Inner Peace Quotes - Page 18

• Listening reminds me how precious it is to be here at all. And so, listening is the first step to peace, both inner peace and the compassion that connects people.

  Mark Nepo

  Compassion, People, Listening

  Mark Nepo (2012). “Seven Thousand Ways to Listen: Staying Close to What Is Sacred”, p.287, Simon and Schuster

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• Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.

  Bertrand Russell

  Change, Happiness, Happy

  Bertrand Russell, John G. Slater, Peter Köllner (1997). “Last Philosophical Testament: 1943-68”, p.395, Psychology Press

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• Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.

  Marquis de Sade

  Happiness, Lying, Organization

  marquis de Sade (1988). “Juliette”, Grove Press

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• The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.

  Carl Sandburg

  Happiness, Being Happy, Secret

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• It's not the tragedies that kill us; it's the messes.

  Dorothy Parker

  Peace, Tragedy, Mess

  Dorothy Parker (2004). “Dorothy Parker in Her Own Words”, Taylor Trade Publishing

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• No man is happy who does not think himself so.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Inspirational, Happiness, Success

  "The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave". Book by Darius Lyman. Maxim 584, 1856.

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• The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

  Deepak Chopra

  Happiness, Happy, Purpose

  Deepak Chopra (1985). “Creating health: the psychophysiological connection”

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• 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.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Energy, Pay, Here And Now

  Sri Chinmoy (2003). “Wisdom of Sri Chinmoy”, p.208, Motilal Banarsidass Publ.

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• It almost seems as though this roiling world is conspiring to test our patience at every turn. In fact, it is. With this in mind, we would be wise to look on our imperfect environment as a teacher rather than an antagonist. It constantly shows us that we need to be patient on an ongoing basis, not just every now and then, if we´re going to realize true inner peace, happiness, and fulfillment.

  Surya Das

  Wise, Patience, Teacher

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• We are never more discontented with others than when we are discontented with ourselves.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Relationship, Peace, Psychics

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• To live we must conquer incessantly, we must have the courage to be happy.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Happiness, Courage, Conquer

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• A man who experiences no genuine satisfaction in life does not want peace. Men court war to escape meaninglessness and boredom, to be relieved of fear and frustration.

  Nels Fredrick Solomon Ferre

  War, Frustration, Men

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• A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.

  Joseph Addison

  Blessed, Blessing, Men

  Joseph Addison, Richard Steele (1855). “The Spectator”, p.300

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

  Bernard Meltzer

  Happiness, Success, Want

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

  William Butler Yeats

  Inspirational, Happiness, Happy

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• Everything we do is infused with the energy with which we do it. If we're frantic, life will be frantic. If we're peaceful, life will be peaceful. And so our goal in any situation becomes inner peace.

  Marianne Williamson

  Love, Inspirational, Forgiveness

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• 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.

  Henry James

  Happiness, Self, Collaboration

  Henry James (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry James (Illustrated)”, p.159, Delphi Classics

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• 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

  Hurt, Flower, Moon

  Gena Showalter (2016). “The Darkest Night”, p.158, HQN Books

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• It doesn’t matter how many years go by, how much therapy I embark on, how much I try to achieve that elusive thing known as perspective, which is supposed to put all past wrongs into their rightful and diminished place, that happy place where all the talk is of lessons learned and inner peace. No one will ever understand the potency of my memories, which are so solid and vivid that I don’t need a psychiatrist to tell me they are driving me crazy. My subconscious has not buried them, my superego has not restrained them. They are front and center, they are going on right now.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Memories, Crazy, Past

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.81, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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.

  Eileen Caddy

  Heart, Talking, Desire

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• Self-inquiry is the process and the goal also. 'I am' is the goal and the final reality. To hold to it with effort is self-inquiry. When spontaneous and natural it is realization.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Reality, Self, Goal

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• Where there is no love, pour love in, and you will draw love out.

  John of the Cross

  Love, Draws, No Love

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

  Richard Rohr

  Happiness, Responsibility, Journey

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• If you pursue happiness you never find it.

  C.P. Snow

  Happiness, Pursue, Ifs

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

  Jim McDonald

  Fear, Quiet, Desperation

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