Peter McWilliams Quotes

The world will be at war as long as the mind is at war with itself. If we can't find peace within ourselves, where is the hope for peace in the world?

We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.

Our capacity to make peace with another person and with the world depends very much on our capacity to make peace with ourselves.

If you cannot get along with yourself, you'll never be able to get along with other people.

Ever since I met Sangram Singh, I am at peace with myself.

Be at peace with yourself first and then you will be able to bring peace to others.

If you're not at peace with yourself, you can't be at peace with anyone else.

One of the most significant characteristics of healthy self esteem is that it is the state of one who is not at war either with himself or with others.

Every goal, every action, every thought, every feeling one experiences, whether it be consciously or unconsciously known, is an attempt to increase one's level of peace of mind.

Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.

When you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others.

There's competition at every phase of your life. The day we start thinking about it, you lose your peace of mind. I don't compete with anyone.

You've got to tune out the other people and tune in to what's going on inside. Love yourself. Nourish your body.

But I want first of all- in fact, as an end to these other desires- to be at peace with myself.

Knowest thou not the beauty of thine own face? Quit this temper that leads thee to war with thyself.

If you are not at peace with yourself then you cannot spread peace.

Happy people are not their own enemies, do not carry on an endless war with their souls. We may be fiercely at odds with the wrongs of the world around us. But inside ourselves, near the core, if we are happy, we are at peace.

It really is the relationship you have with your self that presents the key to the “kingdom”, so to speak... Fighting is good, but not when it is fighting yourself. Changing the world is good but first one has to start inside and concurrently make that place right. The strife and the ugliness in the world is the outward manifestation of this troubled relationship we have within on a whole.

I have to introduce the part of me that feels like a winner to the part of me convinced I’m a loser, and see if they can’t agree to exist somewhere closer to the middle.

When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.

Compassionate action starts with seeing yourself when you start to make yourself right and when you start to make yourself wrong. At that point you could just contemplate the fact that there is a larger alternative to either of those, a more tender, shaky kind of place where you could live.

When you are in harmonywith yourself, you'll be in harmony with everyone else.

When you learn to get along with yourself, you will know how to get along with everybody.

You must first get along with yourself before you can get along with others.

I was not fighting myself at all as I used to.