Life is full of stress and is quite fast-paced these days, which doesn’t give you time to sit peacefully in a relaxed state of mind. You are always on the go doing some task or other. But to take out time for yourself is very important. This helps you to do a bit of introspection and do some personal growth amidst the chaos of everyday life.
Below are a few quotes that may help you find some inner peace within yourself that you seek. These will surely inspire you to take a break, meditate and transform your inner thoughts gradually.
Finding peace quotes and sayings
- “Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “May you find peace in your heart and healing in your soul.”
- “Peace only comes from accepting the inevitable and taming our desires.”
- “Peace is always beautiful.” – Walt Whitman
- “Only the just man enjoys peace of mind.” – Epicurus
- “Freedom from desire leads to inner peace.” – Lao Tzu
- “Walk in the direction where your peace is found.” – Steven Aitchison
- “Peace is its own reward.” – Mahatma Gandhi
- “Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.” – Buddha
- “Remember the entrance to the sanctuary is inside you.” – Rumi
- “To be calm is the highest achievement of the self.” – Zen proverb
- “Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.” – Buddha
- “Peace is liberty in tranquility.” – Marcus Tullius Cicero
- “Do not let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace.” – Dalai Lama
- “The nearer a man comes to a calm mind, the closer he is to strength.” – Marcus Aurelius
- “If you can win over your mind, you can win over the whole world.” – Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
- “Peace is not the absence of power. Peace is the presence of love.” – Sri Chinmoy
- “You’ll never find peace of mind until you listen to your heart.” – George Michael
- “The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil.” – Cicero
- “Remain calm in every situation because peace equals power.” – Joyce Meyer
- “To bear trials with a calm mind robs misfortune of its strength and burden.” – Seneca
- “Fearlessness presupposes calmness and peace of mind.” – Mahatma Gandhi
- “Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace.” – Robert J. Sawyer
- “There is a calmness to a life lived in gratitude, a quiet joy.” – Ralph H. Blum
- “Peace of mind is that mental condition in which you have accepted the worst.” – Lin Yutang
- “For peace of mind, we need to resign as general manager of the universe.” – Larry Eisenberg
- “If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having.” – Henry Miller
- “Promise yourself to be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind.” – Christian D. Larson
- “A rational person can find peace by cultivating indifference to things outside of their control.” – Naval Ravikant
- “There will be calmness, tranquility when one is free from external objects and is not perturbed.” – Bruce Lee
- “Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.” – Buddha
- “Chasing after the world brings chaos. Allowing it all to come to me, brings peace.” – Zen Gatha
- “The life of inner peace, being harmonious and without stress, is the easiest type of existence.” – Norman Vincent Peale
- “The life of inner peace, being harmonious and without stress, is the easiest type of existence.” – Norman Vincent Peale
- “Certainty is impossible. Once you realize it, you stop seeking it and you become calm.” – Maxime Lagacé
- “Learn to calm down the winds of your mind, and you will enjoy great inner peace.” – Remez Sasson
- “If you want peace, stop fighting. If you want peace of mind, stop fighting with your thoughts.” – Peter McWilliams
- “Inner peace doesn’t come from getting what we want, but from remembering who we are.” – Marianne Williamson
- “We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.” – Dalai Lama
- “When you’ve seen beyond yourself, then you may find, peace of mind is waiting there.” – George Harrison
- “The measure of wisdom is how calm you are when facing any given situation.” – Naval Ravikant
- “Anyone who enjoys inner peace is no more broken by failure than he is inflated by success.” – Matthieu Ricard
- “If you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else.” – Marvin Gaye
- “Within you, there is a stillness and a sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself.” – Hermann Hesse
- “Peace is the result of retraining your mind to process life as it is, rather than as you think it should be.” – Wayne W. Dyer
- “When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.” – Francois de La Rochefoucauld
- “You find peace not by rearranging the circumstances of your life, but by realizing who you are at the deepest level.” – Eckhart Tolle
- “It isn’t enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn’t enough to believe in it. One must work at it.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
- “Finally, brothers, rejoice. Aim for restoration, comfort one another, agree with one another, live in peace; and the God of love and peace will be with you.” – 2 Corinthians 13:11 (Bible Verse)
- “We don’t realize that, somewhere within us all, there does exist a supreme self who is eternally at peace.” – Elizabeth Gilbert
- “Inner peace begins the moment you choose not to allow another person or event to control your emotions.” – Pema Chodron
- “The more you can observe and understand yourself, your mind and your thoughts, the calmer you’ll be.” – Maxime Lagacé
- “Look at a tree, a flower, a plant. Let your awareness rest upon it. How still they are, how deeply rooted in being. Allow nature to teach you stillness.” – Eckhart Tolle
- “Love and peace of mind do protect us. They allow us to overcome the problems that life hands us. They teach us to survive… to live now… to have the courage to confront each day.” – Bernie Siegel
- “Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.” – John F. Kennedy
- “When we understand clearly that inner peace is the real source of happiness, and how, through spiritual practice, we can experience progressively deeper levels of inner peace, we will develop tremendous enthusiasm to practice.” – Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
- “If there’s no inner peace, people can’t give it to you. The husband can’t give it to you. Your children can’t give it to you. You have to give it to you.” – Linda Evans
- “But the self-controlled man, moving among objects, with his senses under restraint, and free from both attraction and repulsion, attains peace.” – Chinmayananda Saraswati
- “To find peace, sometimes you have to be willing to lose your communication with people, places, and things that create all the noise in your life.”
- “A calm and modest life brings more happiness than the pursuit of success combined with constant restlessness.” – Albert Einstein
- “Peace is a day-to-day problem, the product of a multitude of events and judgments. Peace is not an ‘is,’ it is a ‘becoming.’” – Haile Selassie
- “The greater the level of calmness of our mind, the greater our peace of mind, the greater our ability to enjoy a happy and joyful life.” – Dalai Lama
- “Breathing in, I calm body and mind. Breathing out, I smile. Dwelling in the present moment I know this is the only moment.” – Thich Nhat Hanh
- “Never be in a hurry, do everything quietly and in a calm spirit. Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever, even if your whole world seems upset.” – Francis de Sales
- “Meditation is not a way of making your mind quiet. It is a way of entering into the quiet that is already there – buried under the 50,000 thoughts the average person thinks every day.” – Deepak Chopra
- “Peace does not lie in getting God to give me other circumstances. Peace lies in finding God in these circumstances.” – John Ortberg
- “Compassion, tolerance, forgiveness and a sense of self-discipline are qualities that help us lead our daily lives with a calm mind.” – Dalai Lama
- “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
- “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.” – Thich Nhat Hanh
- “When I can resist the temptation to judge others, I can see them as teachers of forgiveness in my life, reminding me that I can only have peace of mind when I forgive rather than judge.” – Gerald Jampolsky
- “Just slow down. Slow down your speech. Slow down your breathing. Slow down your walking. Slow down your eating. And let this slower, steadier pace perfume your mind. Just slow down.” – Doko