Peacefulness Quotes

• Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Love, Life, Peace

  "Kulturphilosophie". Book by Albert Schweitzer, 1923.

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• We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.

  Dalai Lama

  Motivational, Spiritual, Peace

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• Peacefulness is an inner sense of calm - it comes from becoming still - in order to reflect and meditate on our inner wisdom and receive answers. A peaceful heart is one that is free from worry and rouble. It's becoming quiet so we can look at things quietly so we can more clearly understand them and thus come up with creative solutions. It is learning to live in the present. Freedom from desire leads to inner peace.

  Laozi

  Heart, Order, Worry

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  When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Inspirational, Single, Peace

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• If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.

  Mother Teresa

  Motivational, Family, Mother

  Mother Teresa (2010). “Where There Is Love, There Is God: A Path to Closer Union with God and Greater Love for Others”, p.329, Image

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• If you want to really know higher dimensions of life, there needs to be a constant sense of peacefulness and joyfulness within you

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Life, Dimensions, Needs

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• The way of peace is the way of truth. Truthfulness is even more important than peacefulness.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Truth, Important, Way

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.158, Rajpal & Sons

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• Talk peaceful to be peaceful.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Inspirational, Peace, Peaceful

  Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (2003). “The Power of Positive Thinking: 10 Traits for Maximum Results”, p.38, Simon and Schuster

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• Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Peace, War, Mean

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “A Time to Break Silence: The Essential Works of Martin Luther King, Jr., for Students”, p.67, Beacon Press

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• The first stage of this tranquility consists in silencing the lips when the heart is excited. The second, in silencing the mind when the soul is still excited. The goal is a perfect peacefulness even in the middle of the raging storm.

  John Climacus

  Heart, Perfect, Goal

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• Anybody can get worked up, if they have the intention. It's peacefulness that is hard to come by on purpose.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Purpose, Intention, Hard

  Barbara Kingsolver (2011). “Pigs in Heaven”, p.200, Faber & Faber

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• True peacefulness comes from abandoning the illustion that satisfying desires brings pleasure.

  Joan Z. Borysenko

  Happiness, Desire, Pleasure

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• Peace is the altar of God, the condition in which happiness exists.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Peace, Altars, Conditions

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• I've just become quite fixated on the idea of calmness and peacefulness somewhere, someday.

  Ellie Goulding

  Ideas, Someday, Calmness

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• Freedom from desire leads to inner peace.

  Laozi

  Peace, Desire, Calmness

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• Just as white light consists of colored rays, so reverence for life contains all the components of ethics: love, kindliness, sympathy, empathy, peacefulness and power to forgive.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Light, White, Empathy

  Albert Schweitzer (1965). “The Teaching of Reverence for Life”, New York : Holt, Rinehart and Winston

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• I just remember their kindness and goodness to me, and their peacefulness and their utter simplicity. They inspired real reverence, and I think, in a way, they were certainly saints. And they were saints in that most effective and telling way: sanctified by leading ordinary lives in a completely supernatural manner, sanctified by obscurity, by usual skills, by common tasks, by routine, but skills, tasks, routine which received a supernatural form from grace within.

  Thomas Merton

  Kindness, Real, Thinking

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• Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on Thee.

  Isaiah

  Bible, Trusting Him, Perfect

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• All I will say is we get wiser as we get older. And that what I am looking for in life is the same as I always have; happiness, peacefulness and joy. And that's all I'm going to say about that because otherwise I'd get into trouble

  George Clooney

  Joy, Life Is, Trouble

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• You might be tempted to avoid the messiness of daily living for the tranquility of stillness and peacefulness. This of course would be an attachment to stillness, and like any strong attachment, it leads to delusion. It arrests development and short-circuits the cultivation of wisdom.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Life, Strong, Attachment

  Jon Kabat-Zinn (2005). “Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life”, Hyperion

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• Competition [in a scene] is healthy. Competition is life. Yet most actors refuse to acknowledge this. They don't want to compete. They want to get along. And they are therefore not first-rate actors.

  Michael Shurtleff

  Competition, Healthy, Acting

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• Moments of kindness and reconciliation are worth having, even if the parting has to come sooner or later.

  Alice Munro

  Peace, Kindness, Moments

  FaceBook post by Alice Munro from Jan 11, 2011

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• If you want to be a civilised man, first you have to be a non-violent man! If you want to be a civilised country, first you have to be a non-violent country! Violence is the means of the sick minds; peacefulness is the means of the healthy minds!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Country, Mean, Men

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• There is a peacefulness, an air of reflection, about a rocking-chair that attaches to no other moving object.

  Wallis Simpson

  Moving, Reflection, Air

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• I didn’t want any flowers, I only wanted to lie with my hands turned up and be utterly empty. How free it is, you have no idea how free.

  Sylvia Plath

  Lying, Flower, Hands

  Sylvia Plath (2010). “Ariel”, p.14, Faber & Faber

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