Quotes About Inner Peace

“Forgiveness is a choice you can make to free yourself from the shackles of your past, from pain, hurt and resentment. Forgiveness is your road to inner freedom. It does not mean that you need to forget, deny or condone what has transpired. You choose to forgive because forgiveness is the only way to transcend painful experiences and to attain inner peace and freedom. Transcending Abuse & Betrayal.”

— Sasha Samy

“God, teach me to be patient, teach me to go slow,
Teach me how to wait on You when my way I do not know.
Teach me sweet forbearance when things do not go right
So I remain unruffled when others grow uptight.
Teach me how to quiet my racing, rising heart
So I might hear the answer You are trying to impart.
Teach me to let go, dear God, and pray undisturbed until
My heart is filled with inner peace and I learn to know your will.”

— Helen Steiner Rice

“Be content, Be grateful, Be loving, Be happy, and this lifestyle will not only change YOUR life, it will change OUR world. I finally grasped the true meaning of let go- let God. (An excerpt from Finding Inner Peace)”

— Alice Hocker

“Joy breathes from within,
It is not in things but a sense of well-being,
an inner peace in harmony with our soul.
True joy in our life gives us more energy.
Live joyfully!
There are elements in the society and of this world that disrupt such inner joy, peace and harmony within our soul and how we may feel and carry this depends on our individual coping mechanism.”

— Angelica Hopes

“I get those fleeting, beautiful moments of inner peace and stillness - and then the other 23 hours and 45 minutes of the day, I'm a human trying to make it through in this world.”

— Ellen DeGeneres

“The study of the art of motorcycle maintenance is really a miniature study of the art of rationality itself. Working on a motorcycle, working well, caring, is to become part of a process, to achieve an inner peace of mind. The motorcycle is primarily a mental phenomenon.”

— Robert M. Pirsig

“While Maddox now believed the demon did not want to hurt Ashlyn, he wasn't willing to take a chance. He would talk about flowers and moonbeams - he cringed - if it meant maintaining this delectable inner peace.
"Is there a way to break your death-curse?" Ashlyn asked. So much for flowers and moon-beams.”

— Gena Showalter

“Some people manage to perfect the disappearing act well into adulthood. I went out with a girl once, years ago, who would disappear whenever there was conflict. Anytime there was tension she'd just go missing, and when I'd run into her again, or when I'd go over to her house to see what was going on, she'd be all chipper and act like everything was fine. Finally, one night when she was able to be vulnerable, she explained whenever she felt like she'd messed up she could close off that part of her mind and feel an inner peace that was completely disconnected from reality. She drove everybody else crazy because she couldn't resolve conflict, yet inside the false world of her mind everything was calm.”

— Donald Miller

“Just because life is full of craziness doesn't mean you must go crazy. You can experience outer chaos and still find inner peace. Nothing even needs to change outside of you for you to find calm inside of you. This inner calm is available at all times. Just breathe.”

— Karen Salmansohn

“Success isn't measured by money or power or social rank. Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace.”

— Mike Ditka

“And if the child feels loved, the body is relaxed, the eyes are bright, there is a smile on the face; in some way the flesh becomes "transparent." A child that is loved is beautiful. But what happens when children feel they are not loved? There is tension, fear, loneliness and terrible anguish, which we can call "inner pain," the opposite of "inner peace." Children are too small and weak to be able to fend for themselves; they have no defense mechanisms. If a child feels unloved and unwanted, he or she will develop a broken self-image. I have never heard any of the men or women whom we have welcomed into our community criticize their parents, even though many of them have suffered a great deal from rejection or abandonment in their families. Rather than blaming their parents, they blame themselves. "If I am not loved, it is because I am not lovable, I am no good. I am evil.”

— Jean Vanier

“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.”

— Tom Cruise

“A healthy mind observes and questions itself. This is the path to inner peace and happiness. Don't believe everything you think.”

— Vironika Tugaleva

“My faith helps me understand that circumstances don't dictate my happiness, my inner peace.”

— Denzel Washington

“You have to be the right type for calm waters. For some, dead calm is inner peace, for others it's the doldrums.”

— Daniel Glattauer

“When we make a decision to honour our inner peace and allow it to blossom, we feel drawn to create peace in our external environment.”

— Christopher Dines

“You do indeed have a past, but not now! And, yes, you have a future, but not now! You can consume your now with thoughts of 'then' and 'maybe,' but that will keep you from the inner peace you could experience.”

— Wayne Dyer

“I am certain that a quiet mind is the foundation of inner peace. And inner peace translates into outer peace.”

