Quotes about Peace

I have come to this hill to see the sun go down, to recover sanity and put myself again in relation with Nature.

The natural remedy is to be found in the proportion which the night bears to the day.

There can be no very black melancholy for him who has his senses still and lives in the midst of nature.

I would rather sit in the open air, for no dust gathers on the grass, unless where man has broken ground.

I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A

I doubted if the near neighborhood of man was not essential to a serene and healthy life.

Now, as I before hinted, I have no objection to any person's religion, be it what it may, so long as that person does not kill or insult any other person, because that other person don't believe it also. But when a man's religion becomes really frantic; when it is a positive torment to him; and, in fine, makes this earth of ours an uncomfortable inn to lodge in; then I think it high time to take that individual aside and argue the point with him.

Just to keep myself balanced, I do things like yoga and meditation.

Yoga can benefit you no matter what mood you find yourself in.

Become a worry-slapper. Treat frets like mosquitoes. Do you procrastinate when a bloodsucking bug lights on your skin? 'I'll take care of it in a moment.' Of course you don't! You give the critter the slap it deserves. Be equally decisive with anxiety.

When our lives are filled with peace, faith and joy, people will want to know what we have.

Inner peace doesn't come from getting what we want, but from remembering who we are.