Quotes and Sayings About Inner Peace
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A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
-- Anatole France -
Happy is he to whom, in the maturer season of life, there remains one tried and constant friend...
-- Anna Letitia Barbauld -
You can never evaluate anything standing from outside; you have to evaluate yourself first.
-- Aruna Roy -
The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy.
-- Ben Stein -
Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get.
-- Bernard Meltzer -
The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.
-- Bertrand Russell -
A happy woman is one who has no cares at all; a cheerful woman is one who has cares but doesn't let them get her down.
-- Beverly Sills -
You must master your time rather than becoming a slave to the constant flow of events and demands on your time. And you must organize your life to achieve balance, harmony, and inner peace.
-- Brian Tracy -
Other inner peace quotes encourage letting go of the desire to control everything around us, and slowing down as ways of attaining inner peace.
-- Brian Weiss -
Part of being a helathy person is being well integrated and at peace.
-- Candace Pert -
The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.
-- Carl Sandburg -
Acquire inner peace and a multitude will find their salvation near you.
-- Catherine Doherty -
You have the approval of yourself. That's quite enough for we who know true inner peace! - Charmainism
-- Charmaine -
Write even when the world is chaotic. You don’t need a cigarette, silence, music, a comfortable chair, or inner peace to write. You just need ten minutes and a writing implement.
-- Cory Doctorow -
Those who have little interest in spirituality shouldn’t think that human inner values don’t apply to you. The inner peace of an alert and calm mind are the source of real happiness and good health. Our human intelligence tells us which of our emotions are positive and helpful and which are damaging and to be restrained or avoided.
-- Dalai Lama -
Peace starts within each one of us. When we have inner peace, we can be at peace with those around us.
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Compassion is a mental quality that can bring us true lasting inner peace and inner strength.
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The most important benefit of patience consists in the way it acts as a powerful antidote to the affliction of anger - the greatest threat to our inner peace, and therefore our happiness. The mind, or spirit, is not physical, it cannot be touched or harmed directly. Only negative thoughts and emotions can harm it. Therefore, only the corresponding positive quality can protect it.
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Great changes start with individuals; the basis of world peace is inner peace in the hearts of individuals.
-- Dalai Lama -
True happiness comes from having a sense of inner peace and contentment, which in turn must be achieved by cultivating altruism, love and compassion, and by eliminating anger, selfishness and greed.
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If you have peace of mind, when you meet with problems and difficulties they won’t disturb your inner peace. You’ll be able to employ your human intelligence more effectively. But, if your mental state is disturbed, full of emotion, it is very difficult to cope with problems, because the mind that is full of emotion is biased, unable to see reality. So whatever you do will be unrealistic and naturally fail.
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Genuine peace is based on inner peace, because you cannot build peace on the basis of anger
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If we have a positive mental attitude, then even when surrounded by hostility, we shall not lack inner peace.
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If your mental attitude is positive, even when threats abound, you won’t lose your inner peace. On the other hand, if your mind is negative, marked by fear, suspicion and feelings of helplessness, even among your best friends, in a pleasant atmosphere and comfortable surroundings, you won’t be happy.
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Peace isn't the mere absence of violence; peace must come from inner peace. And inner peace comes from taking others’ interests into account.
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If we have no inner peace, we deceive ourselves into thinking that comfort and prosperity will bring happiness.
-- Dalai Lama
