Inner Peace Quotes - Page 2

• The real destroyer of inner peace is fear and distrust. Fear develops frustration, frustration develops anger, anger develops violence.

  Dalai Lama

  Trust, Wisdom, Peace

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• The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Motivational, Inspirational Running, Track

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• Learn silence. With the quiet serenity of a meditative mind, listen, absorb, transcribe, and transform.

  Pythagoras

  Silence, Serenity, Mind

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• Listen to the inner light;
  It will guide you.
  Listen to the inner Peace;
  It will feed you.
  Listen to the inner Love;
  It will transform you,
  It will divinise you,
  It will immortalise you.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Love, Peace, Light

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• Having lots of money while not having inner peace is like dying of thirst while bathing in the ocean.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Ocean, Dying, Thirst

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• 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. Pirsig

  Self, Mind, Doe

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• Nothing external to you has any power over you.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Positive, Powerful, Caring

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  Our life is frittered away by detail... simplify, simplify.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Business, Simple

  Walden ch. 2 (1854)

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• We don't realize that, somewhere within us all, there does exist a supreme self who is eternally at peace.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Yoga, Self, Doe

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.118, A&C Black

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• When you were born, you cried and everybody else was happy. The only question that matters is this - when you die, will you be happy when everybody else is crying?

  Tony Campolo

  Happiness, Matter, Cry

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• No one can find inner peace except by working, not in a self- centered way, but for the whole human family.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Family, Self, Peace Of Mind

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.132, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• Pleasure is always derived from something outside you, whereas joy arises from within.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, Freedom, Joy

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.29, New World Library

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• Heaven is to be at peace with things.

  George Santayana

  Heaven

  George Santayana (1936). “The philosophy of Santayana”, Random House

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• Your thoughts are the architects of your destiny.

  David O. McKay

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• I am content; that is a blessing greater than riches; and he to whom that is given need ask no more.

  Henry Fielding

  Blessing, Needs, Riches

  Henry Fielding (2012). “Joseph Andrews”, p.112, Courier Corporation

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• Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Inspirational, Happiness, Depression

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.1681, Library of Alexandria

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• Now there is living to give instead of to get. As you concentrate on the giving, you discover that just as you cannot receive without giving, so neither can you give without receiving - even the most wonderful things like health and happiness and inner peace. There is a feeling of endless energy, it just never runs out, it seems to be as endless as air. You seem to be plugged in to the source of universal energy.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Running, Air, Giving

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.23, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• To be consistent in achieving inner peace, we must perceive a world where everyone is innocent.

  Gerald Jampolsky

  Peace, World, Innocent

  Gerald G. Jampolsky (2010). “Love Is Letting Go of Fear, Third Edition”, p.107, Celestial Arts

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• This inner peace of mind occurs on three levels of understanding. Physical quietness seems the easiest to achieve, although there are levels and levels of this too, as attested by the ability of Hindu mystics to live buried alive for many days. Mental quietness, in which one has no wandering thoughts at all, seems more difficult, but can be achieved. But value quietness, in which one has no wandering desires at all but simply performs the acts of his life without desire, that seems the hardest.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Understanding, Mind, Desire

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• Without inner peace, outer peace is impossible. We all wish for world peace, but world peace will never be acheived unless we first establish peace within our own minds. We can send so-called 'peacekeeping forces' into areas of conflict, but peace cannot be oppossed from the outside with guns. Only by creating peace within our own mind and helping others to do the same can we hope to achieve peace in this world.

  Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

  Peace, Gun, Helping Others

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• Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.

  Saint Augustine

  Happiness, Happy, Determination

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• Peacefulness is an inner sense of calm - it comes from becoming still - in order to reflect and meditate on our inner wisdom and receive answers. A peaceful heart is one that is free from worry and rouble. It's becoming quiet so we can look at things quietly so we can more clearly understand them and thus come up with creative solutions. It is learning to live in the present. Freedom from desire leads to inner peace.

  Laozi

  Heart, Order, Worry

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• Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.

  Karl Marx

  Life, Happiness, Philosophical

  Karl Marx, Loyd David Easton, Kurt H. Guddat (1997). “Writings of the Young Marx on Philosophy and Society”, p.39, Hackett Publishing

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• Working in the garden . . . gives me a profound feeling of inner peace. Nothing here is in a hurry. There is no rush toward accomplishment, no blowing of trumpets. Here is the great mystery of life and growth. Everything is changing, growing, aiming at something, but silently, unboastfully, taking its time.

  Ruth Stout

  Garden, Giving, Profound

  Ruth Stout (1987). “How to Have a Green Thumb Without an Aching Back: A New Method of Mulch Gardening”, Fireside

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• When we start to feel anxious or depressed, instead of asking, "What do I need to get to be happy?" The question becomes, "What am I doing to disturb the inner peace that I already have?"

  D.T. Suzuki

  Needs, Asking, Anxious

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