Karma is defined as the sum of a person’s actions in their previous lives and this life as well. Quotes about karma in relationships help broaden your perspective of life. Originally, the concept of karma was followed mainly by Hindus and Buddhists and was believed to decode their fate and of their grandchildren and well. In relationships, we go through a rollercoaster of emotions from love, hate, joy, passion, anger to betrayal. Karma is a great leveler in relationships and life, as everyone gets what they deserve. Read on for some profound quotes about the role of karma in your relationship.
155+ Quotes About Karma In Relationship
- “How people treat you is their karma. How you react is yours.”• Wayne Dyer
- “Karma is very sad, I thought. Oh! It is upside down.”• Arvind Ravichandran
- “Karma comes after everyone eventually.”• Jessica Brody
- “Your karma should be good, and everything else will follow. Your good karma will always win over your bad luck.”
• Rohit Shetty - “A boomerang returns back to the person that throws it.”
• Vera Nazarian - “Forgive the person and their actions; never give in to hate. Let it go, set it free, and karma will take care of what is meant to be.”
• Anonymous - “Live a good and honorable life. Then, when you are older, you can look back and enjoy it a second time.”
• Dalai Lama
- “I try to live with the idea that karma is a very real thing. So I put out what I want to get back.”
• Megan Fox - “I want revenge, but I don’t want to screw up my karma.”
• Susan Colasanti - “Maybe we are just each other’s karma.”
• Anonymous - “Learn how to see. Realize that everything connects to everything else.”
• Leonardo da Vinci - “That game of consequences to which we all sit down, the hanger-back not least.”
• Robert Louis Stevenson - ‘Eventually, you are answerable to yourself for your deeds. Be good and do good!”
• Harsh Agrawal - “Conscious action does not produce karma – reaction does.” – Sadhguru
- “Let the players play, let the haters hate, and let karma handle their fate.”
• Anonymous - Often when someone hurts you, they aren’t hurting you because you are you. They are hurting you because they are them.”
• Karen Salmansohn - “Karma is like a rubber band. You can only stretch it so far before it comes back and smacks you in the face.”
• Anonymous - “I’m kind of crazy with karma. I really believe that everything you do revisits you, so, I’m really adamant about the kids seeing the grandparents, so like, I can see my grandkids, you know what I mean?”
• Joel Madden - ‘Sometimes you have to decide in a way that will hurt your soul but heal your soul.”
• Anonymous - “A woman brought you into this world, so you have no right to disrespect one.”
• Tupac Shakur - “When you plant a seed of love, it is you that blossoms.”
• Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati - “The universe has a way of balancing the ledger in relationships. It’s called karma.”
• Unknown - “Fools take a knife and stab people in the back. The wise take a knife, cut the cord, and set themselves free from the fools.”
• Anonymous - “When you truly understand karma, then you realize you are responsible for everything in your life.”
• Keanu Reeves - “My actions are my only true belongings. I cannot escape the consequences of my actions. My actions are the ground on which I stand.”
• Thich Nhat Hanh
- “I’m a true believer in karma. You get what you give, whether it’s bad or good.”
• Sandra Bullock - “A man is born alone and dies alone, and he experiences the good and bad consequences of his karma alone, and he goes alone to hell or the Supreme abode.”
• Chanakya - “As long as karma exists, the world changes. There will always be karma to be taken care of.”
• Nina Hagen - “Karma is a balance sheet of life which debits and credits all your deeds. Which is audited by our creator, and actions are based on what we accumulated in it.”
• Abhishek Shukla - “If you give good things to the world, then over time, your karma will be good, and you’ll receive good.”
• Russell Simmons - “Your relationship karma functions as the mirror of your intentions.”
• Anonymous - “I’m also married for the first time, and I have two kids. So there’s some kind of good karma right now.”
• Lindsey Buckingham - “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 - “Treat other people’s home as you want them to respect yours because what goes around, comes around.”
• Ana Monnar - “I can’t deal with someone wanting to take a relationship backward or needing space or cheating on you.”
• Taylor Swift
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- ”I can’t deal with someone wanting to take a relationship backward or needing space or cheating on you.”
• Taylor Swift
- “The same one who mistreated you will end up needing you…. It is the circle of life.”
• Ziad K. Abdelnour - “Life is a boomerang. What you give, you get.”
• Anonymous - “I believe in Karma. If the good is sown, the good is collected. When positive things are made, that returns well.”
• Yannick Noah - “Karma: getting what you deserve and deserving what you get.”
• Anonymous - “It’s already bad. I’m honestly not sure how much worse it’s going to get.”
• Cat Adams - “Karma, when properly understood, is just the mechanics through which consciousness manifests.”
• Deepak Chopra - “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 - “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.”
• Kuan Yin - “Even though my first marriage broke up, I’d say that I’ve had two good marriages and two good men. I’ve been very lucky. I like to think it’s karma because, in a relationship, I give 300 percent. I’m straight with my men, and I like to think it comes back.”
• Suzi Quantro - “Dear Karma, I really hate you right now; you made your point.”
• Ottilie Weber - “Karma moves in two directions. If we act virtuously, the seed we plant will result in happiness. If we act non-virtuously, suffering results.”
• Sakyong Mipham - “Karma, simply put, is an action for an action, good or bad.”
• Stephen Richards - “Karma’s just sharpening her nails and finishing her drink. She says she’ll be with you shortly.”
• Anonymous - “We have to be nice to ourselves and others in order for life to run smoothly. This is just how it goes: a fun little game of the universe we like to sometimes call karma.”
• Tara Stiles - “”Your relationship karma showcases what your heart desires.””
• Anonymous - “If your actions were to boomerang back on you instantly, would you still act the same?”
• Alexandra Katehakis - “Before you act, you have freedom, but after you act, the effect of that action will follow you whether you want it to or not. That is the law of karma.”
• Paramahansa Yogananda
- “Karma is karma. Karma is in life. You do the wrong things, you get the wrong things out of it.”
• Antonio Brown - “Don’t fear God. Fear Karma. God forgives, Karma doesn’t!”
• Anonymous - “When you carry out acts of kindness, you get a wonderful feeling inside. It is as though something inside your body responds and says, ‘Yes, this is how I ought to feel.’”
• Harold Kushner - “Universe first gives you what you wished for others.”
• Aditya Ajmera - “I heard that karma is vengeful and is also a light sleeper.”
• Rudy Francisco - “But this was what happened when you didn’t want to visit and confront the past: The past starts visiting and confronting you.”
• Bret Easton Ellis - “What goes around comes back around.”
• Anonymous - “You will never understand the damage you did to another person until the same is done to you.”
• Unknown - “Sometimes you get what’s coming around. And sometimes you are what’s coming around.”
• Jim Butcher - “For the innocent, the past may hold a reward. But for the treacherous, it’s only a matter of time before the past delivers what they truly deserve.”
• Emily Thorne - “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.”
• F. Paul Wilson - “Like gravity, karma is so basic we often don’t even notice it.”
• Sakyong Mipham - “As she has planted, so does she harvest; such is the field of karma.”
• Sri Guru Granth Sahib - “Men are not punished for their sins, but by them.”
• Elbert Hubbard - “Don’t worry, eventually everything falls into its rightful place.”
• Fakeer Ishavardas - “”In love, karma has the role of being the orchestrator of fate.””
• Anonymous - “I believe in karma, and I believe if you put out positive vibes to everybody, that’s all you’re going to get back.”
• Kesha - “I believe that the laws of karma do not apply to show business, where good things happen to bad people on a fairly regular basis.”
• Chuck Lorre - “When the karma of a relationship is done, only love remains. It’s safe. Let go.”
• Elizabeth Gilbert - “Everything you do comes back to you.”
• Anonymous - “The universe does not carry debts. It always returns back to you what you gave it.”
• Drishti Bablani - “Karma bides its time. You will always have to watch out. Karma is unforgiving and always gets payback.”
• Benjamin Bayani - “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 - “I don’t have any reason to hate anybody; I believe in good karma and spreading good energy.”
• Vanilla Ice - “Karma always sees to it that love always comes full circle.”
• Unknown - “Do good, and good will follow you.”
• Unknown
- “Never regret being a good person to the wrong people. Your behavior says everything about you, and theirs says enough about them.”
• Anonymous - “Karma is not just about the troubles, but also about surmounting them.”
• Rick Springfield - “Karma is nothing more than a reminder that we are ONE. Harming others we ultimately end up harming ourselves.”
• Gordana Biernat - “Most times, how you treat your children is how they grow up to treat you.”
• Terry Mark - “You have to be very careful when involving yourself with someone else’s karma.”
• Brownell Landrum - “The love you send into the world, you will find, is the love that returns to you.”
• Avina Celeste - “The next time you find yourself throwing mental darts at someone who betrayed you, just remember karma has a better aim.”
