Inner Peace Quotes

Most popular inner peace quotes

God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing. - C. S. Lewis quote.
God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.

God happiness

Great tranquility of heart is his who cares for neither praise nor blame. - Thomas à Kempis quote.
Great tranquility of heart is his who cares for neither praise nor blame.

blame praise

My stroke of insight would be: peace is only a thought away, and all we have to do to access it is silence the voice of our dominating left mind. - Jill Bolte Taylor quote.
My stroke of insight would be: peace is only a thought away, and all we have to do to access it is silence the voice of our dominating left mind.
My stroke of insight is that at the core of my right hemisphere consciousness is a character that is directly connected to my feeling of deep inner peace. It is completely committed to the expression of peace, love, joy, and compassion in the world. - Jill Bolte Taylor quote.
My stroke of insight is that at the core of my right hemisphere consciousness is a character that is directly connected to my feeling of deep inner peace. It is completely committed to the expression of peace, love, joy, and compassion in the world.
Peace is an attribute in you. You cannot find it outside. Illness is some form of external searching. Health is inner peace. It enables you to remain unshaken by lack of love from without and capable, through your acceptance of miracles, of correcting the conditions proceeding from lack of love in others. - Helen Schucman quote.
Peace is an attribute in you. You cannot find it outside. Illness is some form of external searching. Health is inner peace. It enables you to remain unshaken by lack of love from without and capable, through your acceptance of miracles, of correcting the conditions proceeding from lack of love in others.
The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself. - Seneca quote.
The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
Inner freedom is not guided by our efforts; it comes from seeing what is true. - Gautama Buddha quote.
Inner freedom is not guided by our efforts; it comes from seeing what is true.
First keep the peace within yourself, then you can also bring peace to others. - Thomas à Kempis quote.
First keep the peace within yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.
When we do not find peace within ourselves, it is vain to seek for it elsewhere. - François de La Rochefoucauld quote.
When we do not find peace within ourselves, it is vain to seek for it elsewhere.
If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having. - Henry Miller quote.
If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having.

possessions

There is no joy like peace. - Gautama Buddha quote.
There is no joy like peace.
Avoid popularity if you would have peace. - Abraham Lincoln quote.
Avoid popularity if you would have peace.

celebrity

Until you make peace with who you are, you'll never be content with what you have.

contentment self-acceptance be yourself

If we are not happy, if we are not peaceful, we can't share peace and happiness with others, even those we love, those who live under the same roof. If we are peaceful, if we are happy, we can smile and blossom like a flower, and everyone in our family, our entire society, will benefit from our peace. - Thích Nhất Hạnh quote.
If we are not happy, if we are not peaceful, we can't share peace and happiness with others, even those we love, those who live under the same roof. If we are peaceful, if we are happy, we can smile and blossom like a flower, and everyone in our family, our entire society, will benefit from our peace.

buddhist happiness

All the political, social, and economic improvements, all the technical progress cannot have any regenerating significance, so long as our inner life remains as it is at present. The more the intelligence unveils and violates the secrets of Nature, the more the danger increases and the heart shrinks. - Nicholas Kazantzakis quote.
All the political, social, and economic improvements, all the technical progress cannot have any regenerating significance, so long as our inner life remains as it is at present. The more the intelligence unveils and violates the secrets of Nature, the more the danger increases and the heart shrinks.

nature

You know who you are inside, but people outside see something different.  You can choose to become the image, and let go of who you are, or continue as you are and feel phony when you play the image. - Richard Bach quote.
You know who you are inside, but people outside see something different.  You can choose to become the image, and let go of who you are, or continue as you are and feel phony when you play the image.

authenticity be yourself

Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be, because sooner or later, if you are posing, you will forget the pose, and then where are you? - Fanny Brice quote.
Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be, because sooner or later, if you are posing, you will forget the pose, and then where are you?

authenticity be yourself

To be nobody-but-yourself—in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else—means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting. - E. E. Cummings quote.
To be nobody-but-yourself—in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else—means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting.

authenticity individuality be yourself

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be.  This need we may call self-actualization. - Abraham Maslow quote.
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be.  This need we may call self-actualization.

authenticity be yourself

He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind. - Gautama Buddha quote.
He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.

envy

Resolve to be thyself; and know, that he
Who finds himself, loses his misery.

be yourself the self

My inner self was a house divided against itself. - Augustine of Hippo quote.
My inner self was a house divided against itself.

the self be yourself

Inner peace is beyond victory or defeat.
— Bhagavad Gita
In quietness and in confidence shall be your strength.
— The Bible—Isaiah 30:15

biblical

At the heart of happiness lies peace.  It is the last and the highest attainment of the soul.
You cannot find peace anywhere save in your own self....  When a man has made peace with himself, he will be able to make peace in the whole world. - Martin Buber quote.
You cannot find peace anywhere save in your own self....  When a man has made peace with himself, he will be able to make peace in the whole world.
Martin Buber The Way of Man: According to the Teaching of Hasidim
What all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and incur my own abhorrence. - Frederick Douglass quote.
I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and incur my own abhorrence.

