Inner Peace Quotations

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?

Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind.

One must never look for happiness: one meets it by the way...

No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days.

Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get.

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?

One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.

Happiness is spiritual, born of truth and love. It is unselfish; therefore it cannot exist alone, but requires all mankind to share it.

The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy.

A happy woman is one who has no cares at all; a cheerful woman is one who has cares but doesn't let them get her down.

If anything interferes with my inner peace, I will walk away. Arguments with family members. All that stuff. None of it matters.

The secret of happiness is something to do.

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.

The task we must set for ourselves is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity.

Happiness in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past.

Happiness is a by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself.

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

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

The more refined one is, the more unhappy.

It's well known I'm a Scientologist, and that has helped me to find that inner peace in my life and it's something that has given me great stability and tools that I use.

When you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others. Inner peace is not found by staying on the surface of life, or by attempting to escape from life through any means. Inner peace is found by facing life squarely, solving its problems, and delving as far beneath its surface as possible to discover its verities and realities.

Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.

Some of us might find happiness if we quit struggling so desperately for it.

To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity.

The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.

A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.

Find inner peace? I looked; it wasn't there.

For me, success is inner peace. That's a good day for me.

We have to learn that service to the greater good is the greatest satisfaction. That idea is at the basis of all the great traditions dating back into history. When you get inside yourself - and you really find that deep inner peace that's rooted in love - then you can't live a life that we see being manifested in the large parts of the world right now.

Eternal Inner Peace has to be cultivated daily.

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

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.

When your sense of self is no longer tied to thought, is no longer conceptual, there is a depth of feeling, of sensing, of compassion, of loving, that was not there when you were trapped in mental concepts. You are that depth.

When your desire is to bring peace and harmony to the world, then you will have to start by finding peace and harmony within your own heart. It is a waste of time talking about peace. You have to seek and find that consciousness of peace which nothing and no one can disturb, and remain in it.

It is in that inner peace and stillness that things begin to happen, and it was in that peace and stillness that I began to hear God's voice.

The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

A few moments of inner peace and quiet allows the brain to reset itself. You become more centered as this happens, since the brain is clearing out distractions and too much "cross talk."

Inner peace: Don't leave home without it.

Write even when the world is chaotic. You don’t need a cigarette, silence, music, a comfortable chair, or inner peace to write. You just need ten minutes and a writing implement.

Running is about finding your inner peace, and so is a life well lived.

Happy is he to whom, in the maturer season of life, there remains one tried and constant friend...

The joy that isn't shared dies young.

Government cannot provide values to persons who have none, or who have lost those they had. It cannot provide inner peace. It can provide outlets for moral energies, but it cannot create those energies.

Soul Mountain, the story of one man’s quest for inner peace and freedom.

Spiritual energy brings compassion into the world.

No one can get inner peace by pouncing on it.--Harry Emerson FosdickNo one can get inner peace by pouncing on it.

No one can get inner peace by pouncing on it.

Go with the wind, you know, like a sailboat. I think that's really important when it comes to peace… inner peace especially. You can't help anyone else if you don't have it together for yourself.

All minds are joined. Therefore, all healing is self-healing. Our inner peace will, of itself, pass to others once we accept it for ourselves.

As long as we hold unforgivable thoughts in our mind, we will not be able to experience total inner peace.

Freedom is the real foundation of happiness.

When you produce peace and happiness in yourself, you begin to realize peace for the whole world. With the smile that you produce in yourself, with the conscious breathing you establish within yourself, you begin to work for peace in the world.

Real peace is not in power, money, or weapons, but in deep inner peace.

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. Understanding that everything that comes to you is what you are. Everything from friends to boyfriends to the job you get - it's all a direct reflection of what you are on the inside.

Constantly measuring ourselves against others sours and shortens our lives, robbing us of the very things we think it will bring: prosperity, love, inner peace, the knowledge that we’re good enough.

Nothing matters so much that we should throw ourselves into a state of panic about it. No happening is so important that we should let ourselves be exiled from from inner peace and mental calm for its sake.

The goal of the spiritual activist is to find inner peace even in externally chaotic circumstances.

There are clearly times when quieting down and bringing our energy back into ourselves is a step toward inner peace. Yet the most powerful life is not one in which we bring ourselves back to our center when we have spun away from it, but rather one in which we seek to live from that center at all times.

Enter any moment devoid of agenda, with an absence of posturing, and with your only intention being to send love to everyone you meet or even think of... Happiness, miracles and inner peace will follow.

In asking for miracles, we are seeking a practical goal: a return to inner peace. We’re not asking for something outside us to change, but for something inside us to change. We’re looking for a softer orientation to life.

