Looking for peace is like looking for a turtle with a mustache: You won't be able to find it. But when your heart is ready, peace will come looking for you. — Ajahn Chah
Work, look for peace and calm in work: you will find it nowhere else. — Dmitri Mendeleev
Ultimate peace begins within; when we find peace within there will be no more conflict, nor more occasion for war. — Peace Pilgrim
That peace which is within us, we must experience it. And if we are searching for peace outside we will never find the peace within. — Prem Rawat
Peace in your mind, peace on earth, peace at work, peace at home, peace in the world. — John Lennon
We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom. — Dwight D. Eisenhower
Seek peace. When you have peace within, real peace with others will be possible. — Nhat Hanh
Peace is the result of an inner state of harmony. It is not obtained by eliminating anything external, it is inside ourselves that we must find and suppress the causes of war. — Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov
Peace is the only battle worth waging. — Albert Camus
If we are incapable of finding peace in ourselves, it is pointless to search elsewhere. — Francois de la Rochefoucauld
If you do not find peace within, you will not find it anywhere else. The Goal of Life is the attainment of Peace and not the achievement of power, name, fame and wealth. — Sivananda
Peace must begin within self before there can come action or self application in a way to bring peace-even in thine own household, in thine own vicinity, in thine own state or nation. — Edgar Cayce
Peace if possible, truth at all costs. — Martin Luther
Short Search Of Peace Quotes
Peace is more precious than a piece of land. — Anwar Sadat
Peace is the product of justice and love. — Oscar Romero
The quest for peace begins in the home, in the school and in the workplace. — Silvia Cartwright
Coexistence and personal peace are at the heart of global peace and harmony. — Widad Akrawi
Peace is not something you wish for, it's something you make — Robert Fulghum
There is no path to peace; peace is the path. — Mahatma Gandhi
Make peace with man and war with your sins. — Proverbs
Peace is the simplicity of heart, serenity of mind, tranquility of soul, the bond of love. — Pio of Pietrelcina
Peace can only be secured by justice; never by force of arms. — William Penn
Peace is the fruit of activity, not of sleep. — Egyptian Proverbs
Search Of Peace Image Quotes
Health depends on being in harmony with our souls — Edward Bach
Maturity is learning to walk away from people and situation that threaten your peace of mind, self respect, values, morals and self worth.
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. — Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya
I finally figured it out, I finally figured out how to find some peace and happiness. I sure would hate for the man upstairs to take me now. But at least I did figure it out. — Lewis Grizzard
Everyone comes with baggage. Find someone who loves you enough to help you unpack.
From the world’s perspective, there are many places you can go to find comfort. But there is only one place you will find a hand to catch your tears and a heart to listen to your every longing. True peace comes only from God. — Charles Stanley
Three Rules of Work: Out of clutter find simplicity. From discord find harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. — Albert Einstein
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
Peace is within oneself to be found in the same place as agitation and suffering. It is not found in a forest or on a hilltop, nor is it given by a teacher. Where you experience suffering, you can also find freedom from suffering. Trying to run away from suffering is actually to run toward it. — Ajahn Chah
Desire to see God, be fearful of losing Him, and find joy in everything that can lead to Him. If you act in this way, you will always live in great peace. — Teresa of Avila
Places Of Peace Quotes
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. — Paramahansa Yogananda
Once you find that peace, that place of peace and quiet, harmony and confidence, that's when you start playing your best. — Roger Federer
Through your support of UN peacekeeping, you can help to make this tantalizing word-"peace"-a reality for all the world's citizens. Together, we can spread the message that UN peacekeeping is essential. Without it, the world would be a much less stable, and more violent, place. — Tim Wirth
The planet does not need more "successful people". The planet desperately needs more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers and lover of all kinds.
If my comrades are not destined to rule the world, then away with it! A shower of atom bombs upon it and in place of its meaningsless chatter about 'love' and 'peace' the voice of the howling wind over its ruins. — Savitri Devi
Deep within us all there is an amazing inner sanctuary of the soul, a holy place, a Divine Center, a speaking Voice. . . . Life from the Center is a life of unhurried peace and power. It is simple. It is serene. It is amazing. It is radiant. — R. Kelly
Give me the money that has been spent in war and I will clothe every man, woman, and child in an attire of which kings and queens will be proud. I will build a schoolhouse in every valley over the whole earth. I will crown every hillside with a place of worship consecrated to peace. — Charles Sumner
I happened to be in the right place at the right time. — Calvin Harris
It is a quiet and peaceful place - and a fitting place for the remains of this greatest of sea tragedies to rest. — Robert Ballard
That which offends you only weakens you. Being offended creates the same destructive energy that offended you in the first place- so transcend your ego and stay in peace. — Wayne Dyer
Peace is the first thing the angels sang. Peace is the mark of the children of God. Peace is the nurse of love. Peace is the mother of unity. Peace is the rest of the blessed souls. Peace is the dwelling place of eternity. — Pope Leo I
The majority of the common people loathe war and pray for peace; only a handful of individuals, whose evil joys depend on general misery, desire war. — Desiderius Erasmus
When I pray for peace, I pray not only that the enemies of my own country may cease to want war, but above all that my country will cease to do the things that make war inevitable. — Thomas Merton
The less you respond to negative people, the more peaceful your life will become.
