Quotes about Inner peace

True happiness... arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self.

Your sacred space is where you can find yourself over and over again.

When besieged, I'm calm as a baby. When all hell breaks loose, I'm collected and cool.

A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.

A good meditation, even when it is interrupted by occasional nodding, is much more beneficial than many outward religious exercises.

One of the greatest lessons of my own life was learning to turn the inner rampage of hatred and anger toward my own father for his reprehensible behavior and abandonment of his family into an inner reaction more closely aligned with God and God-realized love.

The time to pray is beforehand, as Jesus did, crying out to God in private times when nothing is going wrong. That's how to store up power and create an inner atmosphere of peace and faith that you take with you into the troubling situation.

There is nothing your highest self wants more than peace. This peace makes you feel worthy of all of the richest blessings of the universe, and when you radiate this out into the world, it is returned to you without fail.

I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top.

Dearest Lord Jesus, keep me from sin, protect me from evil, and bring peace within.

Truth comes when your mind and heart are purged of all sense of striving and you are no longer trying to become somebody; it is there when the mind is very quiet, listening timelessly to everything.

Forgiveness means that you fill yourself with love and you radiate that love outward and refuse to hang onto the venom or hatred that was engendered by the behaviors that caused the wounds.