Quotes on Inner Peace

Untrained warriors are soon killed on the battlefield; so also persons untrained in the art of preserving their inner peace are quickly riddled by the bullets of worry and restlessness in active life.

We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.

No price is too great to pay for inner peace. Peace is the harmonious control of life. It is vibrant with life-energy. It is a power that easily transcends all our worldly knowledge. Yet it is not separate from our earthly existence. If we open the right avenues within, this peace can be felt here and now.

Something wonderful begins to happen with the simple realization that life, like an automobile, is driven from the inside out, not the other way around. As you focus more on becoming more peaceful with where you are, rather than focusing on where you would rather be, you begin to find peace right now, in the present. Then, as you move around, try new things, and meet new people, you carry that sense of inner peace with you. It's absolutely true that, "Wherever you go, there you are.

It's never too late to have a happy childhood.

Nobody can hurt me without my permission.

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.

The joy that isn't shared dies young.

The journey to happiness involves finding the courage to go down into ourselves and take responsibility for what's there: all of it.

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.

Try to realize it's all within yourself no one else can make you change, and to see you're only very small and life flows on within you and without you.

Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.

The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy.

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

There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.

Too much of a self-centered attitude creates mistrust and suspicion in others, which can in turn lead to fear. But if you have more of an open mind, and you cultivate a sense of concern for others' well-being, then, no matter what others' attitudes are, you can keep your inner peace.

World peace must develop from inner peace.

Peace isn't the mere absence of violence; peace must come from inner peace. And inner peace comes from taking others’ interests into account.

But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.

Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil - or else an absolute ignorance.

Genuine peace is based on inner peace, because you cannot build peace on the basis of anger