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"Outward Peace is useless without inner Peace"
"If you scramble about in search of inner peace, you will lose your inner peace."
"We are never so happy, nor so unhappy, as we suppose ourselves to be."
"Heaven is to be at peace with things."
"The only test of a soul's salvation is its inward happiness."
"World peace must develop from inner peace."
"Material development alone does not yield genuine inner peace."
"Everybody loves to talk about calmness and peace, whether in a family, national, or international context, but without inner peace how can we make real peace? World peace through hatred and force is impossible."
"By developing a sense of concern for others' well-being, then no matter what others' attitudes are, you can keep inner peace."
"Happiness presents itself to man, wearing the crown of sorrow on its head. He who welcomes it must also welcome sorrow."
"What each one of us fundamentally needs is that inner peace which is to be discovered solely within ourselves, which no-one else can give, which the world with all its resources, can never supply."
"The highest happiness of man ... is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable."
"Great changes start with individuals; the basis of world peace is inner peace in the hearts of individuals."
"Peace isn't the mere absence of violence; peace must come from inner peace. And inner peace comes from taking others’ interests into account."
"Genuine peace is based on inner peace, because you cannot build peace on the basis of anger"
"If we have no inner peace, we deceive ourselves into thinking that comfort and prosperity will bring happiness."
"It is much more likely that help comes in when what you are doing is done while you are in a state of inner peace, rather than resistance."
"I get those fleeting, beautiful moments of inner peace and stillness - and then the other 23 hours and 45 minutes of the day, I'm a human trying to make it through in this world."
"It is only through inner peace that we can have true outer freedom."