Quotes
For Inner Peace
"The
best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it."
-- Richard Bach
Spiritual
energy brings compassion into the world.
-- Christina Baldwin (b. 1946)
"Inner
peace is beyond victory or defeat."
-- Bhagavad Gita
I
learned that the interior of life was as rewarding as
the exterior of life, and that my richest moments occurred
when I was absolutely still.
-- Richard Bode (b. 1931)
"We
need to meditate on what is peaceful. Once we have 'filled
up' in this way, we once again have an abundance of
love to send out into the world."
-- Jean Shinoda Bolen (b. 1936)
Without
peace of mind, life is just a shadow of its possibilities.
-- Jean Borysenko
"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
If
there is light in the soul, there will be beauty in
the person. If there is beauty in the person, there
will be harmony in the house. If there is harmony in
the house, there will be order in the nation. If there
is order in the nation, there will be peace in the world.
-- Chinese Proverb
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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.
-- 14th
Dalai Lama
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"Acquire
inner peace and a multitude will find their salvation
near you."
-- Catherine de Hueck Doherty
No
one can get inner peace by pouncing on it, by vigorously
willing to have it ... Peace is a consciousness of springs
too deep for earthly droughts to dry up. Peace is the
gift not of volitional struggle but of spiritual hospitality.
-- Harry Emerson Dosdick (1878-1969)
"For
peace of mind, we need to resign as general manager
of the universe."
-- Larry Eisenberg
Public
peace is built in private.
-- Quinn Eli
"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 |
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"As
soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live."
-- Goethe
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Real
peace is not in power, money, or weapons, but in
deep inner peace.
-- Thich
Nhat Hanh (b. 1926) |
"It
doesn't matter what we do until we accept ourselves.
Once we accept ourselves, it doesn't matter what we
do."
-- Charly Heavenrich
Ultimately,
we have just one moral duty: to reclaim large areas
of peace in ourselves, more and more peace, and to reflect
it towards others. And the more peace there is in us,
the more peace there will also be in our troubled world.
-- Etty Hillesum
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"Peace
is a necessary condition of spirituality, no less
than an inevitable result of it."
-- Aldous
Huxley |
Your
vision will become clear only when you look into your
heart.
-- Carl Jung (1875-1961)
"First
keep the peace within
yourself, then you can also bring peace to others."
-- Thomas a Kempis (1380-1471)
"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
"I
am able to close my eyes and generate the feeling of
total peace anywhere and anytime."
-- Mary Maddox
"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.)
"If
he is to be ultimately at peace with himself, what a
man can be, he must be."
-- Abraham Maslow (1908-1970)
"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 |
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"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
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"Peace
is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition
of mind brought about by a serenity of soul… Lasting
peace can come only to peaceful people."
-- Jawaharal
Nehru |
Part
of being a helathy person is being well integrated and
at peace.
-- Candace Pert
"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
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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? 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
Cultivate
peace of mind which does not separate one's self from
one's surroundings. When that is done successfully,
then everything else follows naturally.
-- Robert M. Prisig (b. 1928)
"What
we achieve inwardly will change outer reality."
-- Otto Rank
The
true, or higher part of the self is always seeking the
state that mystics talk about, the state in which we
are filled with a universal love and a peaceful euphoria.
-- James Redfield
"It
is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is
not possible to find it elsewhere."
-- Agnes Repplier.
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"Before
we can make friends with anyone else, we must first
make friends with ourselves."
-- Eleanor
Roosevelt |
"Heaven
is to be at peace with things."
-- George Santayana (1863-1952)
"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 |
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We
can find common ground only by moving to higher ground
-- Jim Wallis
The
only test of a soul's salvation is its inward happiness.
-- Lin Yutang (1895-1976)
"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
Quotes
for a Culture of Peace
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To Celebrate
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