Gretel Ehrlich Quotes

Happiness, true happiness, is an inner quality. It is a state of mind. If your mind is at peace, you are happy. If your mind is at peace, but you have nothing else, you can be happy. If you have everything the world can give - pleasure, possessions, power - but lack peace of mind, you can never be happy.

There's no shame in longing for peace.

Peace-not passion, not personal possessions, not personal accomplishments nor happiness-is one of the greatest blessings a man can receive.

Thou seest how few be the things, the which if a man has at his command his life flows gently on and is divine.

I'm on my way to happiness, where I can find some peace and rest.

there comes a time when ambition ceases to burn, or romance to stir, and the highest cry of the human heart is for peace.

I would rather sit still in a state of peace on a stone than ride in the motor-car of a multi-millionaire and feel the peacelessness of the multi-millionaire poisoning me.

Peace consists, very largely, in the fact of desiring it with all one's soul.

Real peace is not in power, money, or weapons, but in deep inner peace.

Because when the world quiets to the sound of your own breathing, we all want the same things: comfort, love, and a peaceful heart.

Those who have had none of the cares of this life to harass and disturb them, have been obliged to have recourse to the hopes and fears of the next to vary the prospect before them.

since God has appointed one remedy for all the evils in the world and that is a contented spirit.

Contentment ... has an internal quietness of heart that gladly submits to God in all circumstances.

A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.

To be happy is only to have freed one's soul from the unrest of unhappiness.

How blessed are some people, whose lives have no fears, no dreads; to whom sleep is a blessing that comes nightly, and brings nothing but sweet dreams.

All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.

Peace, truthfully, is how you feel inside.

When I leave here, when my final day on this earth is up, I want to leave in peace. I want to have peace in my heart.

The best way to explain it is that I'm not yearning anymore, on or off the course. I appreciate what I have. I feel like I'm blessed.

He will easily be content and at peace, whose conscience is pure.

That which is false troubles the heart, but truth brings joyous tranquillity.

I'm at a point in my life where I have something solid now. I'm a peaceful person, and I want to be surrounded by peace no matter what I'm doing.

I feel happy and secure when I'm on my bed with a good book... I forget everything which is terrible in our world.

I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief... For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.