Michael Franti Quotes

If you're beautiful within, a person can fall in love with your spirit.

Instead of hating, I have chosen to forgive and spend all of my positive energy on changing the world.

Let my soul smile through my heart and my heart smile through my eyes, that I may scatter rich smiles in sad hearts.

Compassion isn't morose; it's something replenishing and opening; that's why it makes us happy.

We forget some of the oldest medicines we have are love and compassion, and they can be deployed by everyone.

If you want to become an infinite source of love, then go on sharing love as much as you can. Don't be a miser; only misers lose energy.

Love is my gift to the world. I fill myself with love, and I send that love out into the world.

The real pleasure,the real peace, the real enlightenment is to give. The more you give the more you get. If you give 10, you get 100.

I want to be a healer, and love all things that grow and are not barren.

Whenever you feel ‘short’ or in ‘need’ of something, give what you want first and it will come back in buckets. That is true for money, a smile, love, friendship. I know it is often the last thing a person may want to do, but it has always worked for me. I just trust that the principle of reciprocity is true, and I give what I want.

I have manifested everything I want in the way of physical things. I have a beautiful family and enough abundance to take care of them. I put my attention on manifesting for other people, helping those who are less fortunate.

We plant seeds that will flower as results in our lives, so best to remove the weeds of anger, avarice, envy and doubt, that peace and abundance may manifest for all.

Purposeful giving is not as apt to deplete one's resources; it belongs to that natural order of giving that seems to renew itself even in the act of depletion.

A flow of happiness and abundance will manifest when you have reached the deepest level of yourSelf.

Be relentlessly generous, without focusing on when it will come back to you.

Life is bringing me everything I need and MORE!

Gratitude opens the door to... the power, the wisdom, the creativity of the universe. You open the door through gratitude.

Love is the cure, for your pain will keep giving birth to more pain until your eyes constantly exhale love as effortlessly as your body yields its scent.

The superfluous blossoms on a fruit tree are meant to symbolize the large way God loves to do pleasant things.

God comes right out and tells us why he gives us more money than we need. It's not so we can find more ways to spend it. It's not so we can indulge ourselves and spoil our children. It's not so we can insulate ourselves from needing God's provision. It's so we can give and give generously (2 Corinthians 8:14; 9:11)

If you want to serve the universe, the obvious place to begin is right where you are. That's where I began. I looked at every situation I came into and wondered, 'What can I do to be of service in this situation?' Sometimes there was nothing I could do, but often there was - a helping hand, a word of cheer, a pleasant smile. Then, after I had given a lot, a most wonderful spiritual receiving began - giving me more to give.

The flow of blessings in our life is directly related to our passing blessings along to someone else.

We can never bring anything to us unless we are GRATEFUL for what we have. In fact, if somebody was completely and utterly GRATEFUL for everything, they would never have to ask for anything, because it would be given to them before they even asked. That is the power of GRATITUDE!

Love is what we are in our essence, and the more love we feel in our hearts, the more it will be brought to us.