Meanwhile, some people are dying of sad laughter at the absurdity of man, who kills so easily and so violently, and once a year sends out cards praying for "Peace on Earth." — David C. Coates
Let us pray for peace: peace in the world and in each of our hearts. — Pope Francis
Pray for the peace of Jerusalem and thine own soul shall be refreshed. — Charles Spurgeon
If you are depressed, you are living in the past. If you are anxious, you are living in the future. If you are at peace, you are living in the present.
I have the opportunity, once more to right some wrongs, to pray for peace, to plant some trees, and sing more joyful songs. — William Arthur Ward
Pray for the strength to walk the high road, which at times may be lonely but which will lead to peace and happiness and joy supernal. — Gordon B. Hinckley
This was my moment to look for the kind of healing and peace that can only come from solitude. — Elizabeth Gilbert
I do not pray for success, I ask for faithfulness. — Mother Teresa
Achieving Peace Quotes
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined... — Henry David Thoreau
Do not let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace. — Dalai Lama
When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.
True happiness comes from having a sense of inner peace and contentment, which in turn must be achieved by cultivating altruism, love and compassion, and by eliminating anger, selfishness and greed. — Dalai Lama
Oppressors can tyrannize only when they achieve a standing army, an enslaved press, and a disarmed populace. — James Madison
Reach high, for stars lie hidden in you. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal. — Rabindranath Tagore
Don’t let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace.
If you want peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies. — Desmond Tutu
I belong to the givers. I want to give a little happiness even if I haven’t had much for myself. Music has enriched my life and, hopefully - through me, a little - the public’s. If anyone left an opera house feeling more happy and at peace, I achieved my purpose. — Maria Callas
Forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the future. — Christian D. Larson
Twenty seconds before a race, there's absolute focus. The key thing is to achieve relaxation, but at the same to have absolute total control. You've got to find the balance between being totally ready to go and being really at peace with yourself as well. — Cathy Freeman
True Peace Quotes
If you judge people, you have no time to love them. — Mother Teresa
Give up identification with this mass of flesh as well as with what thinks it a mass. Both are intellectual imaginations. Recognise your true self as undifferentiated awareness, unaffected by time, past, present or future, and enter Peace. — Adi Shankara
Children are happy because they don't have a file in their minds called "All the Things That Could Go Wrong. — Marianne Williamson
There is a battle of two wolves inside us all. One is evil. It is anger, jealousy, greed, resentment, lies, inferiority and ego. The other is good. It is joy, peace, love, hope, humility, kindness, empathy and truth. The wolf that wins? The one you feed.
Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president. — Theodore Roosevelt
Sleep sweetly, tender heart, in peace;Sleep, holy spirit, blessed soul,While the stars burn, the moons increase,And the great ages onward roll. Sleep till the end, true soul and sweet. Nothing comes to thee new or strange. Sleep full of rest from head to feet;Lie still, dry dust, secure of change. — Alfred Lord Tennyson
We cannot give what we do not have: We cannot bring peace to the world if we ourselves are not peaceful. We cannot bring love to the world if we ourselves are not loving. Our true gift to ourselves and others lies not in what we have but in who we are. — Marianne Williamson
Don't let people pull you into their storm. Pull them into your peace.
We who were formerly no people at all, and who knew of no peace, are now called to be...a church...of peace. True Christians do not know vengeance. They are the children of peace. Their hearts overflow with peace. Their mouths speak peace, and they walk in the way of peace. — Menno Simons
Peace on earth will come to stay, When we live Christmas every day. — Helen Steiner Rice
Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure. — George Edward Woodberry
I call myself a Peaceful Warrior... because the battles we fight are on the inside. — Socrates
Peace Of Soul Quotes
There is in this world no such force as the force of a person determined to rise. The human soul cannot be permanently chained. — W. E. B. Du Bois
I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done. — Marie Curie
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? — Saint Francis de Sales
When the power of love overtakes the love of power, the world will know peace.
