Inward Peace Quotes

#1. Both above and below, without and within, which way so ever thou dost turn thee, everywhere thou shalt find the Cross; and everywhere of necessity thou must hold fast patience, if thou wilt have inward peace, and enjoy an everlasting crown.

Thomas A Kempis

#2. Never be hurried in anything. Do all things calmly and in a spirit of repose. Do not lose your inward peace even if everything seems to be going wrong. What is anything in life compared to peace of soul?

Francis De Sales

#3. Caution is crediting, and reserve in speaking, and in revealing one's self to but very few, are the best securities both of a good understanding with the world, and of the inward peace of our own minds.

Thomas A Kempis

#4. God sweetens outward pain with inward peace.

Thomas Watson

#5. Without prayer there is no inward peace.

Mahatma Gandhi

#6. A man must seek his happiness and inward peace from objects which cannot be taken away from him.

Wilhelm Von Humboldt

#7. The labor of self-love is a heavy one indeed. Think whether much of your sorrow has not arisen from someone speaking slightingly of you. As long as you set yourself up as a little god to which you must be loyal, how can you hope to find inward peace.

A.W. Tozer

#8. Let tears flow of their own accord; their flowing is not inconsistent with inward peace and harmony.

Seneca The Younger

#9. The Holy Ghost is the greatest guarantor of inward peace in our unstable world.

James E. Faust

#10. He talked of this, and passionately longed to hear more of Kitty, and, at the same time, was afraid of hearing it. He dreaded the breaking up of the inward peace he had gained with such effort. "Yes,

Leo Tolstoy

#11. To achieve that state of lasting happiness and absolute peace, we must first know how to calm the mind, to concentrate and go beyond the mind. By turning the mind's concentration inward, upon the self, we can deepen that experience of perfect concentration. This is the state of Meditation.

Sivananda

#12. Happiness is less regulated by external circumstances than inward enjoyment. Whoever is happy in the satisfaction of himself feels imperturbable felicity; but he, who trusts entirely to the world for the disposition of his peace, must inevitably participate [in] many privations and disappointments.

Norm MacDonald

#13. The only test of a soul's salvation is its inward happiness.

Lin Yutang

#14. When you open your heart with a quiet mind love rushes in.

Genevieve Gerard

#15. In a world that is deepening its mutual interdependence, inward-focused thinking is no longer able to safeguard the peace of Japan. We will fully defend the lives and assets of our nationals as well as our territory, territorial waters, and territorial airspace in a resolute manner.

Shinzo Abe

#16. The man who tells lies hides the truth, but the man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it.

Robert Bolt

#17. Scars are just tattoos with better stories." Again,

Gayle Forman

#18. Let us now yearn for the possibility of building a happiness in every heart. Let us now build inward a new world of hope, a world of limitless possibilities for the children of tomorrow, where each soul can reach the heights of their potential to love and to be loved.

Bryant McGill

#19. Women become attached to men by the intimacies they grant them; men are cured of their love by the same intimacies.

Jean De La Bruyere

#20. Order means light and peace, inward liberty and free command over one's self; order is power.

Henri Frederic Amiel

#21. To eliminate the inner turmoil we must focus our attention inward and act with loving kindness to ourselves - and each other.

Michelle Cruz-Rosado

#22. The happiness for which our souls ache is one undisturbed by success or failure, one which will root deeply inside us and give inward relaxation, peace, and contentment, no matter what the surface problems may be. That kind of happiness stands in need on no outward stimulus.

Billy Graham

#23. Happiness can only be achieved by looking inward & learning to enjoy whatever life has and this requires transforming greed into gratitude.

John Chrysostom

#24. The mind is by nature restless. Begin liberating it from its restlessness; give it peace; make it free from distractions; train it to look inward; make this a habit. This is done by ignoring the external world and removing the obstacles to peace of mind.

Ramana Maharshi

#25. If nothing's working for you, if you feel as though you're pushing forward against the grain, the most productive and proactive thing you can do is nothing. Nature is turning you inward, to gain power through peace, rather than outward to gain power through activity.

Martha N. Beck

#26. Abetted by a form of education that in itself has been emptied of any coherent world-view, Technopoly deprives us of the social, political, historical, metaphysical, logical, or spiritual bases for knowing what is beyond belief.

Neil Postman

#27. I tend to think that knowledge is preceded by power instead of the other way around.

Zephyr Teachout

#28. There is only continual motion. If I rest, if I think inward, I go mad. There is so much, and I am torn in different directions, pulled thin, taut against horizons too distant for me to reach. Swift, ceaseless pace. Will I never rest in sunlight again - slow, languid & golden with peace?

Sylvia Plath

#29. I told you I don't do casual sex."
He sat up, too, now. "Grace, there is nothing fucking casual about how I feel about you.

Samantha Young

#30. Real fatherhood means love and commitment and sacrifice and a willingness to share responsibility and not walking away from one's children.

William Bennett

#31. Time to go inward, man, I hope I have the nerve, to take inventory of the causes that I serve.

Rodney Crowell

#32. When you make a mistake, son, you face it.
he's gonna yell at me, dad
well, yeah. you broke his window. he has the right to yell.
(chase and his dad)

C.C. Hunter

#33. Civilization, stretching up to recognize that every child is a portion of State wealth, may presently make some movement to recognize maternity as a business or office needing time and strength, not as a mere passing detail thrown in among mountains of other slavery.

Miles Franklin

#34. Pain is not insignificant. Neither is bewilderment or fear. Or conditions like poverty or homelessness. But somewhere - somewhere - there is peace. It is not even far off. It is somewhere deep inside us, in fact, ever present, just waiting for us to look inward to find it. She

Mary Balogh