Inspirations

When one is rising, standing, walking, doing something, stopping, one should constantly concentrate one's mind on the act and the doing of it, not one ones' relation to the act or its character or value... One should simply practice concentration o f the mind on the act itself, understanding it to be an expedient means for attaining tranquility of mind, realization, insight, and wisdom.

- Ashvaghosha

I've got to have a place where I can find peace of mind.

- Princess of Wales Diana

A mind at peace, a mind centered and not focused on harming others, is stronger than any physical force in the universe.

- Wayne Dyer

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 G Jampolsky

Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change others.

- Gerald G Jampolsky

Every goal, every action, every thought, every feeling one experiences, whether it be consciously or unconsciously known, is an attempt to increase one's level of peace of mind.

- Sidney Madwed

Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful.

- Norman Vincent Peale

It is far easier to make war than to make peace.

- Georges Clemenceau

Harmony is one phase of the law whose spiritual expression is love.

- James Allen

Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live.

- Marcus Aurelius

Right human relations is the only true peace.

- Alice A Bailey

Those who love thy law have great peace, and nothing causes them to stumble. [Psalms 119:165]

- Bible

The peace makers shall be called the children of God.

- Bible

Seek peace, and pursue it.

- Proverbs 34:14, Bible

When a person's ways please the Lord, he makes even his enemies to be at peace with them.

- Bible

We've learned how to destroy, but not to create, how to waste, but not to build, how to kill men, but not how to save them, how to die, but seldom how to live.

- Omar Nelson Bradley

He insulted me, he cheated me, he beat me, he robbed me, those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.

- Buddha

I prefer the most unfair peace to the most righteous war.

- Marcus T Cicero

What all men are really after is some form, or perhaps only some formula, of peace.

- Joseph Conrad

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily based on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts of justice and police.

- Albert Einstein

Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

- Dwight D Eisenhower

We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.

- Dwight D Eisenhower

Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.

- Dwight D Eisenhower

We have heard much of the phrase, ''peace and friendship.'' This phrase, in expressing the aspiration of America, is not complete. We should say instead, ''peace and friendship, in freedom.'' This, I think, is America's real message to the rest of the world.

- Dwight D Eisenhower

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself, nothing, but the triumph of principles.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where these is hatred, let me sow love.

- Saint Francis of Assisi

When you're finally up on the moon, looking back at the earth, all these differences and nationalistic traits are pretty well going to blend and you're going to get a concept that maybe this is really one world and why the hell can't we learn to live together like decent people?

- Borman Frank

There never was a good war or a bad peace.

- Benjamin Franklin

Peace is not something you wish for, It's something you make, Something you do, Something you are, And something you give away.

- Robert Fulghum

It is madness for sheep to talk peace with a wolf.

- Thomas Fuller

Mental violence has no potency and injures only the person whose thoughts are violent. It is otherwise with mental non-violence. It has potency which the world does not yet know.

- Mahatma Gandhi

A peace that comes from fear and not from the heart is the opposite of peace. Gersonides

- Philosopher

We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of Peace.

- William E Gladstone

Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.

- Dag Hammarskjold

The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned.

- Dag Hammarskjold

Peace is not made at the council table or by treaties, but in the hearts of men.

- Herbert Clark Hoover

It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion.

- Dean William R Inge

Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.

- Thomas Jefferson

To get Peace you must work for Justice.

- John Paul 6

If we are to live together in peace, we must come to know each other better.

- Lyndon B Johnson

Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.

- Lyndon B Johnson

I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.

- Helen Keller

First keep peace with yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.

- Thomas A Kempis

Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.

- John F Kennedy

You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.

- Charles F Kettering

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

- Martin Luther King Junior

Live and let live is the rule of common justice.

- Sir Roger L'Estrange

When a man finds no peace within himself, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.

- Francois De La Rochefoucauld

All we are saying is give peace a chance...

- John Lennon

Imagine all the people living life in peace. 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 be as one.

- John Lennon

I heard the bells on Christmas Day. Their old familiar carols play. And wild and sweet the words repeat. Of peace on earth goodwill to men.

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if they are to be ultimately at peace with themselves.

- Abraham H Maslow

Let the ideas clash but not the hearts.

- C C Mehta

Everybody today seems to be in such a terrible rush, anxious for greater developments and greater riches and so on, so that children have very little time for their parents. Parents have very little time for each other, and in the home begins the disruption of peace of the world.

- Mother Teresa

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

- Mother Teresa

What we need is a generation of peace.

- Jawaharlal Nehru

The man who has gotten everything he wants is all in favor of peace and order.

- Jawaharlal Nehru

The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

- Richard M Nixon

Violence is unnecessary and costly. Peace is the only way.

- Julius Kambarge Nyerere

The world cannot continue to wage war like physical giants and to seek peace like intellectual pygmies.

- Basil O'Connor

We can work on inner peace and world peace at the same time. On one hand, people have found inner peace by losing themselves in a cause larger than themselves, like the cause of world peace, because finding inner peace means coming from the self-centered life into the life centered in the good of the whole. On the other hand, one of the ways of working for world peace is to work for more inner peace, because world peace will never be stable until enough of us find inner peace to stabilize it.

- Peace Pilgrim

When you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others.

- Peace Pilgrim

World peace will never be stable until enough of us find inner peace to stabilize it

- Peace Pilgrim

One little person, giving all of her time to peace, makes news. Many people, giving some of their time, can make history.

- Peace Pilgrim

No one can find inner peace except by working, not in a self- centered way, but for the whole human family.

