Inner Peace quotes
206 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"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."
"Having lots of money while not having inner peace is like dying of thirst while bathing in the ocean."
"The peace that we are looking for is not peace that crumbles as soon as there is difficulty or chaos. Whether we’re seeking inner peace or global peace or a combination of the two, the way to experience it is to build on the foundation of unconditional openness to all that arises. Peace isn’t an experience free of challenges, free of rough and smooth, it’s an experience that’s expansive enough to include all that arises without feeling threatened."
"Learn silence. With the quiet serenity of a meditative mind, listen, absorb, transcribe, and transform."
"I would like to beg of you, dear friend, as well as I can, to have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books written in a foreign language. Do not now look for the answers. They cannot now be given to you because you could not live them. It is a question of experiencing everything."
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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."
"The task we must set for ourselves is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity."
"The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness."
"The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring."
"I have inner peace. It's a different person."
"Inner # peace begins the moment you choose not to allow another person or event to control your # emotions"
"Life at its noblest leaves mere happiness far behind; and indeed cannot endure it. Happiness is not the object of life: life has no object: it is an end in itself; and courage consists in the readiness to sacrifice happiness for an intenser quality of life."
"A smile is the beginning of peace."
"Seek peace. When you have peace within, real peace with others will be possible."
"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."
"The joy that isn't shared dies young."
"Do not blindly believe what others say. See for yourself what brings contentment, clarity and peace. That is the path for you to follow."
"For me, success is inner peace. That's a good day for me."
"If you could get rid of yourself just once, the secret of secrets would open to you. The face of the unknown, hidden beyond the universe would appear on the mirror of your perception."
"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."
"The more refined one is, the more unhappy."
"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."
"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."
"Before we can make friends with anyone else, we must first make friends with ourselves."
"Peace starts within each one of us. When we have inner peace, we can be at peace with those around us."
