quotes 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 -
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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 -
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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 -
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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 -
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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 -
PeaceÂ… starts within each one of us. When we have inner peace, we can be at peace with those around us.
-- Dalai Lama -
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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.
-- Dalai LamaSource : Julian Lincoln Simon (1998). “The Ultimate Resource 2”, p.12, Princeton University Press
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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.
-- Dalai Lama -
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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.
-- Dalai Lama -
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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.
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If a person's basic state of mind is serene and calm, then it is possible for this inner peace to overwhelm a painful physical experience.
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Peace starts within each one of us. When we have inner peace, we can be at peace with those around us. When our community is in a state of peace, it can share peace with neighboring communities, and so on. When we feel love and kindness towards others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace.
-- Dalai Lama -
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Material development alone does not yield genuine inner peace.
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Whether we consider the individual, family, local, national or international level, peace must arise from inner peace. For example, making prayers for peace while continuing to harbor anger is futile. Training the mind and overcoming your anger is much more effective than mere prayer. Anger, hatred and jealousy never solve problems, only affection, concern and respect can do that.
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In order to lead a meaningful life, you need to cherish others, pay attention to human values and try to cultivate inner peace.
-- Dalai Lama -
When we have inner peace, we can be at peace with those around us. When our community is in a state of peace, it can share that peace with neighboring communities.
-- Dalai Lama -
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The real destroyer of inner peace is fear and distrust. Fear develops frustration, frustration develops anger, anger develops violence.
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Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind.
-- Daphne du MaurierSource : Daphne Du Maurier (2012). “Daphne du Maurier Omnibus 4: Rebecca; My Cousin Rachel”, p.11, Hachette UK
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Liberating oneself from the addiction of consumerism and careerism promotes inner peace.
-- David Shi -
You hear all this stuff about inner peace. Hey, there's nothing wrong with it, but I say, hit that line hard. Crack that book - Do your very best all the time and inner peace will take care of itself. The Deacon guarantees it.
-- Deacon Jones -
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Running is about finding your inner peace, and so is a life well lived.
-- Dean KarnazesSource : Dean Karnazes (2006). “Ultramarathon Man: Confessions of an All-Night Runner”, p.31, Penguin
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The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.
-- Deepak Chopra -
For me, success is inner peace. That's a good day for me.
-- Denzel Washington -
Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
-- Don Marquis -
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Regardless of the situation at hand, the answer is always found through your inner peace.
-- Doreen Virtue -
It's not the tragedies that kill us; it's the messes.
-- Dorothy Parker -
Happiness in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past.
-- Douglas Horton -
When your desire is to bring peace and harmony to the world, then you will have to start by finding peace and harmony within your own heart. It is a waste of time talking about peace. You have to seek and find that consciousness of peace which nothing and no one can disturb, and remain in it.
-- Eileen Caddy -
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It is in that inner peace and stillness that things begin to happen, and it was in that peace and stillness that I began to hear God's voice.
-- Eileen Caddy -
Before we can make friends with anyone else, we must first make friends with ourselves.
-- Eleanor RooseveltSource : "The Life You Were Born to Live : A Guide to Finding Your Life Purpose". Book by Dan Millman, p. 38, 1995.
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We don't realize that, somewhere within us all, there does exist a supreme self who is eternally at peace.
-- Elizabeth Gilbert -
The task we must set for ourselves is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity.
-- Erich Fromm -
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We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld -
Soul Mountain, the story of one man’s quest for inner peace and freedom.
-- Gao Xingjian -
Inner peace can be reached only when we practice forgiveness.
-- Gerald Jampolsky -
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Without inner peace, outer peace is impossible.
-- Geshe Kelsang Gyatso -
The more we control our mind, the more our inner peace increases and the happier we become
-- Geshe Kelsang Gyatso -
Since inner peace is the source of all happiness, we can see how important meditation is.
-- Geshe Kelsang Gyatso -
If there is peace in your mind you will find peace with everybody. If your mind is agitated you will find agitation everywhere. So first find peace within and you will see this inner peace reflected everywhere else. You are this peace!
-- H. W. L. PoonjaSource : H. W. L. Poonja, Prashanti De Jager (2000). “The Truth Is”, p.188, Weiser Books
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No one can get inner peace by pouncing on it.
-- Harry Emerson Fosdick -
No one can get inner peace by pouncing on it.--Harry Emerson FosdickNo one can get inner peace by pouncing on it.
-- Harry Emerson Fosdick -
True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one's self; but the point is not only to get out - you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand.
-- Henry JamesSource : Henry James (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry James (Illustrated)”, p.159, Delphi Classics
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Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.
-- Hermann Hesse -
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The secret to achieving inner peace lies in understanding our inner core values – those things in our lives that are most important to us – and then seeing that they are reflected in the daily events of our lives.
-- Hyrum W. Smith -
One must never look for happiness: one meets it by the way...
-- Isabelle Eberhardt -
Be patient. Your skin took a while to deteriorate. Give it some time to reflect a calmer inner state. As one of my friends states on his Facebook profile: "The true Losers in Life, are not those who Try and Fail, but those who Fail to Try."
