Inner Peace Quotes - Page 6

• If frugality were established in the state, and if our expenses were laid out to meet needs rather than superfluities of life, there might be fewer wants, and even fewer pleasures, but infinitely more happiness.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Life, Happiness, Needs

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• If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her own nose all the time.

  Josh Billings

  Funny, Happiness, Happy

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• Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.

  Hermann Hesse

  Happiness, Being Happy, You Make Me Happy

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• Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.

  Theodore Isaac Rubin

  Happiness, Uplifting, Funny Inspirational

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

  Dalai Lama

  Attitude, Ifs, Hostility

  "5 Ways to Peace for Control Freaks" by Kathryn Remati, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 20, 2015.

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• Praise & esteem can feel good, which is fine, but don't look to them for inner peace & lasting happiness.

  Allan Lokos

  Lasting Happiness, Meditation, Feel Good

  Allan Lokos (2012). “Patience: The Art of Peaceful Living”, p.144, Penguin

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• The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.

  Bertrand Russell

  Inspirational, Happiness, Secret

  Bertrand Russell (2015). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.90, Lulu Press, Inc

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• The man who has no inner-life is a slave to his surroundings.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Attitude, Positive Thinking, Men

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

  Sam Levenson

  Happiness, Happy, Pursue

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• To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity.

  Samuel Johnson

  Happiness, Trying, Conquer

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1837). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius /c by Arthur Murphy, Esq”, p.343

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• 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

  Goal, Miracle, Asking

  Marianne Williamson (1992). “A return to love: reflections on the principles of "A course in miracles"”

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• If we have no inner peace, we deceive ourselves into thinking that comfort and prosperity will bring happiness.

  Dalai Lama

  Happiness, Thinking, Comfort

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• 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

  Light, Years, Meditation

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• 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.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Art, Inspiration, Warrior

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• It's a waste to chase the pipe dream of a magical tiny theory that allows us to make quick and detailed calculations about the future. We can't predict and we can't control. To accept this can be a source of liberation and inner peace. We're part of the unfolding world, surfing the chaotic waves.

  Rudy Rucker

  Dream, Surfing, World

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• If there is peace in your mind you will find peace with everybody. If your mind is agitated you will find agitation everywhere. So first find peace within and you will see this inner peace reflected everywhere else. You are this peace!

  H. W. L. Poonja

  Negativity, Mind, Agitation

  H. W. L. Poonja, Prashanti De Jager (2000). “The Truth Is”, p.188, Weiser Books

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• Most pointedly, nature-based people manifest the very qualities that contemporary psychotherapy, the recovery movement, and spiritual practices continually aim for: a visible sense of inner peace, unselfconscious humility, an urge to communal cooperation, and heartfelt appreciation for the world around them.

  Chellis Glendinning

  Spiritual, Appreciation, Recovery

  Chellis Glendinning (2007). “My Name Is Chellis and I'm in Recovery from Western Civilization”

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• Happiness... is not a destination: it is a manner of traveling. Happiness is not an end in itself. It is a by-product of working, playing, loving and living.

  Haim Ginott

  Happiness, Ends, Destination

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• If you have peace of mind, when you meet with problems and difficulties they won’t disturb your inner peace. You’ll be able to employ your human intelligence more effectively. But, if your mental state is disturbed, full of emotion, it is very difficult to cope with problems, because the mind that is full of emotion is biased, unable to see reality. So whatever you do will be unrealistic and naturally fail.

  Dalai Lama

  Reality, Mind, Able

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• What makes people happy is activity; changing evil itself into good by power, working in a God like manner.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Happiness, People, Evil

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

  Graham Greene

  Happiness, Ignorance, Men

  Graham Greene (1960). “The Heart of The Matter”

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• 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

  Running, Finding Yourself, Energy

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• Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.

  Douglas William Jerrold

  Happiness, Happy, Gratitude

  Douglas William Jerrold, Blanchard Jerrold (1859). “Specimens of Douglas Jerrold's wit: together with selections, chiefly from his contributions to journals, intended to illustrate his opinions”, p.168

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• Enter any moment devoid of agenda, with an absence of posturing, and with your only intention being to send love to everyone you meet or even think of...
  Happiness, miracles and inner peace will follow.

  Marianne Williamson

  Thinking, Miracle, Agendas

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Nov 30, 2014

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• You can become a night watchman and live happily. It is what you are inwardly that matters. Your inner peace and joy you have to earn. It is much more difficult than earning money. No university can teach you to be yourself.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Being Yourself, Night, Joy

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