At the center of the universe dwells the Great Spirit. And that center is really everywhere. It is within each of us. — Black Elk
Instead of hating the people you think are war-makers, hate the appetites and disorder in your own soul, which are the causes of war. If you love peace, then hate injustice, hate tyranny, hate greed - but hate these things in yourself, not in another. — Thomas Merton
Blessed are the single-hearted, for they shall enjoy much peace. If you refuse to be hurried and pressed, if you stay your soul on God, nothing can keep you from that clearness of spirit which is life and peace. In that stillness you will know what His will is. — Amy Carmichael
Let your door stand open to receive Him, unlock your soul to Him, offer Him a welcome in your mind, and then you will see the riches of simplicity, the treasures of peace, the joy of grace. Throw wide the gate of your heart, stand before the sun of the everlasting light. — Ambrose
Contemplation is nothing else but a secret, peaceful, and loving infusion of God, which, if admitted, will set the soul on fire with the Spirit of love. — John of the Cross
The peace of the world concerns only body and time but the peace, the joy, that Christ gives enriches the soul for eternity — T. B. Joshua
I Want Peace Quotes
When I die, I want to die like my grandfather who died peacefully in his sleep. Not screaming like all the passengers in his car. — Will Rogers
I - Want - Peace, I is ego, Want is desire; Remove ego and desire and you have peace. — Sathya Sai Baba
I am poor and naked, but I am the chief of the nation. We do not want riches but we do want to train our children right. Riches would do us no good. We could not take them with us to the other world. We do not want riches. We want peace and love. — Red Cloud
If you are depressed you are living in the past. If you are anxious, you are living in the future. If you are at peace, you are living in the present.
When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life. — John Lennon
I would like to see every single soldier on every single side, just take off your helmet, unbuckle your kit, lay down your rifle, and set down at the side of some shady lane, and say, nope, I aint a gonna kill nobody. Plenty of rich folks wants to fight. Give them the guns. — Woody Guthrie
Who wants to leave the door open to being dominated physically by another human being? Jiu Jitsu gives you the ability to not be dominated by that person, and to me, that's real peace of mind. I don't have to worry about that when I'm walking around in the world. — Jocko Willink
I wanted to get that sense of peace and even boredom that comes with long familiarity. — Debbie Reynolds
When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down happy. — John Lennon
I want to warn anyone who sees the Peace Corps as an alternative to the draft that life may well be easier at Fort Dix or at apost in Germany than it will be with us. — Sargent Shriver
I am sure the majority of Iranians want a peace agreement with Israel and want Iran to integrate with the international community and accept its universal values. — Moshe Katsav
Spiritual Peace Quotes
The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift. — Albert Einstein
Your profession is not what brings home your weekly paycheck, your profession is what you're put here on earth to do, with such passion and such intensity that it becomes spiritual in calling. — Vincent Van Gogh
If you really want peace of mind and inner calm, you will get it. Regardless of how unjustly you have been treated, or how unfair the boss has been, or what a mean scoundrel someone has proved to be, all this makes no difference to you when you awaken to your mental and spiritual powers. — Joseph Murphy
The acquirement and enjoyment of physical well-being, mental calm and spiritual peace are priceless to their possessors. — Joseph Pilates
It matters not who you love, where you love, why you love, when you love or how you love, it matters only that you love — John Lennon
We have forgotten what rocks and plants still know - we have forgotten how to be - to be still - to be ourselves - to be where life is here and now — Eckhart Tolle
Letting go a little brings a little peace. Letting go a lot brings a lot of peace. Letting go completely brings complete peace. — Ajahn Chah
However many holy words you read, However many you speak, What good will they do you If you do not act on upon them? — Buddha
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
Eventually, you will come to understand that love heals everything, and love is all there is. — Gary Zukav
Peace Through Strength Quotes
We maintain the peace through our strength; weakness only invites aggression. — Ronald Reagan
One can develop new capacities and strengths with which to meet the natural vicissitudes of living; that one may gain a sense of inner peace through greater self-acceptance, through a more realistic perspective on one's relationships and experiences. — Eda LeShan
Ronald Reagan won the Cold War without firing a shot. — Margaret Thatcher
In America, we believe in peace through strength, and that's what we will have. — Donald Trump
I think you believe in these words, I think - three very important words, peace through strength, right. Peace through strength. — Donald Trump
Peace through strength works; but the flip side is war invited by weakness. — Pete Hegseth
You and I have the courage to say to our enemies, 'There is a price we will not pay.' There is a point beyond which they must not advance. This is the meaning of the phrase 'Peace through strength.' — Ronald Reagan
