Quotes About Peace

Through regular practice of concentration and meditation you attain clarity of mind, increased grasping power, retentive memory, increased intelligence, confidence, peace, optimism and control of the senses

A desire arises in the mind. It is satisfied immediately another comes. In the interval which separates two desires a perfect calm reigns in the mind. It is at this moment freed from all thought, love or hate. Complete peace equally reigns between two mental waves.

Complete peace equally reigns between two mental waves.

Pour obtenir une parfaite relaxation, trois méthodes sont employées par les yogis : physique, mentale et spirituelle. Aucune relaxation n'est complète sans atteindre la relaxation spirituelle que seuls connaissent les yogis.

You need not worry or make yourself sleepless about the world; it will go on without you.

The mind is in its own nature when it is calm. The moment you can calm it, that [very] moment you will know the truth.

All who have actually attained any real religious experience never wrangle over the form in which the different religions are expressed. They know that the soul of all religions is the same and so they have no quarrel with anybody just because he or she does not speak in the same tongue.

When he has become perfectly satisfied, he has no more cravings

He who in the midst of intense activity finds himself in the greatest calmness, and in the greatest peace finds intense activity, that is the greatest [Yogi as well as the wisest man]" (note 2).

Where none sees another, where it is all One, there is none to be miserable, none to be unhappy (note 48).

I feel bound to respect Ronald Reagan, as every American should - not least because he chose a career of public service when he could have made a lot more money doing something else, and not least because he took genuine risks for peace.

Sometimes, there is not a lot of pressure, so you can relax.

One of the best things to do sometimes is simply to be.

Sometimes I get lonely, but it's nice to be alone.

Sometimes even on an hourly basis we need to keep praying and keep our peace in God and remind ourselves on the promises of God that never fails.

I mean, I don't really go out at night in terms of noisy, busy places; I prefer more of a quiet corner somewhere.

Well, we have this place in Telluride, Colorado. It's somewhere I can just get away and relax and think.

You are in the back of your head somewhere and you want to close your eyes and go away.

I love Central Park. I feel like I am somewhere else.

I will not have my son grow up in a tension-filled home.

When I feel comfortable, I just like to sing and hum, and I don't even know I'm doing it. But sometimes someone will come over to me like, 'I love that song you were singing, but it's distracting.'

I'm a songwriter. I need silence to hear the melodies, so I don't fill the days with a lot of sound.

I'm grateful to songwriting and recovery to bringing me to a place of peace.

You learn you have to accept the way things are, and the sooner you accept them, the sooner you become at peace with them, and then the things start to get better.