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Go with the wind, you know, like a sailboat. I think that's really important when it comes to peace… inner peace especially. You can't help anyone else if you don't have it together for yourself.
Jhene Aiko
'Set sail on the winds of serenity, for true tranquility begins within.'
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Where there is no love, pour love in, and you will draw love out.
John of the Cross
Introduce compassion into the equation and you will be rewarded with affection.
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Be honest with yourself. The world is not honest with you. The world loves hypocrisy. When you are honest with yourself you find the road to inner peace.
Paramahansa Yogananda
Be sincere with yourself. The world is not genuine with you. The world cherishes duplicity. When you are sincere with yourself you discover the path to inner tranquillity.
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Having lots of money while not having inner peace is like dying of thirst while bathing in the ocean.
Paramahansa Yogananda
Possessing abundant wealth without serenity is akin to perishing of dehydration while immersed in the sea.
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The peace that we are looking for is not peace that crumbles as soon as there is difficulty or chaos. Whether we’re seeking inner peace or global peace or a combination of the two, the way to experience it is to build on the foundation of unconditional openness to all that arises. Peace isn’t an experience free of challenges, free of rough and smooth, it’s an experience that’s expansive enough to include all that arises without feeling threatened.
Pema Chodron
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Learn silence. With the quiet serenity of a meditative mind, listen, absorb, transcribe, and transform.
Pythagoras
Unearth stillness. With the tranquil poise of a reflective psyche, hearken, assimilate, register, and transmogrify.
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I would like to beg of you, dear friend, as well as I can, to have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books written in a foreign language. Do not now look for the answers. They cannot now be given to you because you could not live them. It is a question of experiencing everything.
Rainer Maria Rilke
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You can't touch love, but you can feel the sweetness that it pours into everything.
Anne Sullivan Macy
You cannot physically grasp love, but you can sense the tenderness it exudes into every aspect of life.
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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
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When we start to feel anxious or depressed, instead of asking, "What do I need to get to be happy?" The question becomes, "What am I doing to disturb the inner peace that I already have?"
D.T. Suzuki
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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
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The task we must set for ourselves is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity.
Erich Fromm
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Happiness is spiritual, born of truth and love. It is unselfish; therefore it cannot exist alone, but requires all mankind to share it.
Mary Baker Eddy
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The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.
Deepak Chopra
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The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.
Carl Sandburg
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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
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I have inner peace. It's a different person.
Lauryn Hill
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Inner #‎ peace begins the moment you choose not to allow another person or event to control your #‎ emotions
Pema Chodron
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A happy woman is one who has no cares at all; a cheerful woman is one who has cares but doesn't let them get her down.
Beverly Sills
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A joy that's shared is a joy made double.
John Ray
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One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.
William Feather
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The secret to achieving inner peace lies in understanding our inner core values – those things in our lives that are most important to us – and then seeing that they are reflected in the daily events of our lives.
Hyrum W. Smith
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If you're looking for inner peace from the outside world, you're not going to get that. The inner peace starts with looking at you from the inside.
Mary J. Blige
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Life at its noblest leaves mere happiness far behind; and indeed cannot endure it. Happiness is not the object of life: life has no object: it is an end in itself; and courage consists in the readiness to sacrifice happiness for an intenser quality of life.
George Bernard Shaw
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Nothing matters so much that we should throw ourselves into a state of panic about it.
No happening is so important that we should let ourselves be exiled
from from inner peace and mental calm for its sake.
Paul Brunton
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Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind.
Daphne du Maurier
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I suffer because my interactions with others do not meet the expectations I did not know I had.
Jim McDonald
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Contentment is a pearl of great price, and whoever procures it at the expense of ten thousand desires makes a wise and a happy purchase.
John Balguy
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One of the advantages of being born in an affluent society is that if one has any intelligence at all, one will realize that having more and more won't solve the problem, and happiness does not lie in possessions, or even relationships: The answer lies within ourselves. If we can't find peace and happiness there, it's not going to come from the outside.
Tenzin Palmo
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No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days.
Max Planck
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Seek peace. When you have peace within, real peace with others will be possible.
Nhat Hanh
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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
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When you were born, you cried and everybody else was happy. The only question that matters is this - when you die, will you be happy when everybody else is crying?
Tony Campolo
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Running is about finding your inner peace, and so is a life well lived.
Dean Karnazes
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If a person's basic state of mind is serene and calm, then it is possible for this inner peace to overwhelm a painful physical experience.
Dalai Lama
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Forgiveness is the key to inner peace because it is the mental technique by which our thoughts are transformed from fear to love.
Marianne Williamson
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Happiness is not the endless pursuit of pleasant experiences - that sounds more like a recipe for exhaustion - but a way of being that results from cultivating a benevolent mind, emotional balance, inner freedom, inner peace, and wisdom. Each of these qualities is a skill that can be enhanced through training the mind.
Matthieu Ricard
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Always engage in the quest for life's meaning, which is inner peace.
Longchenpa
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The more we control our mind, the more our inner peace increases and the happier we become
Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
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Inner peace comes only as we maintain the integrity of truth in all aspects of our lives.
Russell M. Nelson
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Do not blindly believe what others say. See for yourself what brings contentment, clarity and peace. That is the path for you to follow.
Gautama Buddha
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Some of us might find happiness if we quit struggling so desperately for it.
William Feather
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Learning to distance yourself from all the negativity is one of the greatest lessons to achieve inner peace.
Roy T. Bennett
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Government cannot provide values to persons who have none, or who have lost those they had. It cannot provide inner peace. It can provide outlets for moral energies, but it cannot create those energies.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan
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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