I think I've always believed in Ronald Reagan's adage, "Peace through Strength." Let's grow stronger on a transatlantic basis in our economies. — Mike Pence
I see a comparison between the two [Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump]. Peace through strength. What Chris Matthews don't grasp is that day Donald Trump gave a speech in which he said he's going to build the U.S. military up to Ronald Reagan levels. — Rudy Giuliani
Hard times build determination and inner strength. Through them we can also come to appreciate the uselessness of anger. — Dalai Lama
Finding Inner Peace Quotes
There is no true healing unless there is a change in outlook,
peace of mind and inner happiness — Edward Bach
True and lasting inner peace can never be found in external things. It can only be found within in. And then, once we find and nurture it with ourselves, it radiates outward. — Buddha
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
Live in accordance with your outside world and you’ll soon find misery. Live in accordance with your inside world and you’ll soon find happiness. — Steven Bartlett
Inner # peace begins the moment you choose not to allow another person or event to control your # emotions — Pema Chodron
Inner peace can be reached only when we practice forgiveness. Forgiveness is letting go of the past, and is therefore the means for correcting our misperceptions. — Gerald Jampolsky
The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. — Carl Sandburg
Part of being a helathy person is being well integrated and at peace. — Candace Pert
I think happiness is what makes you pretty. — Drew Barrymore
Inner peace doesn't come from getting what we want, but from remembering who we are. — Marianne Williamson
America... goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all. — John Quincy Adams
In the networks' endless pursuit of controversy, we should ask what is the end value ... to enlighten or to profit? What is the end result ... to inform or to confuse? How does the ongoing exploration for more action, more excitements, more drama, serve our national search for internal peace and stability. — Spiro T. Agnew
Decent work is at the heart of the search for dignity for the individual, stability for the family and peace in the community — Juan Somavia
He who searches for Divine Reality with all his heart and soul and finds it, becomes aware that, before he began to seek God, God was seeking him, in order to draw him into the joy of fellowship with Him, into the peace of His Presence. — Sadhu Sundar Singh
Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. — Og Mandino
Realize that true happiness lies within you. — Lucian
The greatest religious problem today is how to be both a mystic and a militant; in other words how to combine the search for an expansion of inner awareness with effective social action, and how to feel one's true identity in both. — Ursula K. Le Guin
True happiness lies within you. — Og Mandino
In many parts of the world the people are searching for a solution which would link the two basic values: peace and justice. The two are like bread and salt for mankind. — Lech Walesa
Obsessed by a fairy tale, we spend our lives searching for a magic door and a lost kingdom of peace. — Eugene O'Neill
Creative expression, whether that means writing, dancing, bird-watching, or cooking, can give a person almost everything that he or she has been searching for: enlivenment, peace, meaning, and the incalculable wealth of time spent quietly in beauty. — Anne Lamott
Instead of indulging in mere speculation, devote yourself here and now to the search for the Truth that is ever within you. — Ramana Maharshi
It would be naïve to think that peace and justice can be achieved easily. No set of rules or study of history will automatically resolve the problems ... However, with faith and perseverance, ... complex problems in the past have been resolved in our search for justice and peace. — Jimmy Carter
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
Confidence is not a guarantee of success, but a pattern of thinking that will improve your likelihood of success, a tenacious search for ways to make things work. — John Eliot
Hamas retains the right to defend Gaza by the use of the weaponry at its disposal, and is thus not committed to nonviolence, but it does offer the possibility of greater peace and stability for both Israelis and Palestinians if the label of "terrorism" was abandoned and the search for accommodation was commenced in good faith. — Richard A. Falk
What thoughts are so important that it is worth holding on to them even when they make you miserable? Why are you holding on? You are in charge of your thoughts and feelings. If you are willing to search for the reason that you can't let go of disturbing thoughts, you can learn about yourself and restore your own peace of mind. — Bernie Siegel
Enveloped in Your Light, may I be a beacon to those in search of Light. Sheltered in Your Peace, may I offer shelter to those in need of peace. Embraced by Your Presence, so may I be present to others. — Rami M. Shapiro
Perhaps because our culture and politics have gone so off course, with values so contrary to those of Jesus, more and more people intuitively recognize that His vision of God's kingdom-a new world of compassion, justice, integrity and peace- is the Good News they've been searching and waiting for. — Tony Campolo
Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. — Og Mandino
