Top 200 Inner Peace Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “Freedom means the power to act by soul guidance, not by the compulsions of desires and habits. Obeying the ego leads to bondage; obeying the soul brings liberation.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

52. “When you live in surrender, something comes through you into the world of duality that is not of this world.”

— Eckhart Tolle

53. “Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself.”

— Suzanne Somers

54. “If you wish to see the truth, then hold no opinion for or against.”

— Rajneesh

55. “It is spiritual poverty, not material lack, that lies at the core of all human suffering.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

56. “Harboring unforgiveness is like drinking poison and hoping your enemy will die.”

— Joyce Meyer

57. “We can always begin again.”

— Jack Kornfield

58. “Stop trying to change the world since it is only the mirror. Man’s attempt to change the world by force is as fruitless as breaking a mirror in the hope of changing his face. Leave the mirror and change your face. Leave the world alone and change your conceptions of yourself.”

— Neville Goddard

59. “If you want real control, drop the illusion of control; let life have you. It does anyway. You’re just telling yourself the story of how it doesn’t.”

— Byron Katie

60. “You can look only when the mind is completely quiet.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

61. “Be honest with yourself. The world is not honest with you. The world loves hypocrisy. When you are honest with yourself you find the road to inner peace.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

62. “The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world.”

— Marianne Williamson

63. “Grace is ever present. All that is necessary is that you surrender to it.”

— Ramana Maharshi

64. “Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.”

— Helen Keller

65. “Be melting snow. Wash yourself of yourself.”

— Rumi

66. “When we surrender to God, we let go of our attachment to how things happen on the outside, and we become more concerned with what happens on the inside.”

— Marianne Williamson

67. “Just keep coming home to yourself, you are the one who you’ve been waiting for.”

— Byron Katie

68. “Do your work, then step back. The only path to serenity.”

— Lao Tzu

69. “Surrender is the inner transition from resistance to acceptance, from no to yes.”

— Eckhart Tolle

70. “Breathe in, breathe out, no fear, no doubt.”

— Martha N. Beck

71. “Happiness is simply to allow everything to be exactly as it is from moment to moment.”

— Rupert Spira

72. “Complete surrender usually happens through living. Your very life is the ground where that happens. There may be a partial surrender and then there may be an opening, and then you may engage in spiritual practice.”

— Eckhart Tolle

73. “Your outside world is a reflection of your inside world. What goes on in the inside, shows on the outside.”

— Bob Proctor

74. “Narrow your life down to this moment. Your life situation may be full of problems – most life situations are – but find out if you have a problem at this moment. Do you have a problem now?”

— Eckhart Tolle

75. “Set peace of mind as your highest goal, and organize your life around it.”

— Brian Tracy

76. “On a deeper level you are already complete. When you realize that, there is a joyous energy behind what you do.”

— Eckhart Tolle

77. “Meditation is a vital way to purify and quiet the mind, thus rejuvenating the body.”

— Deepak Chopra

78. “True change is within. Leave the outside as it is.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

79. “We carry inside us the wonders we seek outside us.”

— Rumi

80. “To offer no resistance to life is to be in a state of grace, ease, and lightness.”

— Eckhart Tolle

81. “Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.”

— Buddha

82. “You are all searching for the silence of the mountain. But you’re looking for something outside. This silence is accessible to you right now, inside the center of your own being.”

— Ramana Maharshi

83. “In the beginning you may find meditation very boring, but later on you will find it so addictive. You will start enjoying it so much.”

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

84. “Our real journey in life is interior; it is a matter of growth, deepening, and of an ever greater surrender to the creative action of love and grace in our hearts. Never was it more necessary to respond to that action.”

— Thomas Merton

85. “When you hold resentment toward another, you are bound to that person or condition by an emotional link that is stronger than steel. Forgiveness is the only way to dissolve that link and get free.”

— Catherine Ponder

86. “Let us forgive each other – only then will we live in peace.”

— Leo Tolstoy

87. “Stop. Take 3 deep breaths and smile everywhere in your body, observing what’s happening in your body. Proceed now with kindness and understanding.”

— Deepak Chopra

88. “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.”

— Saint Francis de Sales

89. “As soon as you honor the present moment, all unhappiness and struggle dissolve, and life begins to flow with joy and ease. When you act out the present-moment awareness, whatever you do becomes imbued with a sense of quality, care, and love – even the most simple action.”

— Eckhart Tolle

90. “According to Buddhist psychology most of our troubles stem from attachment to things that we mistakenly see as permanent.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

91. “There is nothing to prove and nothing to protect. I am who I am and it’s enough.”

— Richard Rohr

92. “I looked in temples churches and mosques. But I found the Divine within my heart.”

— Rumi

93. “External silence can be the doorway to inner silence.”

— Ram Dass

94. “Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is life itself, it is an insane way to live.”

— Eckhart Tolle

95. “Without inner peace, outer peace is impossible.”

— Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

96. “That is the real spiritual awakening, when something emerges from within you that is deeper than who you thought you were. So, the person is still there, but one could almost say that something more powerful shines through the person.”

— Eckhart Tolle

97. “If you meditate regularly, even when you don’t feel like it, you will make great gains, for it will allow you to see how your thoughts impose limits on you. Your resistances to meditation are your mental prisons in miniature.”

— Ram Dass

98. “If you are in a dark room, don’t beat at the darkness with a stick, but rather try to turn on the light.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

99. “A miracle is a shift in perception from fear to love-from a belief in what is not real, to faith in that which is. That shift in perception changes everything.”

— Marianne Williamson

100. “True salvation is freedom from negativity, and above all from past and future as a psychological need.”

— Eckhart Tolle