Peace quotes
Having lots of money while not having inner peace is like dying of thirst while bathing in the ocean
That person realizes peace who, relinquishing all desires, exists without craving and is unidentified with the mortal ego and its sense of "mine-ness."
Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.
There may come a time in our lives when we have to stand up and fight a war. But we can approach even that with peace in our hearts. When we approach it that way, we will fight only to the extent that is necessary. But when we are in anger and hatred, for one injustice we will cause another. This is what is happening in the world today.
It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.
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Happiness Quotes
The initial state of happiness accompanying sensuality is always followed by unhappiness, owing to the impairment of physical vitality, mental self-control, and spiritual peace
Many people think excitement is happiness.... But when you are excited you are not peaceful. True happiness is based on peace.
The quality of your life does not depend on your clothes, car, or home, but on how peaceful and joyful you are
Don't expect to attain unalloyed peace and happiness from earthly life. This should be your attitude: no matter what your experiences are, enjoy them in an objective way, as you would a movie.
You must not expect life's experiences to yield lasting peace or happiness. You have to find peace and happiness within yourself
The saints have found that happiness lies in a constant mental state of unruffled peace during all the experiences of earthly dualities
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Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.
Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the world earth revolves - slowly, evenly, without rushing toward the future.
Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace.
If someone thinks that peace and love are just a cliche that must have been left behind in the 60s, that's a problem. Peace and love are eternal.
We don't realize that, somewhere within us all, there does exist a supreme self who is eternally at peace.
Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!
Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Me holding a gun to your head, you holding a gun to my head, and both of us did not shoot - this is not peace, this is madness
The nations of the world talk about peace only when they are at a disadvantage. When they are at an advantage, they talk about war and aggression.
The measure of wealth is freedom. The measure of health is lightness. The measure of intellect is judgment. The measure of wisdom is silence. The measure of love is peace.
Most of the world is like a mental hospital. Some persons are sick with jealousy, others with anger, hatred, passion. They are victims of their habits and emotions. But you can make your home a place of peace.
When you do the right thing, you get the feeling of peace and serenity associated with it. Do it again and again.
Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and right-doing there is a field. I'll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass the world is too full to talk about.
You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us. And the world will live as one.
The Simple Path: Silence is Prayer, Prayer is Faith, Faith is Love, Love is Service, The Fruit of Service is Peace
The day I understood everything, was the day I stopped trying to figure everything out. The day I knew peace was the day I let everything go.
Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent. To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring--it was peace.
Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life, bringing peace, abolishing strife.
The things that will destroy America are prosperity at any price, peace at any price, safety first instead of duty first and love of soft living and the get-rich-quick theory of life.
The soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.
Peace is what every human being is craving for, and it can be brought about by humanity through the child.
later that night i held an atlas in my lap, ran my fingers across the whole world and whispered where does it hurt? it answered everywhere everywhere everywhere.
He who keeps his heart near God will find peace and tranquility, whilst he who gives his heart to the people will find restlessness and apprehension.
The mind can go in a thousand directions, but on this beautiful path, I walk in peace. With each step, the wind blows. With each step, a flower blooms.
Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.
That's why I'm so successful because peace is my main thing, it's not about money. It's about making sure everybody is having a good time and loving and living and enjoying life.
If all of us become truly peaceful human beings, no conflict within us... would the world be peaceful? Do we have to separately cast... start a campaign for a peaceful world? No. If people were peaceful society would be peaceful
what you call as peace is a certain kind of chemistry. What you call as joy is another kind of chemistry. Misery, Agony, Ecstasy.. certain kind of chemistry. So, there is a chemical basis to every experience that you go through but if you try to cause it from outside then it causes various problems in the system and it is not sustainable
It does not take any spiritual teaching to become loving, compassionate, and peaceful. It is just simple sense
Peace is not just absence of war, but a cohesive and compassionate existence both within and without.
