Inner Peace Quotes - Page 3

• Once we have this inner peace, world peace can be achieved in the twinkling of an eye.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Peace, Eye, World

  Sri Chinmoy (2014). “The Oneness of the Eastern Heart and the Western Mind: An Introduction to Eastern Philosophy and Yoga”, p.304, Aum Publications

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• In politics nothing matters very much, and few things matter at all.

  Arthur Balfour

  Peace, Work, Matter

  "Nick Clegg's poor choices made him irrelevant, and we are all paying" by Andrew Adonis, www.theguardian.com. September 14, 2013.

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• The life of inner peace, being harmonious and without stress, is the easiest type of existence.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Happiness, Life Lesson, Stress

  Norman Vincent Peale “The Power of Positive Thinking”, Om Books International

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• When you have found inner peace, you are in constant contact with the source of universal energy and cannot be tired. . . You have endless energy.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Peace, Tired, Energy

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• Do not blindly believe what others say. See for yourself what brings contentment, clarity and peace. That is the path for you to follow.

  Gautama Buddha

  Happiness, Believe, Contentment

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• People say "I want peace." If you remove I (ego), and your want (desire), you are left with peace.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Life, Simple, People

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• If you establish serenity and happiness inside yourself, you provide the world with a solid base of peace. If you do not give yourself peace, how can you share it with others? If you do not begin your peace work with yourself, where will you go to begin it?

  Nhat Hanh

  Happiness, Giving, Serenity

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2012). “Awakening of the Heart: Essential Buddhist Sutras and Commentaries”, p.440, Parallax Press

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• Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Peace, Positivity, Self Reliance

  1841 Essays: First Series,'Self-Reliance'.

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• Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.

  Johnny Carson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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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.

  Dalai Lama

  Kindness, Community, Helping

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• Other inner peace quotes encourage letting go of the desire to control everything around us, and slowing down as ways of attaining inner peace.

  Brian Weiss

  Letting Go, Desire, Way

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• Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.

  Emily Dickinson

  Life, Happiness, Positivity

  "Selected Letters". Edited by Thomas H. Johnson,

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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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• World peace must develop from inner peace.

  Dalai Lama

  World, Human Compassion, Peaceful World

  "Yoga at the Pentagon With Tao Porchon-Lynch" by Dr. Terri Kennedy, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 28, 2012.

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• The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one's life.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Inspirational, Life, Simplicity

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.51, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• 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.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Heart, Relaxation, Having Patience

  "Letters to a Young Poet".

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• As long as we think our lives are not good enough (materially), we will not have happiness. As soon as we realize our lives are good enough, happiness immediately appears. That is the practice of contentment.

  Nhat Hanh

  Happiness, Thinking, Practice

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• There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means - either may do - the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Happiness, Being Happy, Mean

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• If you're looking for inner peace from the outside world, you're not going to get that. The inner peace starts with looking at you from the inside.

  Mary J. Blige

  World, Outside World, Ifs

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• Inner #‎ peace begins the moment you choose not to allow another person or event to control your #‎ emotions

  Pema Chodron

  Peace Of Mind, Events, Emotion

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• Inner peace can be reached only when we practice forgiveness. Forgiveness is letting go of the past, and is therefore the means for correcting our misperceptions.

  Gerald Jampolsky

  Inspirational, Forgiveness, Letting Go

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

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• No one can get inner peace by pouncing on it.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Success, Stress, Caring

  Harry Emerson Fosdick (1946). “On Being Fit to Live with: Sermons on Post-war Christianity”, New York ; London [Eng.] : Harper & Brothers

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• 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 that peace with neighboring communities.

  Dalai Lama

  Peace, Community, Society

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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?

  Peace Pilgrim

  Thinking, Umpires, Judging

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• To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life - bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Life, Giving, Way

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.95, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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