Top 100 Peace of Mind Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “If it is peace you want, seek to change yourself, not other people. It is easier to protect your feet with slippers than to carpet the whole of the earth.”

— Anthony de Mello

52. “Trusting God’s plan is the only secret I know in the gentle art of not freaking out.”

— Lysa TerKeurst

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

— Paramahansa Yogananda

54. “Do you know what is needed for non-violent communication? Patience! Look inside and see, ‘Am I losing my patience?’ If yes, then increase your patience.”

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

55. “Anxiety is the greatest evil that can befall a soul, except sin. God commands you to pray, but He forbids you to worry.”

— Saint Francis de Sales

56. “Running is about finding your inner peace, and so is a life well lived.”

— Dean Karnazes

57. “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

58. “You can develop the right mental attitude when you realize that nothing external can upset you or hurt you without your mental consent.”

— Joseph Murphy

59. “The inquiry “who am I” turns the mind inward and makes it calm.”

— Ramana Maharshi

60. “True happiness lies within you.”

— Og Mandino

61. “The greatest need of our time is to clean out the enormous mass of mental and emotional rubbish that clutters our minds”

— Thomas Merton

62. “Mind is the creator of everything.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

63. “You don’t need to know what tomorrow holds; all you need to know is the One who holds tomorrow.”

— Joyce Meyer

64. “I – Want – Peace, I is ego, Want is desire; Remove ego and desire and you have peace.”

— Sathya Sai Baba

65. “I free myself from hatred through forgiveness and love.”

— Paulo Coelho

66. “Love and Compassion are the true religions to me. But to develop this, we do not need to believe in any religion.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

67. “When you make it a strong habit not to take anything personally, you avoid many upsets in your life. Your anger, jealousy, and envy will disappear, and even your sadness will simply disappear if you don’t take things personally.”

— Miguel Ruiz

68. “Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the world earth revolves – slowly, evenly, without rushing toward the future.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

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

— Eckhart Tolle

70. “When you transform your mind, everything you experience is transformed.”

— Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche

71. “If you feel a sense of social responsibility, first of all keep working on yourself. Being peaceful yourself is the first step if you want to live in a peaceful universe.”

— Ram Dass

72. “For real happiness, for real lasting stable happiness, one has to make a journey deep within oneself and see that one gets rid of all the unhappiness and misery stored in the deeper levels of the mind.”

— S. N. Goenka

73. “You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts; And when you can no longer dwell in the solitude of your heart you live in your lips, and sound is a diversion and a pastime. And in much of your talking, thinking is half murdered.”

— Khalil Gibran

74. “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

75. “With mindfulness, you can establish yourself in the present in order to touch the wonders of life that are available in that moment.”

— Nhat Hanh

76. “If you have fear of some pain or suffering, you should examine whether there is anything you can do about it. If you can, there is no need to worry about it; if you cannot do anything, then there is also no need to worry.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

77. “With genuine love and compassion, another person’s appearance or behavior has no effect on your attitude.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

78. “Peace doesn’t come from finding a lake with no storms. It comes from having Jesus in the boat.”

— John Ortberg Jr.

79. “Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now.”

— Jack Kerouac

80. “If there is a solution to a problem, there is no need to worry. And if there is no solution, there is no need to worry.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

81. “Live the actual moment. Only this moment is life.”

— Nhat Hanh

82. “Peace begins when expectation ends.”

— Sri Chinmoy

83. “In an easy and relaxed manner, in a healthy and positive way, in its own perfect time.”

— Mark Allen

84. “Don’t belong to anything. Don’t belong to anyone. Just Be. Feel your Being first and foremost, and don’t compare or compete. Just Be your Being.”

— Mooji

85. “I am no longer anxious about anything, as I realize that He is able to carry out His will for me. It does not matter where He places me, or how. That is for Him to consider, not me, for in the easiest positions He will give me grace, and in the most difficult ones His grace is sufficient.”

— James Hudson Taylor

86. “Once you find that peace, that place of peace and quiet, harmony and confidence, that’s when you start playing your best.”

— Roger Federer

87. “When the mind is left without anything to cling to, it becomes still.”

— Ramana Maharshi

88. “I am determined to practice deep listening. I am determined to practice loving speech.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

89. “Everything that has a beginning has an ending. Make your peace with that and all will be well.”

— Jack Kornfield

90. “The power is in you. The answer is in you. And you are the answer to all your searches: you are the goal. You are the answer. It’s never outside.”

— Eckhart Tolle

91. “My dear heart, never think you are better than others. Listen to their sorrows with compassion. If you want peace, don’t harbor bad thoughts, do not gossip and don’t teach what you do not know.”

— Rumi

92. “In times of stress, the best thing we can do for each other is to listen with our ears and our hearts and to be assured that our questions are just as important as our answers.”

— Fred Rogers

93. “The only conversion involved in Vipassana is from misery to happiness, from bondage to liberation.”

— S. N. Goenka

94. “No expectations. Ask nothing, expect nothing and accept everything, and life is very well.”

— Anthony Hopkins

95. “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

96. “Happiness does not come about only due to external circumstances; it mainly derives from inner attitudes.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

97. “Let the waters settle and you will see the moon and the stars mirrored in your own being.”

— Rumi

98. “The purpose of all the major religious traditions is not to construct big temples on the outside, but to create temples of goodness and compassion inside, in our hearts.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

99. “Don’t go into the new year holding a grudge from last year. Leave the hurts and disappointments behind.”

— Joel Osteen

100. “To cultivate equanimity we practice catching ourselves when we feel attraction or aversion, before it hardens into grasping or negativity.”

— Pema Chödrön