Marya Mannes Quotes

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

Radical self-care is what we've been longing for, desperate for, our entire lives-friendship with our own hearts.

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

When you acquire enough inner peace and feel really positive about yourself, it's almost impossible for you to be controlled and manipulated by anybody else.

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

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

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.

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

I'm more contented and at peace with myself now than I was as a box-office queen. I'm less uptight. I've even reached a stage where it doesn't shatter me if somebody prints something bad about me.

Being enough was going to have to be an inside job.

He looked down at her. "Have you found that peace?" Yes, she had. But it was so corny and cliched that she couldn't bring herself to admit it. "A wise man once told me that peace has to come from within. We have to learn to like ourselves before we can find our place in the world.

Life is about balance. The good and the bad. The highs and the lows. The thing everyone should realize is that the key to happiness is being happy by yourself and for yourself. Happiness comes from within. You have the power to change your own mindset so that all the negative, horrible thoughts that try to invade your psyche are replaced with happy, positive, wonderful thoughts.

I believe I know the only cure, which is to make one’s center of life inside of one’s self, not selfishly or excludingly, but with a kind of unassailable serenity—to decorate one’s inner house so richly that one is content there, glad to welcome anyone who wants to come and stay, but happy all the same when one is inevitably alone.

Everything I want to do, and to accomplish, is on the other side of the universe. That's peace of mind, energy, freedom. And I'm making myself ready to go, joyfully and willingly. I think I'm ready to be everybody's friend, and to do anything for anybody. It's heavy.

We are all on a journey to mastering our inner peace.

As you get older, it's always a process of self-love, learning how to really do that for yourself instead of trying to find it outside yourself.

What would you be like if you were the only person in the world? If you want to be truly happy you must be that person.

The self-surmounter can never put up with the man who has ceased to be dissatisfied with himself.

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

I no longer have the fear of being alone. It's cool to find out that you don't need a boyfriend to be happy.

As you recognize that you already own the wholeness you seek, and no one outside you can give you more than you already are, dysfunctional situations will evaporate like bad dreams exposed to the morning sun.

I'm not competing with anyone, or begging someone to love me. I feel like I'm loved and I deserve to be where I am.

You're always with yourself, so you might as well enjoy the company.

I think I'm really feel I've done so much that I'm OK with not having everybody's attention. Sometimes it's overbearing. I used to think that I would never feel this way. Before, I used to buy all the tabloids and see if I was in them.

If we are incapable of finding peace in ourselves, it is pointless to search elsewhere.