Peace Of Mind Quotes - Page 9

• If one regards life and death as natural processes, the metaphysical dread vanishes, and one obtains peace of mind.

  Peter Wessel Zapffe

  Life And Death, Mind, Natural

  "To Be a Human Being". Documentary, 1990.

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• Beneath the hush a whisper from long ago, promising peace of mind and a burden shared. No peace which is not peace for all, no rest until all has been fulfilled.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Long Ago, Mind, Burden

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• I envy you your peace of mind, your clean conscience, your unpolluted memory. Little girl, a memory without blot of contamination must be an exquisite treasure-an inexhaustible source of pure refreshment: is it not?

  Charlotte Bronte

  Girl, Memories, Envy

  Charlotte Bronte (2013). “Jane Eyre”, p.173, Simon and Schuster

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• Every true faith is infallible. It performs what the believing person hopes to find in it. But it does not offer the least support for the establishing of an objective truth. Here the ways of men divide. If you want to achieve peace of mind and happiness, have faith. If you want to be a disciple of truth, then search.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Believe, Men, Support

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Christopher Middleton (1996). “Selected Letters of Friedrich Nietzsche”, p.7, Hackett Publishing

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• If a person measures his spiritual fulfillment in terms of cosmic visions, surpassing peace of mind, or ecstasy, then he is not likely to know much spiritual fulfillment. If, however, he measures it in terms of enjoying a sunrise, being warmed by a child's smile, or being able to help someone have a better day, then he is likely to know much spiritual fulfillment.

  Arthur Miller

  Spiritual, Children, Mind

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• if a person wishes to achieve peace of mind and happiness then they should acquire faith, but if they want to be a disciple of truth, which can be "frightening and ugly,” then they need to search.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Mind, Wish, Needs

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• All those who love Nature she loves in return, and will richly reward, not perhaps with the good things, as they are commonly called, but with the best things of this world-not with money and titles, horses and carriages, but with bright and happy thoughts, contentment and peace of mind.

  John Lubbock

  Horse, Mind, Contentment

  Sir John Lubbock (1904). “The beauties of nature and the wonders of the world we live in”

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• Freedom! To fill people's mailboxes, eyes, ears and brains with commercial rubbish against their will, television programs that are impossible to watch with a sense of coherence. Freedom! To force information on people, taking no account of their right not to accept it or their right of peace of mind. Freedom! To spit in the eyes and souls of passersby with advertisements.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Eye, Mind Freedom, People

  "The Exile Returns" by David Remnick, www.newyorker.com. February 14, 1994.

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• I love you, too." But this hopeful farewell does little to bring peace of mind, even now. Loving you has never been the problem. What's troubling me is how loving you may never be enough.

  Megan McCafferty

  Farewell, Love You, Hopeful

  Megan McCafferty (2007). “Fourth Comings: A Jessica Darling Novel”, p.47, Broadway Books

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• This pause in time, within time ... When did I first experience the exquisite sense of surrender that is only possible with another person? The peace of mind one experiences on one's own, one's certainty of self in the serenity of solitude, are nothing in comparison to the release and openness and fluency one shares with another, in close companionship.

  Muriel Barbery

  Self, Serenity, Solitude

  "The Elegance of the Hedgehog". Book by Muriel Barbery, September, 2008.

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• One of the problems we have is that we cannot just be content to admire and enjoy, we have to possess and feel we own what we see. That can become for many of us an addiction which adds a complication to our life and takes away our peace of mind. Craving things becomes after a while a serious distraction and an obsession.

  Joseph Girzone

  Addiction, Mind, Serious

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• The mind is key. If anything should be considered a god, so to speak, it is the mind, not money. A healthy positive mind is the utmost priority. But if we were to reverse the order of these priorities, what would happen? I find it hard to imagine how a person with great wealth, bad health, no friends, and no peace of mind could feel even slightly happy.

  Dalai Lama

  Friends, Keys, Order

  Dalai Lama, Anne Benson, Fabien Ouaki (2016). “Imagine All the People: A Conversation with the Dalai Lama on Money, Politics, and Life As It Could Be”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

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• Honesty pays dividends both in dollars and in peace of mind.

  B. C. Forbes

  Inspirational, Honesty, Mind

  B. C. Forbes (2005). “Keys to Success”, p.63, Lulu.com

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• Success is not just money in the bank but a contented heart and peace of mind.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Success, Heart, Mind

  Sarah Ban Breathnach (2008). “Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort of Joy”, p.301, Hachette UK

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• The practices of Yoga will help you maintain equanimity in all situations by teaching you to become transparent, able to allow both joy and sorrow to flow through you without destroying your peace of mind.

  Sharon Gannon

  Yoga, Teaching, Practice

  Sharon Gannon, David Life (2002). “Jivamukti Yoga: Practices for Liberating Body and Soul”, Random House LLC

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• Happiness is the peace of mind that comes from feeling that I am living a worthy life in the company of people I love and in the service of something bigger than myself.

  Michael Josephson

  People, Feelings, Mind

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• The Internet and my web site have grown to become essential components of my business. The expertise and support that LuxSci continually delivers is crucial to maintaining the worldwide contact I need to succeed. LuxSci provides peace of mind!

  Brian Skerry

  Support, Mind, Maintaining

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• All historical writing, even the most honest, is unconsciously subjective, since every age is bound, in spite of itself, to make the dead perform whatever tricks it finds necessary for its own peace of mind.

  Carl L. Becker

  Writing, Historical, Mind

  "The Heavenly City of the Eighteenth-Century Philosophers". Book by Carl L. Becker (Chapter II, pp. 43-44), 1932.

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• If that type of bad God did exist, then we could go on living in good health. If we could push the responsibility for our misery onto God, then we would have that much more peace of mind, wouldn't we?

  Tatsuhiko Takimoto

  Responsibility, Mind, Goes On

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• Love and peace of mind do protect us. They allow us to overcome the problems that life hands us. They teach us to survive... to live now... to have the courage to confront each day.

  Bernie Siegel

  Courage, Hands, Mind

  Bernie Siegel (2016). “Peace, Love And Healing”, p.8, Random House

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• Cultivate peace of mind which does not separate one's self from one's surroundings. When that is done successfully, then everything else follows naturally.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Self, Inner Peace, Mind

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• We're worn into grooves by Time - by our habits. In the end, these grooves are going to show whether we've been second-rate or champions, each in his way, in dispatching the affairs of every day. By choosing our habits, we determine the grooves into which Time will wear us; and these are grooves that enrich our lives and make for ease of mind, peace, happiness - achievement.

  Frank Bunker Gilbreth, Sr.

  Life, Peace, Achievement

  American Magazine, Vol. 103, (p. 183), 1927.

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• Charity is the pure love of Christ. Let's bring it down for us lay folk to understand. Selflessness, patience. . . . a great definition. . . Charity: The ability to love the sinner and hate the sin. Note: For Hyrum Smith's other ideas which he regards as pertinent to Success, see Topics: Character, Charity, Goals, Humility, Peace of Mind, Sacrifice, Success-Change-Personal Growth, Success-Change-Constructive Imagination, Wisdom

  Hyrum W. Smith

  Love, Hate, Character

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• The happiness of the world is transitory. The less you become attached to the world, the more you enjoy peace of mind.

  Sarada Devi

  Mind, World, Enjoy

  Sarada Devi (1984). “The Gospel of the Holy Mother Sri Sarada Devi”

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• Peace of mind is another way of saying that you've learned how to love, that you have come to appreciate the importance of giving love in order to be worthy of receiving it.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Love, Order, Appreciate

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