• Jaclyn Johnston - “I’m not a believer in karma. The reason why I try to be a good person is that I think it’s the right thing.”
• Daniel Handler - “I never kill insects. If I see ants or spiders in the room, I pick them up and take them outside. Karma is everything.”
• Holly Valance - “Revenge will never solve anything, karma will.”
• Anonymous - “You cannot control the results, only your actions.”
• Allan Lokos - “Karma has a surprising way of taking care of situations. All you have to do is to sit back and watch.”
• Candace Bushnell - “You made your own bed, and now curse others for putting you there.”
• Wesley Chu - “Nobody deserves misery but sometimes it’s just your turn.”
• J. Earp - “The ones you judge today may be the judgments you endure tomorrow.”
• Unknown - “They who give have all things; they who withhold have nothing.”
• Hindu Proverb - “”Karma grows from our hearts. Karma terminates from our hearts.’’
• Gautama Buddha - “I’ve got a big heart and I believe in good karma.”
• E-40 - “A person who lacks accountability will still deny the karma they’re receiving, even when everything around them is burning to the ground..”
• Robin S. Baker - “When someone has a strong intuitive connection, Buddhism suggests that it’s because of karma, some past connection.”
• Richard Gere - “Show a little faith in someone when they need it. It’s amazing how it comes back around to you.”
• Garon Whited - “Someday people will ask me what is the key to my success…and I will simply say, ‘Good Karma’.”
• K. Crumley - “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 - “Nothing happens by chance, by fate. You create your own fate by your actions. That’s Karma.”
• Anonymous - ”Not only is there often a right and wrong but what goes around does come around. Karma exists.”
• Donald Van de Mark - “Thoughts lead on to purposes; purposes go forth in action; actions form habits; habits decide character; and character fixes our destiny.”
• Tyron Edwards - “Stop blaming others for the pains and sufferings you have. They are because of you, your karma, and your own disposition.”
• Girdhar Joshi - “If karma doesn’t catch up, God will surely pick up the slack.”
• Anthony Liccione - “Whatever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.”
• The Bible - “This is your karma. You do not understand now, but you will understand later.”
• H. Raven Rose - “Don’t waste your time on revenge. Those who hurt you will eventually face their own karma.”
• Anonymous - “Love without expecting anything in return, and allow karma to bring love back to you.’’
• Anonymous
- “I believe in karma; what you do will come back.”
• DJ Premier - “One thing about them tables… They always turn.”
• Anonymous - “You win some, you lose some, let Karma take its course.”
• Cocoy McCoy - “The more love you give away, the more love you will receive.”
• Anonymous - “But life inevitably throws us curve balls, unexpected circumstances that remind us to expect the unexpected. I’ve come to understand these curve balls are the beautiful unfolding of both karma and current.”
• Carre Otis - “Karma is like boomerang; bad the karma bigger the force.”
• Naresh Soni - “When karma lands, it lands hard.”
• Tom Fitton - “I’m a believer in karma, and I’m also a believer that things happen for a reason.”
• Bill Goldberg - “By each crime and every kindness, we birth our future.”
• David Mitchell - “Everyone gets dumped and everyone gets hurt and there’s karma to love in regards to what you’ve done to other people.”
• Marina and the Diamonds - “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 - “Is Fate getting what you deserve, or deserving what you get?”
• Jodi Picoult - “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 - “Karma is justice. It does not reward or punish because we have to earn all that we receive.”
• Mary T. Browne - “I hope Karma slaps you in the face before I do.”
• Anonymous - “There is a god. Her name is Karma, and she has a messed up sense of humor.”
• Jeremy Szal - “You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.”
• Ralph Waldo Emerson - ”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 - “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.”
• Haruki Murakami
- “Karma teaches every person that love is the most powerful force in the entire universe.”
• Anonymous - “Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.”
• Arthur Conan Doyle - “When you lie and do wrongs to others, you lie and do wrongs to yourself. That is why it is impossible to escape Karma in the long term.”
• Jack Freestone - “There’s a natural law of karma that vindictive people, who go out of their way to hurt others, will end up broke and alone.”
• Sylvester Stallone - “We must always reflect only what we wish to see reflected within us.”
• Robin Sacredfire - “Just try to do the right thing, and that’s immediate karma: ‘I feel good about myself.’”
• Linda Thompson - “A person’s true colors will always show over time. You may be fooled for the moment, but be patient and see what happens.”
• Anonymous - “Everybody comes from the same source. If you hate another human being, you’re hating part of yourself.”
