Quotes For Inner Peace

 

"The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it."
-- Richard Bach

"Inner peace is beyond victory or defeat."
-- Bhagavad Gita

"Do everything with a mind that lets go. Do not expect praise or reward."
-- Achaan Chah

"Looking for peace is like looking for a turtle with a mustache: you won't be able to find it. But when your heart is ready, peace will come looking for you."
-- Ajahn Chah

"Acquire inner peace and a multitude will find their salvation near you."
-- Catherine de Hueck Doherty

"For peace of mind, we need to resign as general manager of the universe."
-- Larry Eisenberg

"Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them."
-- Brenden Francis

"The task we must set for ourselves is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity."
-- Erich Fromm

"Only by having faith in ourselves can we be faithful to others."
-- Erich Fromm

"As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world -- that is the myth of the 'atomic age' -- as in being able to remake ourselves."
-- Mohandas Gandhi

"As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live."
-- Goethe

"It doesn't matter what we do until we accept ourselves. Once we accept ourselves, it doesn't matter what we do."
-- Charly Heavenrich

"Peace is a necessary condition of spirituality, no less than an inevitable result of it."
-- Aldous Huxley

"First keep the peace within yourself, then you can also bring peace to others."
-- Thomas a Kempis

"The course of human history is determined, not by what happens in the skies, but by what takes place in our hearts."
-- Sir Arthur Kent

"Keep quiet. Do your work in the world, but inwardly keep quiet. Then all will come to you."
-- Nisaragada Ha Maharaj

"He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe."
-- Marcus Aurelius (2nd century A.D.)

"Charity is in the heart of man, and righteousness in the path of men. Pity the man who has lost his path and does not follow it and who has lost his heart and does not know how to recover it. When people's dogs and chicks are lost they go out and look for them and yet the people who have lost their hearts do not go out and look for them. The principle of self-cultivation consists in nothing but trying to look for the lost heart."
-- Mencius (4th century B.C.)

"We stumble and fall constantly even when we are most enlightened. But when we are in true spiritual darkness, we do not even know that we have fallen."
-- Thomas Merton

"The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order."
-- Henry Miller

"Until you make peace with who you are, you'll never be content with what you have."
-- Doris Mortman

"When you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others."
-- 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."
-- Peace Pilgrim

"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? If they have not, there is something wrong with them -- so keep seeking! If what you do has brought you inner peace, stay with what you believe is right."
-- Peace Pilgrim

"What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality."
-- Otto Rank

"It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere."
-- Agnes Repplier.

"Before we can make friends with anyone else, we must first make friends with ourselves."
-- Eleanor Roosevelt

"A peace above all earthly dignities, a still and quiet conscience."
-- William Shakespeare

"Some people say they haven't yet found themselves. But the self is not something one finds; it is something one creates."
-- Thomas Szasz

"Know Thyself"
-- Thales of Miletus (640 - 546 B.C.)

"What lies before us and what lies behind us are small matters compared to what lies within us. And when we bring what is within out into the world, miracles happen."
-- Henry David Thoreau

We can find common ground only by moving to higher ground
-- Jim Wallis

"Living the truth in your heart without compromise brings kindness into the world. Attempts at kindness that compromise your heart cause only sadness."
-- Anonymous 18th century monk

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