respect yours because what goes around comes around.

- Ana Monnar

But this was what happened when you didn't want to visit and confront the past: the past starts visiting and confronting you.

- Lunar Park, Bret Easton Ellis

When you plant a seed of love, it is you that blossoms.

- The 11 Karmic Spaces: Choosing Freedom from the Patterns That Bind You, Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati

But, mark my words; someday she'll get what's coming to her. Karma's a bigger bitch than she is,

- Kathleen Brooks

Some day people will ask me what is the key to my success...and I will simply say, "good Karma.

- K. Crumley

Strange things conspire when one tries to cheat fate

- The Son of Neptune, Rick Riordan

Karma is a cruel mistress.

- Hushed, Kelley York

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.

- Shadow Selves, H. Raven Rose

If karma doesn't catch up, God will surely pick up the slack.

- Anthony Liccione

You have to appreciate where you have come from to know who you are in the present and whom you would like to be in the future.

- Unrequited, Truth Devour

I believe in fate and I believe that things happen for a reason but I don't think that there's a high power, necessarily. I believe in karma very much though.

- Amy Winehouse

You are the ruler of my heart. There is no measure greater than this.

- Unrequited, Truth Devour

If your actions were to boomerang back on you instantly, would you still act the same? Doing to others an act you'd rather not have done to you reveals a powerful internal conflict.

- Alexandra Katehakis

Never surrender to you're passions. Dream and live to excess.

- Unrequited, Truth Devour

To experience what isn't, love what is.

- Eric Micha'el Leventhal

I want revenge, but I don't want to screw up my karma.

- Take Me There, Susane Colasanti

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.

- The Death of King Arthur: A New Verse Translation, Simon Armitage

You made your own bed, and now curse others for putting you there.

- The Lives of Tao, Wesley Chu

Nothing amuses people more than a cocky guy who starts losing.

- Criss Jami

Good things could happen to not so bad people.

- My Legendary Girlfriend, Mike Gayle

Karma is a bitch.

- V.K. Springs

Don't wait for a better world. Start now to create a world of harmony and peace. It is up to you, and it always has been. You may even find the solution at the end of your fork.

- Yoga and Vegetarianism: The Path to Greater Health and Happiness, Sharon Gannon

Life ends with a snap of small bones, a head cracked from its stem, and a spirit unmoored...

- Jane Was Here, Sarah Kernochan

Many believe in karma but i take it to a whole different level.

- Vincent Alexandria

As long as karma exists, the world changes. There will always be karma to be taken care of

- Nina Hagen

Totally present in this moment for you.

- Unrequited, Truth Devour

Peace is the foundation of yoga. Karma yoga is the effort for bringing peace and happiness in the world.

- Yoga The Science of Well-Being, Amit Ray

Maybe but... if being impulsive means ruining other people's lives, then maybe I should just stay the same.

- Take Me There, Susane Colasanti

Bukan karma yang menentukan hidupmu, Tuhan lah yang menentukan hidupmu. Hanya saja, Tuhan mengijinkan setiap hal apapun terjadi di dalam hidupmu.

- gmwr

The core practice of magic is: The execution of a willed intent to create change in the material world, which either defies, hastens or purifies the consequences of natural cause and effect.

- Zeena Schreck

It was not a coincidence. It was not deja vu. It was destiny. It was my destiny to meet her.

- The Doppelganger: A Psychological Thriller, P. Wish

Teaching yoga itself is great karma yoga, because it reconnects people to the source.

- Yoga The Science of Well-Being, Amit Ray

The purpose of karma yoga is to transcend the bondage of selfish genes through the service of others.

- Yoga The Science of Well-Being, Amit Ray

If you want me, take me," she dared him.

- Dark Alpha's Embrace, Donna Grant

Whatever you do to the animals, you do to yourself.

- Touching Spirit Bear, Ben Mikaelsen

Universe first gives you; what you wished for others.

- Aditya Ajmera

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