- Peace Pilgrim

This is the way of peace: Overcome evil with good, falsehood with truth, and hatred with love.

- Peace Pilgrim

If you want peace work for justice.

- Pope Paul 6

When we can't find peace in ourselves it is vain to look for it elsewhere.

- Proverb

Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.

- Indian Proverb

The peace dividend is peace.

- Dan Quayle

If we want a free and peaceful world, if we want to make the deserts bloom and man grow to greater dignity as a human being-we can do it.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

Peace, like charity, begins at home.

- Franklin D Roosevelt

Peace is more precious than a piece of land.

- Anwar Sadat

Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.

- Carl Sandburg

Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.

- Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

There are weapons that are simply thoughts. For the record, prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy.

- Rod Serling

Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

- Baruch

Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.

- U Thant

Let us not be justices of the peace, but angels of peace.

- Saint Theresa of Lisieux

The practice of peace and reconciliation is one of the most vital and artistic of human actions.

- Thich Nhat Hanh

It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow's viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences.

- Harry S Truman

I would rather have peace in the world than be President.

- Harry S Truman

Since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defenses of peace must be constructed.

- Unesco

Peace is the deliberate adjustment of my life to the will of God.

- Source Unknown

Peace may cost as much as war, but it is a better buy.

- Source Unknown

Peace won by the compromise of principles is a short-lived achievement.

- Source Unknown

The best way to end a war is not to begin it.

- Source Unknown

Two things rob people of their peace of mind : work unfinished and work not yet begun.

- Source Unknown

Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.

- George Washington

Peace is our gift to each other.

- Elie Wiesel

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Get Inspired for Success Strategy 7: Develop Emotional Maturity

I've got to have a place where I can find peace of mind.

A mind at peace, a mind centered and not focused on harming others, is stronger than any physical force in the universe.

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.

Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change others.

Every goal, every action, every thought, every feeling one experiences, whether it be consciously or unconsciously known, is an attempt to increase one's level of peace of mind.

Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful.

It is far easier to make war than to make peace.

Harmony is one phase of the law whose spiritual expression is love.

Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live.

Right human relations is the only true peace.

Those who love thy law have great peace, and nothing causes them to stumble. [Psalms 119:165]

The peace makers shall be called the children of God.

Seek peace, and pursue it.

When a person's ways please the Lord, he makes even his enemies to be at peace with them.

We've learned how to destroy, but not to create, how to waste, but not to build, how to kill men, but not how to save them, how to die, but seldom how to live.

He insulted me, he cheated me, he beat me, he robbed me, those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.

I prefer the most unfair peace to the most righteous war.

What all men are really after is some form, or perhaps only some formula, of peace.

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily based on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts of justice and police.

Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.

Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.

We have heard much of the phrase, ''peace and friendship.'' This phrase, in expressing the aspiration of America, is not complete. We should say instead, ''peace and friendship, in freedom.'' This, I think, is America's real message to the rest of the world.

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself, nothing, but the triumph of principles.

Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.

Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where these is hatred, let me sow love.

When you're finally up on the moon, looking back at the earth, all these differences and nationalistic traits are pretty well going to blend and you're going to get a concept that maybe this is really one world and why the hell can't we learn to live together like decent people?

There never was a good war or a bad peace.

Peace is not something you wish for, It's something you make, Something you do, Something you are, And something you give away.

It is madness for sheep to talk peace with a wolf.

Mental violence has no potency and injures only the person whose thoughts are violent. It is otherwise with mental non-violence. It has potency which the world does not yet know.

A peace that comes from fear and not from the heart is the opposite of peace. Gersonides

We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of Peace.

Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.

The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned.

Peace is not made at the council table or by treaties, but in the hearts of men.

It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion.

Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.

To get Peace you must work for Justice.

If we are to live together in peace, we must come to know each other better.

Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.

I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.

First keep peace with yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.

Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.

You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.

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

Live and let live is the rule of common justice.

When a man finds no peace within himself, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.

All we are saying is give peace a chance...

Imagine all the people living life in peace. 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 be as one.

I heard the bells on Christmas Day. Their old familiar carols play. And wild and sweet the words repeat. Of peace on earth goodwill to men.

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if they are to be ultimately at peace with themselves.

Let the ideas clash but not the hearts.

Everybody today seems to be in such a terrible rush, anxious for greater developments and greater riches and so on, so that children have very little time for their parents. Parents have very little time for each other, and in the home begins the disruption of peace of the world.

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

What we need is a generation of peace.

The man who has gotten everything he wants is all in favor of peace and order.

The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

Violence is unnecessary and costly. Peace is the only way.

The world cannot continue to wage war like physical giants and to seek peace like intellectual pygmies.

When you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others.

World peace will never be stable until enough of us find inner peace to stabilize it

One little person, giving all of her time to peace, makes news. Many people, giving some of their time, can make history.

No one can find inner peace except by working, not in a self- centered way, but for the whole human family.

This is the way of peace: Overcome evil with good, falsehood with truth, and hatred with love.

If you want peace work for justice.

When we can't find peace in ourselves it is vain to look for it elsewhere.

Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.

The peace dividend is peace.

If we want a free and peaceful world, if we want to make the deserts bloom and man grow to greater dignity as a human being-we can do it.

Peace, like charity, begins at home.

Peace is more precious than a piece of land.

Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.

Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.

There are weapons that are simply thoughts. For the record, prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy.

Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.

Let us not be justices of the peace, but angels of peace.