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Our mind is full of anger, jealousy and other negative feelings. Yet we do not realize that these are incompatible with inner peace and joy.

Outward Peace is useless without inner Peace

Peace is a necessary condition of spirituality, no less than an inevitable result of it.

Peace of mind is that mental condition in which you have accepted the worst.

Peace is not achieved by controlling nations, but mastering our thoughts.

Peace in the world relies on individuals finding inner peace.

Peace isn't the mere absence of violence; peace must come from inner peace. And inner peace comes from taking others’ interests into account.

Praise & esteem can feel good, which is fine, but don't look to them for inner peace & lasting happiness.

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.

Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment.

Surrender is a journey from the outer turmoil to the inner peace.

Some of us might find happiness if we quit struggling so desperately for it.

Seek peace. When you have peace within, real peace with others will be possible.

Self-understanding rather than self-condemnation is the way to inner peace and mature conscience.

Soul Mountain, the story of one man’s quest for inner peace and freedom.

Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get.

The most evident sign of having found the Truth is the inner peace.

The gift of willingness is the only thing that stands between the quiet desperation of a disingenuous life and the actualization of unexpressed potential.

The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy.

The key to happiness is to get the spirit and keep it.

The more refined one is, the more unhappy.

The man who has no inner-life is a slave to his surroundings.

The only test of a soul's salvation is its inward happiness.

The only peace, the only security, is in fulfillment.

The person senses what it feels like to be free from inhibitions. At the same time he feels connected and integrated – with his body and, through his body, with his environment. He has a sense of well-being and inner peace. He gains the knowledge that the life of the body resides in its involuntary aspect. […] Unfortunately these beautiful feelings do not always hold up under the stress of daily living in our modern culture. The pace, the pressure and the philosophy of our times are antithetical to life.

There is a criterion by which you can judge whether the thoughts you are thinking and the things you are doing are right for you. The criterion is: Have they brought you inner peace?

The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

The quickest way to experiencing the peace inside, is to learn to recognize when I am not at peace.

The secret of happiness is something to do.

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.

The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.

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.

To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity.

The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one's life. For me this began with a discovery of the meaninglessness of possessions beyond my actual and immediate needs. As soon as I had brought myself down to need level, I began to feel a wonderful harmony in my life between inner and outer well-being, between spiritual and material well-being.

The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace.

The way to be happy is to make others so.

The true, or higher part of the self is always seeking the state that mystics talk about, the state in which we are filled with a universal love and a peaceful euphoria.

To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life - bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.

To the world I may seem very poor, walking penniless and wearing or carrying in my pockets my only material possessions, but I am really very rich in blessings which no amount of money could buy - health and happiness and inner peace.

We have to learn that service to the greater good is the greatest satisfaction. That idea is at the basis of all the great traditions dating back into history. When you get inside yourself - and you really find that deep inner peace that's rooted in love - then you can't live a life that we see being manifested in the large parts of the world right now.

True inward quietness ... is not vacancy, but stability - the steadfastness of a single purpose.

Watch yourself with all diligence, lest the enemy steals near and robs you, depriving you of this great treasure, which is inner peace and stillness of soul. The enemy strives to destroy the peace of the soul, because he knows that when the soul is in turmoil it is more easily led to evil. But you must guard your peace.

We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

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?

We yearn for there to be meaning to our lives, balanced with a sense of inner peace & joy.

When we live moment to moment, we place ourselves at the center of life, where infinite wisdom abides, rather than on the periphery, where things are forever changing and we are susceptible to the vagaries of the world. It is in our awareness each moment of our oneness with God that our inner peace and greatest strength lie.

We must walk according to the highest light we have, encountering lovingly those who are out of harmony, and trying to inspire them toward a better way. Whenever you bring harmony into any unpeaceful situation, you contribute to the cause of peace. When you do something for world peace, peace among groups, peace among individuals, or your own inner peace, you improve the total peace picture.

What is the worth of anything, But for the happiness 'twill bring?

What we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the (preferably sudden) satisfaction of needs which have been dammed up to a high degree.

When we live in the spirit of gratitude, there will be much happiness in our life. The one who is grateful is the one who has much happiness while the one who is ungrateful will not be able to have happiness.