W. Somerset Maugham Quotes

If you do not find peace inside your own heart, then you will not find it anywhere else on earth.

When we are at home with ourselves, we are at home everywhere in the world. When we have found peace within ourselves, peace and love follow us wherever we go.

My mission is to help promote peace by helping others to find inner peace. If I can find it, you can too. Peace is an idea whose time has come.

Peace does not dwell in outward things, but within the soul.

Peace is the altar of God, the condition in which happiness exists.

Give out some love and you'll find peace sublime.

The peace for which every soul strives and which is the true nature of God and the utmost goal of a man is but the outcome of harmony.

Dear God, I give this time of quiet to You. Please dissolve my thoughts of stress and fear And deliver me to the inner place Where all is peace and love. Amen.

Everything is emptiness. Everything else, accidental. Emptiness brings peace to your loving. Everything else, disease. In this world of trickery, emptiness is what your soul wants.

No mockery in this world ever sounds to me so hollow as that of being told to cultivate happiness. What does such advice mean? Happiness is not a potato, to be planted in mould, and tilled with manure. Happiness is a glory shining far down upon us out of Heaven. She is a divine dew which the soul, on certain of its summer mornings, feels dropping upon it from the amaranth bloom and golden fruitage of Paradise.

Love, peace and soul.

I've found joy, peace and perspective. Those are very good things to have.

Work, look for peace and calm in work: you will find it nowhere else.

So I started chanting when I was nineteen, which was about twelve years ago, and it really had a huge impact on my outlook, happiness, and general creativity.

Peace does exist. It exists in your heart and soul.

You have to do what makes you feel good, but for me, it has to come from that spiritual side first.

To me, it's that incredible sense of belonging and peace within your own self and heart that really is joy.

I like nothing more than walking down a country lane or along a mountain path - it's not proof that there is anything bigger than ourselves, but I feel very much at peace.

I'm not religious, but I'm spiritual.

I think nowadays it's very important to re-connect with ourselves and our roots.

There is so much noise in the world! May we learn to be silent in our hearts and before God.

Fasting detaches you from this world. Prayer reattaches you to the next world.

Life has loveliness to sell, / Music like a curve of gold, / Scent of pine trees in the rain, / Eyes that love you, arms that hold, / And for your spirit's still delight, / Holy thoughts that star the night.

There is nothing your highest self wants more than peace.