Forgiveness is the key to inner peace because it is the mental technique by which our thoughts are transformed from fear to love.

Inner peace doesn't come from getting what we want, but from remembering who we are.

I gained an inner peace, the serenity of a prisoner, so to speak.

I have inner peace. It's a different person.

The true, or higher part of the self is always seeking the state that mystics talk about, the state in which we are filled with a universal love and a peaceful euphoria.

Always engage in the quest for life's meaning, which is inner peace.

Mankind is interdependent, and the happiness of each depends upon the happiness of all, and it is this lesson that humanity has to learn today as the first and the last lesson.

When you find inner peace, neither the presence nor absence of any person, place or thing, condition, circumstance, or situation can be the Creator of your state of mind or the cause of your experience of being.

True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one's self; but the point is not only to get out - you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand.

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

The gift of willingness is the only thing that stands between the quiet desperation of a disingenuous life and the actualization of unexpressed potential.

The quickest way to experiencing the peace inside, is to learn to recognize when I am not at peace.

I suffer because my interactions with others do not meet the expectations I did not know I had.

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

My heart forgives and releases. Inner peace is my goal.

As I forgive, I set myself free and experience the bliss of inner peace.

Philosophers should consider the fact that the greatest happiness principle can easily be made an excuse for a benevolent dictatorship. We should replace it by a more modest and more realistic principle - the principle that the fight against avoidable misery should be a recognized aim of public policy, while the increase of happiness should be left, in the main, to private initiative.

Self-understanding rather than self-condemnation is the way to inner peace and mature conscience.

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

Be honest with yourself. The world is not honest with you. The world loves hypocrisy. When you are honest with yourself you find the road to inner peace.

After you have found inner peace you have endless energy - the more you give, the more you receive. After you have found your calling, you work easily and joyously. You never get tired.

There was a time - when I attained inner peace - when I died, utterly died to myself. I have since renounced my previous identity. I can see not reason to dwell upon my past, it is dead and should not be resurrected. Don't inquire of me - ask me about my message. It is not important to remember the messenger, just remember the message.

My mission is to help promote peace by helping others to find inner peace. If I can find it, you can too. Peace is an idea whose time has come.

The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace.

When you do something for world peace, peace among groups, peace among individuals, or your own inner peace, you improve the total peace picture.

To the world I may seem very poor, walking penniless and wearing or carrying in my pockets my only material possessions, but I am really very rich in blessings which no amount of money could buy - health and happiness and inner peace.

The motive, if you are to find inner peace, must be an outgoing motive. Service, of course-service. Giving, not getting. Your motive must be good if your work is to have good effect. The secret of life is being of service.

Inner peace is found by facing life squarely, solving its problems, and delving as far beneath its surface as possible to discover its verities and realities.

What I walk on is not the energy of youth, it is a better energy. I walk on the endless energy of inner peace that never runs out! When you become a channel through which God works there are no more limitations, because God does the work through you: you are the instrument - and what God can do is unlimited. When you are working for God you do not find yourself striving and straining. You find yourself calm, serene and unhurried.

The sanctuary of peace dwells within. Seek it out and all things will be added to you. We're coming closer and closer to the time when enough of us will have found inner peace to affect our institutions for the better. And as soon as this happens the institutions will in turn, through example, affect for the better those who are still immature.

We limit ourselves by thinking things can't be done. Many think peace in the world is impossible - many think that inner peace cannot be attained. It is the one who doesn't know it can't be done who does it!

Collective problems must be solved by all of us, collectively, and no one finds inner peace who avoids doing his or her share in the solving of collective problems.

My inner peace remains in spite of any outward thing. Only insofar as I remain in harmony can I draw others into harmony, and so much more harmony is needed before the world can find peace.

We must walk according to the highest light we have, encountering lovingly those who are out of harmony, and trying to inspire them toward a better way. Whenever you bring harmony into any unpeaceful situation, you contribute to the cause of peace. When you do something for world peace, peace among groups, peace among individuals, or your own inner peace, you improve the total peace picture.

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

The peace that we are looking for is not peace that crumbles as soon as there is difficulty or chaos. Whether we’re seeking inner peace or global peace or a combination of the two, the way to experience it is to build on the foundation of unconditional openness to all that arises. Peace isn’t an experience free of challenges, free of rough and smooth, it’s an experience that’s expansive enough to include all that arises without feeling threatened.

The only test of a soul's salvation is its inward happiness.

There's harmony and inner peace to be found in following a moral compass that points in the same direction regardless of fashion or trend.

Inner peace comes only as we maintain the integrity of truth in all aspects of our lives.

Judging others blocks me from inner peace