This too much talk about 'Peace' is a concoction of the disturbed minds, too many disturbed minds, so they are making up this whole business about peace.
You don't have to do anything to be peaceful if you don't mess yourself, you are peaceful, how else to be?
Even if there is no war, there is no peace in the human mind, there is a war being waged upon yourself within yourself, if that is taken off, there is peace.
Your body and mind function at their best only when you are in a certain state of peacefulness and joyfulness.
Whenever conflict flares up in the world today, people talk about peace. We need to understand, peace is not something that we have to create. Conflict is our creation.
If human beings disappeared from the planet, the world would be very peaceful. If you don't create conflict, there is peace.
With every transaction we have with each other, what is my profit is your loss, and what is my loss is your profit. It is always give-and-take; someone makes a little more, someone a little less. This is bound to happen. If we get angry and disturbed within ourselves whenever we make a little less in a transaction, peace is not going to happen.
People are willing to share what they don't have, not what they do have! People who don't have, talk about sharing, compromise and peace. People who have it all, are always going after and getting what they want
A peaceful being does not mean a passive being. Especially the youth of the world tend to understand peace as passivity, and violence as action. That's not true. You can be very peaceful within yourself and still do whatever is needed. In fact, whatever is needed can be done well only if you are peaceful within yourself
If someone else decides what you should wear, what you should eat, and how you should be, it is called slavery. But right now, just about anyone can decide what is happening within you. Anyone can hijack the peace within you at any moment and make you angry and hateful. Anyone can create what they want within you. Is this not slavery?
(If there has to be world peace) The first thing a human being has to learn is to be peaceful within himself
Peace, Happiness, misery, anxiety, suffering, anger, and hatred have a certain chemical basis within you. There are simple methods with which one can create the right kind of chemistry within oneself. If you are willing to invest just a few minutes a day in your inner wellbeing, being peaceful & happy within yourself becomes natural.
we would not be human if we did not miss loved ones; but in feeling lonesome for them we don't want selfish attachment to be the cause of keeping them earthbound. Extreme sorrow prevents a departed soul from going ahead toward greater peace and freedom
By continuously giving love to those who are unkind, peace to those who are harassed by worries, sweetness to those who are bitter, joy to those who are laden with miseries; and by constantly setting a better example for those who follow the path of error, you destroy moods by keeping the mind creatively busy
Affirm divine calmness and peace, and send out only thoughts of love and goodwill if you want to live in peace and harmony. Never get angry, for anger poisons your system.
Peace is the enjoyment of life, activity is the expression of life. A balance between the activity of the West and the calmness of the East is needed.
If you die you're completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. I'm not afraid of dying. Total peace after death, becoming someone else is the best hope I've got.
Unfortunately, for most people peace has become the highest goal in life. Such people will only Rest In Peace. We need to understand that peace is the most fundamental requirement, not the highest goal
If you want to really know higher dimensions of life, there needs to be a constant sense of peacefulness and joyfulness within you
Peace and joy happens neither in the quietness of the forest nor in the accomplishments of the marketplace, but only from within
The first proof of God's presence is ineffable peace. This evolves into joy humanly inconceivable. Once you have touched the Source of truth and life, all nature will respond to you. Finding God within, you will find Him without
I am calmly active. I am actively calm. I am a Prince of peace sitting on the throne of poise, directing the kingdom of activity.
The aftereffects of Kriya bring with them the utmost peace and bliss. The joy that comes with Kriya is greater than the joys of all pleasurable physical sensations put together.
That consciousness of God-peace is never-ending. It is the real state of happiness. Everything else will fail you. Nothing else can make you happy because only the joy of His presence is real.
Disillusioned by unsatisfying sense pleasures, man is haunted by the memory of his lost soul peace. Harmed by the poisoned honey of pleasures, he ultimately seeks the pure divine nectar.
Quiet is peace. Tranquility. Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life. Silence is pushing the off button. Shutting it down. All of it