Inner Peace Quotes - Page 5

In order to lead a meaningful life, you need to cherish others, pay attention to human values and try to cultivate inner peace.

True inward quietness ... is not vacancy, but stability - the steadfastness of a single purpose.

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

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

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.

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

This inner peace of mind occurs on three levels of understanding. Physical quietness seems the easiest to achieve, although there are levels and levels of this too, as attested by the ability of Hindu mystics to live buried alive for many days. Mental quietness, in which one has no wandering thoughts at all, seems more difficult, but can be achieved. But value quietness, in which one has no wandering desires at all but simply performs the acts of his life without desire, that seems the hardest.

I learned that the interior of life was as rewarding as the exterior of life, and that my richest moments occurred when I was absolutely still.

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.

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. For me this began with a discovery of the meaninglessness of possessions beyond my actual and immediate needs. As soon as I had brought myself down to need level, I began to feel a wonderful harmony in my life between inner and outer well-being, between spiritual and material well-being.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Peace is not achieved by controlling nations, but mastering our thoughts.

Do you always want to be right or do you want to be happy?

Heaven is to be at peace with things.

We are never so happy, nor so unhappy, as we suppose ourselves to be.

Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.

Compassion is a mental quality that can bring us true lasting inner peace and inner strength.

World peace begins with inner peace.

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

Happiness presents itself to man, wearing the crown of sorrow on its head. He who welcomes it must also welcome sorrow.

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.