Who are the lunatics? The ones who see horror in the heart of their fellow humans and search for peace at any price? Or the ones who pretend they don't see what's going on around them? The world belongs either to lunatics or hypocrites. There are no other races on this earth. You must choose which one to belong to. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The dignity of self is greatly enhanced by looking upward in the search for holiness. Like the giant trees, we should reach up for the light. The most important source of light we can come to know is the gift of the Holy Ghost. It is the source of inner strength and peace. — James E. Faust
I remember thinking I just want more. This isn't it. Fame is not the goal. Money is not the goal. To be able to know how to get peace of mind, how to be happy, is something you don't just stumble across. You've got to search for it. — George Harrison
Living the gospel does not mean the storms of life will pass us by, but we will be better prepared to face them with serenity and peace. 'Search diligently, pray always, and be believing,' the Lord admonished, 'and all things shall work together for your good, if ye walk uprightly.' — Joseph B. Wirthlin
I believe that in our constant search for security we can never gain any peace of mind until we secure our own soul. — Margaret Chase Smith
We have to have a strong law enforcement in America. So we do not go abroad in the search of war, we really are searching for peace, but it is peace through strength. — Donald Trump
Always firmly believing in a higher power, I have also always been in search of a spiritual peace. — Julianne Malveaux
The search for peace is one of the ultimate quests of the human soul. — Jeffrey R. Holland
The path of peace for us is to hand ourselves over to God and ask Him to search us, not what we think we are, or what other people think we are, or what we persuade ourselves we are or would like to be, but 'Search me out, O God, explore me as I really am in Thy sight.' — Oswald Chambers
The wound of peace is surety, Surety secure; but modest doubt is called The beacon of the wise, the tent that searches To th' bottom of the worst. — William Shakespeare
We often see people every day searching in the wrong places for the things they desire. Too many of our fellow humans try to find peace and happiness in drugs, alcohol, and sensual excitement. And it doesn't work. If we desire peace, the first place to look is within ourselves. Peace isn't an external condition as much as an internal context. — John Templeton
That is how I think of peace and peace of mind-as timid birds that we have to search for, not bold ones that come looking for us. — Margarita Engle
And in this game of life, we all search for ourselves. When I say selves, I mean ‘inner selves’, the thing that created the life in the first place. Now consciously, most of us are not aware of this. But if you’re searching for happiness; if you’re searching for tranquility; if you’re searching just to have a nice, peaceful, loving, understanding life... in actual fact, your searching for your inner self. — Sydney Banks
If you scramble about in search of inner peace, you will lose your inner peace. — Lao Tzu
We pretend with a spiritual life we don't live, a peace we don't experience and a holiness and commitment we don't possess. ... We will never make any progress in becoming more like Jesus unless we permit God to cut us open, search our hearts, try us, know our thoughts and then change us from the inside. Only then can we become real according to the Word of God. — K.P. Yohannan
. . . As a so-called "civilized" people, and as members of a society in search of lasting peace in the world, we cannot remain callous to our responsibility toward nature and insensitive to the inherent rights of the animals. — Nathaniel Altman
The main task for us all is that of a new evangelization aimed at helping younger generations to rediscover the true face of God, who is Love. To you young people, who are in search of a firm hope, I address the very words that Saint Paul wrote to the persecuted Christians in Rome at that time: "May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that you may abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit" (Rom 15:13). — Pope Benedict XVI
However vague they are, dreams have a way of concealing themselves and leave us no peace until they are translated into reality, like seeds germinating underground, sure to sprout in their search for the sunlight. — Lin Yutang
Every person needs to take one day away. A day in which one consciously separates the past from the future. Jobs, family, employers, and friends can exist one day without any one of us, and if our egos permit us to confess, they could exist eternally in our absence. Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for. Each of us needs to withdraw from the cares which will not withdraw from us. — Maya Angelou
Suffering is an oxymoron. There is unfathomable peace and satisfaction in suffering for Christ. It is as though you have searched endlessly for your purpose in life and now found it in the most unexpected place: In the death of your flesh. It is certainly a moment worth of laughter and dance. And in the end it is not suffering at all. The apostle Paul recommended that we find joy in it. Was he mad? — Ted Dekker
More than anything, he wanted to return to the house with the same look of peace that he'd seen on Pastor Harris's face, but he trudged through the sand, he couldn't help feeling like an amateur, someone searching for God's truths like a child searching for seashells. — Nicholas Sparks
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
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