Byron Katie Quotes

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

And neither shall we learn to war with ourselves anymore.

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

The mind at war with itself does war with any other mind, and that produces war in the world - all of it.

The world will be at war as long as the mind is at war with itself.

We are not at peace with others because we are not at peace with ourselves, and we are not at peace with ourselves because we are not at peace with God.

You have peace," the old woman said, "when you make it with yourself.

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

If you establish serenity and happiness inside yourself, you provide the world with a solid base of peace. If you do not give yourself peace, how can you share it with others? If you do not begin your peace work with yourself, where will you go to begin it?

We cannot give what we do not have: We cannot bring peace to the world if we ourselves are not peaceful. We cannot bring love to the world if we ourselves are not loving. Our true gift to ourselves and others lies not in what we have but in who we are.

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.

He can hardly be a true friend to another, who is an enemy to himself.

Having failed to conquer myself, my best hope now is to arrange an alliance with myself.

Caring less what everybody else thinks, but also caring less and less about what your own mind thinks, because what your own mind thinks, sometimes, is the thing that makes you sad.

If you cannot find peace in yourself, it is useless to look for it elsewhere.

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.

My different personalities leave me in peace now.

I'm pretty sure I'm not at war with myself.

Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.

I've always been at war with myself, for right or wrong. I don't know how to explain it more. It's universal. Some people are better at dealing with it, and they sleep with no pain - not pain, arguments. I've grown quite comfortable with being at war.

You simply have to accept that your demons are a part of you.

I woke up one day and thought, 'Enough is enough with bullying myself.' The war is within you, and that's also where it's won. You just have to tackle your insecurities and then let them go.

I have never met a man who has given me as much trouble as myself.