-- Jess C Scott -
Go with the wind, you know, like a sailboat. I think that's really important when it comes to peace… inner peace especially. You can't help anyone else if you don't have it together for yourself.
-- Jhene Aiko -
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I suffer because my interactions with others do not meet the expectations I did not know I had.
-- Jim McDonald -
The quickest way to experiencing the peace inside, is to learn to recognize when I am not at peace.
-- Jim McDonald -
The gift of willingness is the only thing that stands between the quiet desperation of a disingenuous life and the actualization of unexpressed potential.
-- Jim McDonald -
The secret of happiness is something to do.
-- John Burroughs -
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Where there is no love, pour love in, and you will draw love out.
-- John of the Cross -
I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.
-- John Stuart MillSource : "The Phrenological Journal and Science of Health". "The Phrenological Journal and Science of Health", Vol. LXXXV, p. 170, September, 1887.
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True happiness involves the full use of one's power and talents.
-- John W. Gardner -
A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
-- Joseph Addison -
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Peace is more than a lofty ideal. It is a practical principle that, with conscious effort, can become a normal part of our lives as we deal with matters both large and small. One habit that prevents inner peace is procrastination. It clutters our minds with unfinished business and makes us uneasy until we finish a task and get it out of the way.
-- Joseph B. Wirthlin -
Self-understanding rather than self-condemnation is the way to inner peace and mature conscience.
-- Joshua L. Liebman -
Philosophers should consider the fact that the greatest happiness principle can easily be made an excuse for a benevolent dictatorship. We should replace it by a more modest and more realistic principle - the principle that the fight against avoidable misery should be a recognized aim of public policy, while the increase of happiness should be left, in the main, to private initiative.
-- Karl Popper -
I am constantly aware of which of the Seven Centres of Consciousness I am using and I feel my energy, perceptiveness, love and inner peace growing as I open all of the centres of consciousness.
-- Ken Keyes Jr. -
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Always engage in the quest for life's meaning, which is inner peace.
-- Longchenpa -
As I forgive, I set myself free and experience the bliss of inner peace.
-- Louise Hay -
Go for the sense of inner joy, of inner peace, of inner vision first and then all the other things from the outside appear.
-- Marci Shimoff -
Inner peace doesn't come from getting what we want, but from remembering who we are.
-- Marianne Williamson -
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Forgiveness is the key to inner peace because it is the mental technique by which our thoughts are transformed from fear to love.
-- Marianne WilliamsonSource : Marianne Williamson (1992). “A return to love: reflections on the principles of "A course in miracles"”
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There are clearly times when quieting down and bringing our energy back into ourselves is a step toward inner peace. Yet the most powerful life is not one in which we bring ourselves back to our center when we have spun away from it, but rather one in which we seek to live from that center at all times.
-- Marianne Williamson -
The key to happiness is to get the spirit and keep it.
-- Marion G. Romney -
Happiness is spiritual, born of truth and love. It is unselfish; therefore it cannot exist alone, but requires all mankind to share it.
-- Mary Baker EddySource : Mary Baker Eddy (2014). “Science And Health”, p.74, Jazzybee Verlag
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If you're looking for inner peace from the outside world, you're not going to get that. The inner peace starts with looking at you from the inside. Understanding that everything that comes to you is what you are. Everything from friends to boyfriends to the job you get - it's all a direct reflection of what you are on the inside.
-- Mary J. Blige -
If you're looking for inner peace from the outside world, you're not going to get that. The inner peace starts with looking at you from the inside.
-- Mary J. Blige -
No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days.
-- Max Planck -
When you make genuine contact with your inner Spirit, there is an inner joy, an inner peace, that takes over.
-- Michael Beckwith -
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When you find inner peace, neither the presence nor absence of any person, place or thing, condition, circumstance, or situation can be the Creator of your state of mind or the cause of your experience of being.
-- Neale Donald Walsch -
Learn to relax. Your body is precious, as it houses your mind and spirit. Inner peace begins with a relaxed body.
-- Norman Vincent Peale -
Be honest with yourself. The world is not honest with you. The world loves hypocrisy. When you are honest with yourself you find the road to inner peace.
-- Paramahansa Yogananda -
Having lots of money while not having inner peace is like dying of thirst while bathing in the ocean.
-- Paramahansa Yogananda -
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Nothing matters so much that we should throw ourselves into a state of panic about it. No happening is so important that we should let ourselves be exiled from from inner peace and mental calm for its sake.
-- Paul BruntonSource : Paul Brunton, Wisdom's Goldenrod, Ltd (1988). “The Notebooks of Paul Brunton: Advanced contemplation. The peace within you”
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There is a criterion by which you can judge whether the thoughts you are thinking and the things you are doing are right for you. The criterion is: Have they brought you inner peace?
-- Peace Pilgrim -
No one can find inner peace except by working, not in a self- centered way, but for the whole human family.
-- Peace Pilgrim -
World peace will never be stable until enough of us find inner peace to stabilize it
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