Inner Peace Quotes - Page 19

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

  Isabelle Eberhardt

  Happiness, Looks, Way

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• 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.

  Karl Popper

  Happiness, Fighting, Principles

  Karl Popper (2014). “Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge”, p.465, Routledge

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• The key to happiness is to get the spirit and keep it.

  Marion G. Romney

  Happiness, Keys, Spirit

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• 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.

  Richard Bode

  Wealth, Moments, Finding Peace

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• Our soul lives in Peace and lives for Peace. If we live a life of peace, we are ever enriched and never impoverished. Unhorizoned is our inner peace; like the boundless sky, it encompasses all.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Peace, Sky, Soul

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

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• Successful living does not mean accumulating material things, it means inner peace of mind; it means that gift of being able to adjust oneself to everyone else; it also means that all your needs for daily living will be taken care of by God.

  Albert E Cliffe

  Life, Taken, Mean

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• The practice of patience guards us against losing our presence of mind. It enables us to remain undisturbed, even when the situation is really difficult. It gives us a certain amount of inner peace, which allows us some self-control, so that we can choose to respond to situations in an appropriate and compassionate manner, rather than being driven by our disturbing emotions.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Patience, Buddhist

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• We need to take action to develop compassion, to create inner peace within ourselves and to share that inner peace with our family and friends. Peace and warm-heartednes s can then spread through the community just as ripples radiate out across the water when you drop a pebble into a pond

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Change, Family

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• Go for the sense of inner joy, of inner peace, of inner vision first and then all the other things from the outside appear.

  Marci Shimoff

  Joy, Vision, Firsts

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• The most important benefit of patience consists in the way it acts as a powerful antidote to the affliction of anger - the greatest threat to our inner peace, and therefore our happiness. The mind, or spirit, is not physical, it cannot be touched or harmed directly. Only negative thoughts and emotions can harm it. Therefore, only the corresponding positive quality can protect it.

  Dalai Lama

  Happy, Patience, Powerful

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• Great changes start with individuals; the basis of world peace is inner peace in the hearts of individuals.

  Dalai Lama

  Heart, World, Individual

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• By developing a sense of concern for others' well-being, then no matter what others' attitudes are, you can keep inner peace.

  Dalai Lama

  Attitude, Concern For Others, Matter

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• True happiness comes from having a sense of inner peace and contentment, which in turn must be achieved by cultivating altruism, love and compassion, and by eliminating anger, selfishness and greed.

  Dalai Lama

  Happy, Compassion, Greed

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• As a well cut diamond has many facets, each reflecting a different color of light, so does the word yoga, each facet reflecting a different shade of meaning and revealing different aspects of the entire range of human endeavor to win inner peace and happiness.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Yoga, Cutting, Winning

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• Watch yourself with all diligence, lest the enemy steals near and robs you, depriving you of this great treasure, which is inner peace and stillness of soul. The enemy strives to destroy the peace of the soul, because he knows that when the soul is in turmoil it is more easily led to evil. But you must guard your peace.

  Lorenzo Scupoli

  Christian, Evil, Soul

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

  Denzel Washington

  Good Day

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• 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

  Yoga, Technique, Helping

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• Do you want my one-word secret of happiness? It's growth - - mental, financial you name it.

  Harold Geneen

  Happiness, Names, Secret

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• Be patient. Your skin took a while to deteriorate. Give it some time to reflect a calmer inner state. As one of my friends states on his Facebook profile: "The true Losers in Life, are not those who Try and Fail, but those who Fail to Try."

  Jess C Scott

  Giving, Skins, Trying

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• I often find that people confuse inner peace with some sense of insensibility whenever something goes wrong. In such cases inner peace is a permit for destruction: The unyielding optimist will pretend that the forest is not burning either because he is too lazy or too afraid to go and put the fire out.

  Criss Jami

  Fear, Fire, People

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.57, Criss Jami

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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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