Nathaniel Branden Quotes

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

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

Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change others.

When you lose everything, and I mean everything, you sit there in this empty room in the dark, and the only person who can get you out is you.

I find peace anywhere I go. It depends on what is within the walls of my own home.

Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.

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

What I've realized is that, especially in Los Angeles, a lot of people are on some kind of path, even if they're not completely conscious of it. I've sort of always been on a path to find more peace, more security within myself. I've always felt like I needed something to help me feel better.

Make ones center of life inside ones self, not selfishly or excludingly, but with a kind of unassailable serenity.

Go with the wind, you know, like a sailboat. I think that's really important when it comes to peace… inner peace especially. You can't help anyone else if you don't have it together for yourself.

Create a world, your world. Alone. Stand alone. And then love will come to you, then it comes to you.

Acquire peace of mind by making the effort to become the best of which you are capable.

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

If half a century of living has taught me anything at all, it has taught me that nothing can bring you peace but yourself.

When a man has made peace within himself, he will be able to make peace in the whole world.

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

If I really want inner peace in my life, then I must not busy myself with what other people do and say.

Without changing one's self, without peace in one's self, world peace is not possible.

You must find your own quiet center of life, and write from that to the world.

It is only through inner peace that we can have true outer freedom.

Who would you be without the thought that happiness depends on someone else?

The degree of panic activity in my life is equal to the degree of my lack of personal spiritual experience.

You owe it to yourself not to permit your emotions to place your happiness in the keeping of another person.

Resolutely train yourself to attain peace

Stress never feels as natural as peace does