— Richard Carlson

“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.”

— Daniel Patrick Moynihan

“For the first time, he considered that utter indifference might inspire not inner peace but a limitless capacity for evil.”

— Dean Koontz

“You hear all this stuff about inner peace. Hey, there's nothing wrong with it, but I say, hit that line hard. Crack that book - Do your very best all the time and inner peace will take care of itself. The Deacon guarantees it.”

— Deacon Jones

“Use your bad moments to discover what makes you tremble. Use your good moments to find your road to inner peace.”

— Paulo Coelho

“Those who have little interest in spirituality shouldn't think that human inner values don't apply to you. The inner peace of an alert and calm mind are the source of real happiness and good health. Our human intelligence tells us which of our emotions are positive and helpful and which are damaging and to be restrained or avoided. - 12/7/2012 on his Facebook page”

— Dalai Lama XIV

“Happiness is a combination of inner peace, economic viability, and above all, world peace.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

“It is not by accident that the happiest people are those who make a conscious effort to live useful lives. Their happiness, of course, is not a shallow exhilaration where life is one continuos intoxicating party. Rather, their happiness is a deep sense of inner peace that comes when they believe their lives have meaning and that they are making a difference for good in the world.”

— Ernest A. Fitzgerald

“Working in the garden gives me something beyond the enjoyment of the senses. It gives me a profound feeling of inner peace.”

— Ruth Stout

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

— Gerald Jampolsky

“When we understand clearly that inner peace is the real source of happiness, and how, through spiritual practice, we can experience progressively deeper levels of inner peace, we will develop tremendous enthusiasm to practice”

— Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

“Trials may come - and we may not understand everything that happens to us or around us. But if we humbly, quietly trust in the Lord, He will give us guidance and strength in every challenge we face. When our only desire is to please Him, we will be blessed with a deep inner peace.”

— Bruce D. Porter

“Desire is the root of selfishness; clear your heart of desire and be selfless. Selflessness is the key to inner peace.”

— Christofer Drew

“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.”

— Cory Doctorow

“Inner peace: Don't leave home without it.”

— Alan Cohen

“The voice in your head is like a wild horse taking you wherever it wants to go ... When the voice in your head finally stops talking, you experience inner peace.”

— Miguel Angel Ruiz

“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.”

— Eileen Caddy

“Yoga takes you close to your true nature. Yoga with its techniques helps you to harmonize with nature. Peace is our very nature, and yoga leads you to inner peace”

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

“Inner peace begins when we stop saying of things, 'I have lost it' and instead say, 'It has been returned to where it came from.' Why should it be any concern of yours who gives your things back to the world that gave them to you? The important thing is to take great care with what you have while the world lets you have it.”

— Epictetus

“You must master your time rather than becoming a slave to the constant flow of events and demands on your time. And you must organize your life to achieve balance, harmony, and inner peace.”

— Brian Tracy

“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!”

— Peace Pilgrim

“I am never lonely or discouraged or tired. When you live in constant communion with God, you cannot be lonely. When you perceive the working of God's wonderful plan and know that all good effort bears good fruit, you cannot be discouraged. When you have found inner peace, you are in contact with the source of universal energy and cannot be tired.”

— Peace Pilgrim

“People have found inner peace by losing themselves in a cause larger than themselves. Finding inner peace means coming from the self-centered life into the life centered.”

— Peace Pilgrim

“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.”

— Peace Pilgrim

“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.”

— Peace Pilgrim

“Material development alone does not yield genuine inner peace.”

— Dalai Lama

“If we have a positive mental attitude, then even when surrounded by hostility, we shall not lack inner peace.”

— Dalai Lama

“As human beings we all want to be happy and free from misery.
We have learned that the key to happiness is inner peace.
The greatest obstacles to inner peace are disturbing emotions such as
anger and attachment, fear and suspicion,
while love and compassion, a sense of universal responsibility
are the sources of peace and happiness.”

— Dalai Lama

“The way to develop inner peace through meditation begins with the recognition that the destroyer of inner peace is not some external foe, but is within us. Therefore, the solution is within us too. However, that inner change does not take place immediately in the way that we switch on a light, but takes weeks, months and years.”

— Dalai Lama

“The key point is kindness. With kindness one will have inner peace. Through inner peace, world peace can one day be a reality.”

— Dalai Lama

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

— Marianne Williamson

“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.”

— Marianne Williamson

“If you scramble about in search of inner peace, you will lose your inner peace.”

— Laozi