be yourself

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.  Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles. - Ralph Waldo Emerson quote.
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.  Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Lord, make me an instrument of Your peace.
Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances. - Mahatma Gandhi quote.
Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.
Mahatma Gandhi The Moral and Political Writings of Mahatma Gandhi: Vol. I, Civilization, Politics, and Religion
There is an internal landscape, a geography of the soul; we search for its outlines all our lives.  Those who are lucky enough to find it ease like water over a stone, onto its fluid contours, and are home.

be yourself

Peace is such a precious jewel that I could give any thing for it but truth. - Matthew Henry quote.
Peace is such a precious jewel that I could give any thing for it but truth.
Matthew Henry Memoirs of the Life, Character, and Writings of the Rev. Matthew Henry
There is no such thing as perpetual tranquility of mind while we live here; because life itself is but motion and can never be without desire, nor without fear, no more than without sense. - Thomas Hobbes quote.
There is no such thing as perpetual tranquility of mind while we live here; because life itself is but motion and can never be without desire, nor without fear, no more than without sense.
When once their slumbering passions burn,
The peaceful are the strong! - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. quote.
When once their slumbering passions burn,
The peaceful are the strong!
I can have peace of mind only when I forgive rather than judge.
There is no such thing as inner peace.  There is only nervousness or death. - Fran Lebowitz quote.
There is no such thing as inner peace.  There is only nervousness or death.
What is dangerous about the tranquilizers is that whatever peace of mind they bring is a packaged peace of mind.  Where you buy a pill and buy peace with it, you get conditioned to cheap solutions instead of deep ones. - Max Lerner quote.
What is dangerous about the tranquilizers is that whatever peace of mind they bring is a packaged peace of mind.  Where you buy a pill and buy peace with it, you get conditioned to cheap solutions instead of deep ones.
If you don't have peace, it isn't because someone took it from you; you gave it away.  You cannot always control what happens to you, but you can control what happens in you. - John C. Maxwell quote.
If you don't have peace, it isn't because someone took it from you; you gave it away.  You cannot always control what happens to you, but you can control what happens in you.
John C. Maxwell Be a People Person: Effective Leadership Through Effective Relationships
If we are not happy, if we are not peaceful, we cannot share peace and happiness with others, even those we love, those who live under the same roof.
If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. - Thích Nhất Hạnh quote.
If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it.

smile

Lovely, lasting peace of mind!
Sweet delight of human-kind!
Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace. - Robert J. Sawyer quote.
Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace.
A mind at peace does not engender wars. - Sophocles quote.
A mind at peace does not engender wars.
Arrange whatever pieces come your way. - Virginia Woolf quote.
Arrange whatever pieces come your way.
Possession of material riches, without inner peace, is like dying of thirst while bathing in a lake. - Yogananda quote.
Possession of material riches, without inner peace, is like dying of thirst while bathing in a lake.
Yogananda The Essence of Self-Realization: The Wisdom of Paramhansa Yogananda

possessions

I think the message is that you don't need to go to anywhere else to find what you are seeking. - Ram Dass quote.
I think the message is that you don't need to go to anywhere else to find what you are seeking.
To break your identification with your own thoughts is to achieve inner freedom. - Ram Dass quote.
To break your identification with your own thoughts is to achieve inner freedom.
World peace can only be based on inner peace. If we ask what destroys our inner peace, it's not weapons and external threats, but our own inner flaws like anger. This is one of the reasons why love and compassion are important, because they strengthen us. This is a source of hope. - Dalai Lama XIV quote.
World peace can only be based on inner peace. If we ask what destroys our inner peace, it's not weapons and external threats, but our own inner flaws like anger. This is one of the reasons why love and compassion are important, because they strengthen us. This is a source of hope.

peace

Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind. - Gautama Buddha quote.
Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.

envy

Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without. - Gautama Buddha quote.
Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.
Complete peace equally reigns between two mental waves. - Sivananda Saraswati quote.
Complete peace equally reigns between two mental waves.
Every goal, every action, every thought, every feeling one experiences, whether it be consciously or unconsciously known, is an attempt to increase one's level of peace of mind.
Five great enemies to peace inhabit with us: avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride. If those enemies were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.
He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees. I believe in the religion of Islam. I believe in Allah and peace. - Muhammad Ali quote.
He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees. I believe in the religion of Islam. I believe in Allah and peace.
I take it that what all men are really after is some form of, perhaps only some formula of, peace.
Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing, peace is the measure. - Phyllis McGinley quote.
Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing, peace is the measure.
One does not need buildings, money, power, or status to practice the Art of Peace. Heaven is right where you are standing, and that is the place to train.
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 quote.
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.
Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves. - William Hazlitt quote.
Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.
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 quote.
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.
You cannot find peace by avoiding life. - Virginia Woolf quote.
You cannot find peace by avoiding life.
Peace is the most valuable commodity. And it's free!