• Elvis Presley - “”I’m a very firm believer in karma, and put it this way: I get a lot of good parking spots.””
• Al Jourgensen - “I believe in fate. Sometimes that means an old bearded guy sitting on a cloud and pulling the strings; sometimes it means random atoms swirling through a cheerless universe; sometimes it means everything being preordained thanks to your karma credit from your previous lives.”
• Kyle MacLachlan - “I hope the bus you threw me under swerves to hit you on the sidewalk.”
• Anonymous - “Regardless of what we do, our karma has no hold on us.”
• Bodhidharma - “Some people create their own storms and then get mad when it rains.”
• Anonymous - “People who use other people as stepping stones will one day lose their balance.”
• Anonymous - “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 - “It’s called karma, and it’s pronounced ha-ha-ha-ha.”
• Unknown - “Karma is extremely efficient if one is extremely patient.”
• Efrat Cybulkiewicz - “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.”
• James Baldwin - “I must have killed a lot of cows in a past life for Karma to hate me this much.’’
• Katie McGarry - “People who create their own drama deserve their own karma.”
• Anonymous
- “You cannot do harm to someone because someone has done harm to you. You will pay just like they will.”
• Ericka Williams - “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 - “I do not believe in karma. However, I practice it every day because it tricks me into being a better person!”
• Clint Diffie - “Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.”
• Edwin Hubbel Chapin - “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 - “Whatever we do lays a seed in our deepest consciousness, and one day that seed will grow.”
• Sakyong Mipham - “People seldom appreciate the pain they’ve caused until that pain is visited upon them. This is not vengeance. It is education.”
• Wayne Gerard Trotman - “And karma said, you will love someone who doesn’t love you for not loving someone who did.”
• Anonymous - “It doesn’t matter who hurt you or broke you down. What matters is who made you smile again.”
• Anonymous
Illustration: Quotes About Karma In Relationship And Love
Frequently Asked Questions
1. How does relationship karma work?
Relationship karma is associated with the idea of cause and effect. It suggests that the energy and intentions you put into your relationships will come back to you in some form. For instance, good karma helps build a harmonious relationship, while bad karma tends to fill the partners with resentment. This is how fundamentally relationship karma works.
2. How do I know if a relationship is karmic?
The signs of having a karmic relationship include a strong, intense, and instant connection with the other individual. Emotional turbulence, jealousy, and miscommunication may lead to a bad karmic relationship. On the other hand, openness, congeniality, and equality promote good karma in a relationship.
3. How do I get rid of bad karma in my relationship?
Identify the root cause for all the actions leading to bad karma. Actions could be due to detrimental emotions, such as those triggered by mental health issues, or external factors, such as jealousy towards a third person or interference by third parties. Discuss with your partner the likely causes; even if the triggers are from their end, offer to resolve them. This will be a win-win, eradicating causes of bad karma while generating good karma.
4. How can I apply relationship karma quotes in my daily life?
You can use karma quotes in your everyday life by thinking about how your actions might affect others and your relationship. Try to do good things without expecting anything back. When something bad happens, think about how your actions might have led to it. Use quotes like “Whatever a man soweth, that shall he also reap,” to remind yourself that your actions have results. Over time, this can help you make better choices and be more thoughtful about how you treat others and yourself.
Staying true to yourself and those around you will always attract the good things. So no matter the challenges you are facing with your partner, be truthful to them and the relationship, and your good deeds will be paid off eventually. These quotes about karma in relationships will motivate you to accumulate good karma and remain hopeful. Going through these karma quotes in times of strife and pain can help you place your relationship and life in perspective and give you the clarity you need. You may also share these quotes with your partner or dear ones and encourage them to believe in the good.
Infographic: Quotes About Karma In Relationships
We all have heard the quote, “What goes around, comes around.” Well, that is how karma works. In the following infographic, we have included a few quotes that will help you understand the role of karma in relationships and love in a better way. So, do give it a read and ensure to save it.
Key Pointers
- Karma in relationships works through cause and effect. The energy and actions you bring into a relationship will eventually return to you.
- Karmic relationships can be intense and have a powerful, instant connection. However, they may also bring emotional challenges, like jealousy and miscommunication.
- If you stay true to yourself and honest in your relationships, your actions will lead to positive outcomes over time.
- Karma quotes can offer perspective and motivation. It can inspire hope and promote the accumulation of good karma.
- Identifying the root cause of negative behaviors and working through them can help cleanse bad karma and improve the relationship.
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