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Quotes About Self

We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.
~ Dalai Lama XIV
There is only one decision you need to make: You are either working at your Freedom or you are accepting your bondage.
~ Robert Adams
Peace must begin within self before there can come action or self application in a way to bring peace-even in thine own household, in thine own vicinity, in thine own state or nation.
~ Edgar Cayce
God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.
~ C. S. Lewis
If you are not at peace with yourself then you cannot spread peace.
~ Tariq Ramadan
Before peace between the nations, we have to find peace inside that small nation which is our own being.
~ B.K.S. Iyengar
You are seeking joy and peace in far-off places. But the spring of joy is in your heart. The haven of peace is in yourself.
~ Sathya Sai Baba
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
~ Thomas Merton
You can gain reconciliation from your enemies, but you can only gain peace from yourself.
~ Rubin Carter
Dwell in peace in the home of your own being, and the Messenger of Death will not be able to touch you.
~ Guru Nanak
In peace and silence, the skin of the 'I' dissolves and the inner and the outer become one.
~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
The voice in your head is like a wild horse taking you wherever it wants to go...When the voice in your head finally stops talking, you experience inner peace.
~ Miguel Angel Ruiz
Our capacity to make peace with another person and with the world depends very much on our capacity to make peace with ourselves.
~ Nhat Hanh
Maybe there is no peace in this world. I don't know ... But I know as long as we live we must stay true to ourselves.
~ Kirk Douglas
Rushing around, hoping to find peace of mind anywhere other than within yourself, is like looking for your heart in someone else's body!
~ Guy Finley
If half a century of living has taught me anything at all, it has taught me that nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
~ Dale Carnegie
If I feel like I've done the best that I can or conducted myself in the most constructive way that I can in a situation, then I feel peace.
~ Adam Yauch
If we ourselves remain angry and then sing world peace, it has little meaning. First, our individual self must learn peace. This we can practice. Then we can teach the rest of the world.
~ Dalai Lama
I can only bring peace to my children when I possess it myself.
~ Katrina Kenison
In humility is the greatest freedom. As long as you have to defend the imaginary self that you think is important, you lose your peace of heart.
~ Thomas Merton
Peace is wonderful, but / ecstatic dance is more fun / and less narcissistic
~ Rumi
I am not the Beatles. I'm me. Paul isn't the Beatles...The Beatles are the Beatles. Separately, they are separate.
~ John Lennon
Peace has been variously defined, but perhaps we might think of it as 'harmony within one's self, and with God and man.'
~ Marion G. Romney
A man must seek his happiness and inward peace from objects which cannot be taken away from him.
~ Wilhelm von Humboldt