Top 200 Inner Peace Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “By the practice of meditation, you will find that you are carrying within your heart a portable paradise.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

102. “Spiritual Awakening is awakening from the dream of thought.”

— Eckhart Tolle

103. “In my life nothing goes wrong. When things seem to not meet my expectations, I let go of how I think things should be. It’s a matter of not having any attachment to any fixed outcome.”

— Deepak Chopra

104. “Pay no attention to the faults of others, things done or left undone by others. Consider only what by oneself is done or left undone.”

— Buddha

105. “Realize that your world is only a reflection of yourself and stop finding fault with the reflection. Attend to yourself, set yourself right; mentally and emotionally. The physical self will follow automatically.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

106. “Today, like every other day, we wake up empty and frightened. Don’t open the door to the study and begin reading. Take down the dulcimer. Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.”

— Rumi

107. “The past is gone, the future is not yet here, and if we do not go back to ourselves in the present moment, we cannot be in touch with life.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

108. “The wave does not need to die to become water. She is already water.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

109. “When the mind is calm, how quickly, how smoothly, how beautifully you will perceive everything.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

110. “It is our attitude toward events, not events themselves, which we can control. Nothing is by its own nature calamitous – even death is terrible only if we fear it.”

— Epictetus

111. “A miracle is a shift in perception from fear to love.”

— Marianne Williamson

112. “In your own bosom you bear your heaven and earth, And all you behold, though it appears without, It is within, in your imagination, Of which this world of mortality is but a shadow.”

— William Blake

113. “You don’t need strength to let go of something. What you really need is understanding.”

— Guy Finley

114. “Stress is caused by being here but wanting to be there, or being in the present but wanting to be in the future. It’s a split that tears you apart inside.”

— Eckhart Tolle

115. “It is not impermanence that makes us suffer. What makes us suffer is wanting things to be permanent when they are not.”

— Nhat Hanh

116. “Give up being right. Instead radiate peace, harmony, love, and laughter from your heart.”

— Deepak Chopra

117. “For me, success is inner peace. That’s a good day for me.”

— Denzel Washington

118. “Work for God, love God alone, and be wise with God. When an ordinary man puts the necessary time and enthusiasm into meditation and prayer, he becomes a divine man.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

119. “Self-care is never a selfish act – it is only good stewardship of the only gift I have, the gift I was put on earth to offer others.”

— Parker J. Palmer

120. “If you are in a state of intense presence you are free of thought, yet highly alert. If your conscious attention sinks below a certain level, thought rushes in, the mental noise returns, stillness is lost, you’re back in time.”

— Eckhart Tolle

121. “Breathing in, there is only the present moment. Breathing out, it is a wonderful moment.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

122. “Yoga is a mirror to look at ourselves from within.”

— B.K.S. Iyengar

123. “Remember, the entrance door to the sanctuary is inside you.”

— Rumi

124. “Forgive those who have hurt you.”

— Les Brown

125. “Now is the time to take back your energy, your power, and your peace.”

— Debbie Ford

126. “If you suffer it is because of you, if you feel blissful it is because of you. Nobody else is responsible – only you and you alone. You are your hell and your heaven too.”

— Rajneesh

127. “Letting go a little brings a little peace. Letting go a lot brings a lot of peace. Letting go completely brings complete peace.”

— Ajahn Chah

128. “Retire to the center of your being, which is calmness.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

129. “How to get rid of the mind? Is it the mind that wants to kill itself? The mind cannot kill itself. So your business is to find the real nature of the mind. Then you will know that there is no mind. When the Self is sought, the mind is nowhere. Abiding in the Self, one need not worry about the mind.”

— Ramana Maharshi

130. “Thoughts are like drops of water: with our thoughts we can drown in a sea of negativity, or we can float on the ocean of life.”

— Louise Hay

131. “Boredom, anger, sadness, or fear are not ‘yours,’ not personal. They are conditions of the human mind. They come and go. Nothing that comes and goes is you.”

— Eckhart Tolle

132. “To change the world is not your mission. To change yourself is not your duty. To awaken to your true nature is your opportunity.”

— Mooji

133. “When you drop all your ideas, fantasies and projections about who you are and what freedom is and remain completely empty, this is freedom.”

— Mooji

134. “Within you there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself.”

— Hermann Hesse

135. “When you are not honoring the present moment by allowing it to be, you are creating drama.”

— Eckhart Tolle

136. “You need no time to open yourself to the power of now and so awaken to who you are beyond name and form and realize that in the depth of your being, you are already complete, whole, one with the timeless essence of all life.”

— Eckhart Tolle

137. “When we change, the world changes. The key to all change is in our inner transformation- a change of our hearts and minds. This is human revolution. We all have the power to change. When we realize this truth, we can bring forth that power anywhere, anytime, and in any situation.”

— Daisaku Ikeda

138. “Untrained warriors are soon killed on the battlefield; so also persons untrained in the art of preserving their inner peace are quickly riddled by the bullets of worry and restlessness in active life.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

139. “If it is bread that you seek, you will have bread. If it is the soul you seek, you will find the soul. If you understand this secret, you know you are that which you seek.”

— Rumi

140. “If there is no peace in the minds of individuals, how can there be peace in the world? Make peace in your own mind first.”

— S. N. Goenka

141. “What a liberation to realize that the ‘voice in my head’ is not who I am. ‘Who am I, then?’ The one who sees that.”

— Eckhart Tolle

142. “Yoga allows you to find an inner peace that is not ruffled and riled by the endless stresses and struggles of life.”

— B.K.S. Iyengar

143. “Life is short and the time of death is uncertain; so apply yourself to meditation. Avoid doing evil, and acquire merit, to the best of your ability, even at the cost of life itself. In short: Act so that you have no cause to be ashamed of yourselves and hold fast to this rule.”

— Milarepa

144. “Always seek less turbulent skies. Hurt. Fly above it. Betrayal. Fly above it. Anger. Fly above it. You are the one who is flying the plane.”

— Marianne Williamson

145. “You believe that you live in the world, where in fact the world lives within you.”

— Deepak Chopra

146. “Simply look at whatever happens and know that you are beyond it.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

147. “Meditation takes us from survival to creation; from separation to connection; from imbalance to balance; from emergency mode to growth-and-repair mode; and from the limiting emotions of fear, anger, and sadness to the expansive emotions of joy, freedom, and love.”

— Joe Dispenza

148. “Go slowly, breathe and smile.”

— Nhat Hanh

149. “The Art of Peace begins with you...”

— Morihei Ueshiba

150. “Give up all ideas about yourself and simply be.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj