Finding Peace Quotes - Page 3

• I had a great tennis career. I have no regrets. But to find peace with yourself, and to finally be with your family - I'm probably the happiest guy in the world.

  Bjorn Borg

  Regret, Careers, Tennis

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• It's surprisingly nice out here, peaceful and pretty-strange to be standing in the middle of a little garden while enclosed by the massive stone walls of the prison, like being at the exact center of a hurricane, and finding peace and silence in the middle of so much shrieking damage.

  Lauren Oliver

  Wall, Nice, Garden

  Lauren Oliver (2015). “Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem”, p.242, Hachette UK

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• All things issue from it; all things return to it. To find the origin, trace back the manifestations. When you recognize the children and find the mother, you will be free of sorrow. If you close your mind in judgements and traffic with desires, your heart will be troubled. If you keep your mind from judging and aren't led by the senses, your heart will find peace. Seeing into darkness is clarity. Knowing how to yield is strength. Use your own light and return to the source of light. This is called practicing eternity.

  Laozi

  Mother, Children, Heart

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• Eventually, we reach the point where we start to realize that we are not going to find peace, contentment, happiness, strength, fearlessness - all of the things that in our heart of hearts we wish we had - outside of us.

  Guy Finley

  Heart, Wish, Contentment

  "Step Into True Wholeness" by Guy Finley, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 26, 2012.

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• My work has to do with a defense against fervor. People are always in a rush. To do what? To do nothing! There is a kind of fervor that is completely meaningless. This drawing is a call for meditation.... I am an insomniac, so for me the state of being asleep is paradise. It is a paradise I can never reach. But I still try to conquer the insomnia, and to a large extent I have done it; it is conquerable. My drawings are a kind of rocking or stroking and an attempt at finding peace. Peaceful rhythm. Like rocking a baby to sleep.

  Louise Bourgeois

  Baby, Sleep, Insomnia

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• We cannot find peace if we are afraid of the windstorms of life.

  Copyright: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Family Limited Partnership.

  Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

  Inspirational, Inspirational Life, Ifs

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• I had a tough career. I then resolved to find peace. And, I finally found Islam.

  Nicolas Anelka

  Careers, Islam, Tough

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• How can I be my best if I never fail,
  and how can I ever find peace if I never yell.

  Jessica Simpson

  Failing, Ifs

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• Inner peace can be reached only when we practice forgiveness.

  Gerald Jampolsky

  Forgiveness, Letting Go, Practice

  Gerald G. Jampolsky (2010). “Love Is Letting Go of Fear, Third Edition”, p.58, Celestial Arts

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• It is no easy task to walk this earth and find peace. Inside of us, it would seem, something is at odds with the very rhythm of things and we are forever restless, dissatisfied, frustrated, and aching. We are so overcharged with desire that it is hard to come to simple rest. Desire is always stronger than satisfaction.

  Ronald Rolheiser

  Simple, Odds, Forever

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• World peace will never be stable until enough of us find inner peace to stabilize it

  Peace Pilgrim

  Peace, World, Enough

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.99, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• Rushing around, hoping to find peace of mind anywhere other than within yourself, is like looking for your heart in someone else's body!

  Guy Finley

  Heart, Rushing, Mind

  FaceBook post by Guy Finley from Mar 12, 2016

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• If I can't have love, if I can't find peace, / Give me a bitter glory.

  Anna Akhmatova

  Giving, Bitter, Glory

  Anna Andreevna Akhmatova, D. M. Thomas (2006). “Poems”, Knopf Publishing Group

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• That's all my grandfather was guilty of, fear, faith in his words, but that was a high crime in her eyes. That's all Jack was guilty of that day, but I've lived with him a good while and I believe I understand him. Sometimes it might take an afternoon or evening of being here in this kitchen alone, thinking, but I can usually come to see his reasons through his ways. And half the job of finding peace is finding understanding. Don't you believe it to be so?

  Kaye Gibbons

  Jobs, Fear, Believe

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• I now find peace in the realization that countless potential masterpieces happen each moment the world over and go unphotographed. The world owes a great debt to all those who have, from a state of exceptional awareness, preserved stillness for us to hold.

  Dan Winters

  Realization, Debt, World

  Dan Winters (2014). “Road to Seeing”, p.1967, New Riders

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• Many of us may have watched the waves at sea. They rise, then fall, then rise again, then fall again... and this cycle continues endlessly. It is the same with our experience of the world and its objects and relationships. We may find happiness, but this happiness will soon turn to sorrow. The sorrow that we feel will subsequently turn back to happiness but this oscillation continues endlessly. In order to maintain inner balance, we need to find peace within instead of depending on the external world.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Spiritual, Fall, Order

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• 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. Poonja

  Negativity, Inner Peace, Mind

  H. W. L. Poonja, Prashanti De Jager (2000). “The Truth Is”, p.188, Weiser Books

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• When I create an image that helps someone - even just myself - find peace, then I've attained my goal.

  Evelyn Lauder

  Goal, Helping

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• Only in the reality of the present can we love, can we awaken, can we find peace and understanding and connection with ourselves and the world.

  Jack Kornfield

  Reality, Understanding, World

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• Before men can find peace and harmony within themselves they must first fall in love with their country.

  Lord Acton

  Country, Falling In Love, Peace

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• I know you think my life is good 'cause my diamond piece,
  But my life been good since I started finding peace.

  Nas

  Rap, Life Is Good, Thinking

  Song: Loco-Motive, 2012

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• When we renounce our dreams, we find peace and enjoy a brief period of tranquillity, but the dead dreams begin to rot inside us and to infect the whole atmosphere in which we live. What we hoped to avoid in the Fight -disappointment and defeat- become the sole legacy of our cowardice.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Dream, Disappointment

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• Despite the obvious fault in the universe, it cannot be used as an excuse for not trying to be your best self. Instead, use unfairness as a starting point to be sure that your actions are the best you can muster, and find peace in navigating your time here with grace and humor whenever possible.

  Valerie Plame

  Self, Grace, Trying

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• To you who are worthy and able to attend the temple, I would admonish you to go often. The temple is a place where we can find peace. There we receive a renewed dedication to the gospel and a strengthened resolve to keep the commandments.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Dedication, Able, Temples

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• I've got to have a place where I can find peace of mind.

  Princess Diana

  Mind, Peace Of Mind, I Can

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