Mental Serenity Quotes

If a man doesn't find ease in himself, 'tis in vain to seek it elsewhere.

I'm at peace with my family, my friends, myself and God so there's really nothing else that I worry about.

Try to keep your soul always in peace and quiet, always ready for whatever our Lord may wish to work in you. It is certainly a higher virtue of the soul, and a greater grace, to be able to enjoy the Lord in different times and different places than in only one.

Peace is your natural state. It is the mind that obstructs the natural state.

As our own peace of mind grows, so the atmosphere around us becomes more peaceful.

I truly believe there is a field of peace within and that it can be enlivened and brought to the surface to be enjoyed by all.

I don't want my faith level to go up or down. And so I don't fear.

The educated man had throughout the ages found a way to covert passionate activity into silent and motionless pleasure. He can sit still in a room and not perish.

Material development alone does not yield genuine inner peace.

When I create an image that helps someone - even just myself - find peace, then I've attained my goal.

The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.

For piety lies not in being often seen turning a veiled head to stones, nor in approaching every altar, nor in lying prostratebefore the temples of the gods, nor in sprinkling altars with the blood of beastsbut rather in being able to look upon all things with a mind at peace.

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

Malice and hatred are very fretting and vexatious, and apt to make our minds sore and uneasy; but he that can moderate these affections will find ease in his mind.

Full of troubles, the mind is still the only Garden of Delight.

If there's no inner peace, people can't give it to you. The husband can't give it to you. Your children can't give it to you. You have to give it to you.

Ultimate peace begins within; when we find peace within there will be no more conflict, nor more occasion for war.

Nothing in the world can take my peace away from me.

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

We often see people every day searching in the wrong places for the things they desire. Too many of our fellow humans try to find peace and happiness in drugs, alcohol, and sensual excitement. And it doesn't work. If we desire peace, the first place to look is within ourselves. Peace isn't an external condition as much as an internal context.

A man becomes calm in the measure that he understands himself as a thought-evolved being. For such knowledge necessitates the understanding of others as the result of thought, and as he develops a right understanding, and sees ever more clearly the internal relations of things by the action of cause and effect, he ceases to fuss, fume, worry, and grieve. He remains poised, steadfast, serene.

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?

Happiness comes through taming the mind; without taming the mind there is no way to be happy

Those who worship God only, can get rid of anxiety of mind; others cannot.