Top 200 Inner Peace Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Do not let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

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2. “Wisdom comes with the ability to be still. Just look and just listen. No more is needed. Being still, looking, and listening activates the non-conceptual intelligence within you. Let stillness direct your words and actions.”

— Eckhart Tolle

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3. “A heart full of love and compassion is the main source of inner strength, willpower, happiness, and mental tranquility.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

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4. “Breathing in, I calm body and mind. Breathing out, I smile. Dwelling in the present moment I know this is the only moment.”

— Nhat Hanh

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5. “Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

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6. “World peace must develop from inner peace. Peace is not just mere absence of violence. Peace is, I think, the manifestation of human compassion.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

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7. “Peace is present right here and now, in ourselves and in everything we do and see. Every breath we take, every step we take, can be filled with peace, joy, and serenity. The question is whether or not we are in touch with it. We need only to be awake, alive in the present moment.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

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8. “You and I are the same. What I have done is surely possible for all. You are the Self now and can never be anything else. Throw your worries to the wind, turn within and find Peace.”

— Ramana Maharshi

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9. “Live in Joy, In love, Even among those who hate. Live in joy, In health, Even among the afflicted. Live in joy, In peace, Even among the troubled. Look within. Be still. Free from fear and attachment, Know the sweet joy of living in the way.”

— Buddha

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10. “To know yourself as the Being underneath the thinker, the stillness underneath the mental noise, the love and joy underneath the pain, is freedom, salvation, enlightenment.”

— Eckhart Tolle

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11. “You begin by letting thoughts flow and watching them. The very observation slows down the mind till it stops altogether. Once the mind is quiet, keep it quiet. Don’t get bored with peace, be in it, go deeper into it.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

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12. “Don’t hurry anything. Don’t worry about the future. Don’t worry about what progress you’re making. Just be entirely content to be aware of what is.”

— Alan Watts

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13. “There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.”

— Epictetus

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14. “The future is a concept, it doesn’t exist. There is no such thing as tomorrow. There never will be, because time is always now. That’s one of the things we discover when we stop talking to ourselves and stop thinking. We find there is only present, only an eternal now.”

— Alan Watts

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15. “No thought, no mind, no choice – just being silent, rooted in yourself.”

— Osho

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16. “My meditation is simple. It does not require any complex practices. It is simple. It is singing. It is dancing. It is sitting silently.”

— Osho

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17. “You are the sky. Everything else – it’s just the weather.”

— Pema Chödrön

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18. “We are here to awaken from our illusion of separateness.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

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19. “In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you.”

— Deepak Chopra

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20. “Life is available only in the present moment.”

— Nhat Hanh

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21. “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

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22. “Observe your thoughts, don’t believe them.”

— Eckhart Tolle

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23. “Only the present moment contains life.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

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24. “Just remain in the center; watching. And then forget that you are there.”

— Lao Tzu

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25. “Stillness is the only thing in this world that has no form. But then, it is not really a thing, and it is not of this world.”

— Eckhart Tolle

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26. “Stillness is the altar of spirit.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

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27. “This is my simple religion. No need for temples. No need for complicated philosophy. Your own mind, your own heart is the temple. Your philosophy is simple kindness.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

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28. “Discontent, blaming, complaining, self-pity cannot serve as a foundation for a good future, no matter how much effort you make.”

— Eckhart Tolle

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29. “Regardless of the events or circumstances that are happening, remain steady and established in the Self. Then you can be truly happy and blissful.”

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

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30. “Nonresistance, nonjudgment, and nonattachment are the three aspects of true freedom and enlightened living.”

— Eckhart Tolle

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31. “Read a little. Meditate more. Think of God all the time.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

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32. “The mind is the source of all experience, and by changing the direction of the mind, we can change the quality of everything we experience.”

— Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche

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33. “Sticking with that uncertainty, getting the knack of relaxing in the midst of chaos, learning not to panic-this is the spiritual path.”

— Pema Chödrön

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34. “Oh soul, you worry too much. You have seen your own strength. You have seen your own beauty. You have seen your golden wings. Of anything less, why do you worry? You are in truth the soul, of the soul, of the soul.”

— Rumi

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35. “When you live in complete acceptance of what is, that is the end of all drama in your life.”

— Eckhart Tolle

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36. “If you can do something about a situation, why worry? And if you can’t do something about a situation, why worry?”

— Dalai Lama XIV

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37. “You already are, the peace you are looking for. Be still and know that.”

— Mooji

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

— Marcus Aurelius

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39. “Impermanence is a principle of harmony. When we don’t struggle against it, we are in harmony with reality.”

— Pema Chödrön

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

— Eckhart Tolle

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41. “Here is my secret: I don’t mind what happens.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

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42. “You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.”

— Khalil Gibran

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43. “It’s all about finding the calm in the chaos.”

— Donna Karan

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44. “We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.”

— C.G. Jung

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45. “If there is a God, he is within. You don’t ask God to give you things, you depend on God for your inner theme.”

— Bruce Lee

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46. “If you avoid conflict to keep the peace, you start a war inside yourself.”

— Cheryl Richardson

47. “The longer and farther I ran, the more I realized that what I was often chasing was a state of mind – a place where worries that seemed monumental melted away, where the beauty and timelessness of the universe, of the present moment, came into sharp focus.”

— Scott Jurek

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48. “The goal of spirituality is to bring such happiness, which nobody can take away from you.”

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

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49. “It is only when the mind is free from the old that it meets everything anew, and in that there is joy.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

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50. “If you don’t go within, you go without.”

— Neale Donald Walsch

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