Quotes about peace

Once you realize there is no real destination and life is a constant state of evolution you'll actually start to find peace.

The universe will never give you peace in something you weren't meant to settle in.

May all the good you've ever given circle back and return to you.

Make peace with the fact that people will always see their own version of you in their minds. You don't have to be responsible for who they think you are.

To find peace, sometimes you have to be willing to lose your connection with people, places, and things that create all the noise in your life.

Nothing kills you faster than your own mind. Don't stress over things that are out of your control.

May the calm in you win over the chaos around you.

The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.

Some things are within our control and some things are not. Within our control are opinion, motivation, desire, aversion, and our actions. Not within our control are our body, property, reputation, and office.

He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.

It is not things themselves that trouble us, but our judgements about those things.

Happiness is thought to depend on leisure; for we are busy that we may have leisure, and make war that we may live in peace.

We are as much as we see. Faith is sight and knowledge. The hands only serve the eyes.

We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us.

That I exist is a perpetual surprise which is life.

Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself.

Spirituality means becoming alive in the fullest possible way so you are not just alive on the surface, you are alive to the core.

The past cannot survive in your presence. It can only survive in your absence.

Pleasure is always derived from something outside you, whereas joy arises from within.

Accept everything just the way it is.

Do not regret what you have done.

Be detached from desire your whole life long.

“He abused me, he struck me, he overcame me, he robbed me” — in those who do not harbor such thoughts hatred will cease.

Conquer anger with love, evil with good, meanness with generosity, and lies with truth.

Whatever an enemy might do to an enemy, or a foe to a foe, the ill-directed mind can do to you even worse. Whatever a mother or father might do for you, the well-directed mind can do for you even better.

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

Confine yourself to the present.

Who is everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.

Remember that it is not he who gives abuse or blows who affronts, but the view we take of these things as insulting.

Everything has two handles, the one by which it may be carried, the other by which it cannot.

He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.

A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent upon arriving.

Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.

The wise find pleasure in water; the virtuous find pleasure in hills.

The superior man is satisfied and composed; the mean man is always full of distress.

We are busy that we may have leisure, and make war that we may live in peace.

A human being is a part of the whole, called by us "Universe." He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest — a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness.

Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.

Inhale confidence, exhale doubt.

You are exactly where you need to be.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.

Normalize protecting your peace.

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

What is meant for you will not pass you by.

Beauty will save the world.

A room without books is like a body without a soul.

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

A flower does not think of competing with the flower next to it. It just blooms.

An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.

Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if you will ever dig.

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Nowhere can a man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.

Seek not that the things which happen should happen as you wish; but wish the things which happen to be as they are.

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.

When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everybody will respect you.

Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.

With malice toward none, with charity for all, let us strive on to finish the work we are in.

The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways — I to die, and you to live. Which is better God only knows.

That is well said, replied Candide, but we must cultivate our garden.

To love, or to have loved — this is enough. Ask nothing further.

For the first time, I opened myself to the tender indifference of the world.

The present moment is the only moment available to us, and it is the door to all moments.

Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.

Two things prevent us from happiness: living in the past and observing others.

If you can’t be kind, be quiet.

"Hope" is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.

The growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.

You do not have to be good. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.

The world offers itself to your imagination, calls to you like the wild geese, over and over announcing your place in the family of things.

I hope the exit is joyful, and I hope never to return.

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.

Attention, taken to its highest degree, is the same thing as prayer.

Two things fill the mind with ever-increasing wonder and awe: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.

A free man thinks of nothing less than of death, and his wisdom is a meditation not on death, but on life.

Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue that springs from force of character.

The money we possess is the instrument of freedom; the money we pursue is the instrument of servitude.

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom.

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

Stand a little out of my sun.

I am a citizen of the world.