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Quotes About Reflection

Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.
~ Benjamin Franklin
Peace can be a lens through which you see the world. Be it. Live it. Radiate it out. Peace is an inside job.
~ Wayne Dyer
I wanted to get that sense of peace and even boredom that comes with long familiarity.
~ Debbie Reynolds
Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.
~ Dag Hammarskjold
Keep your heart in peace and let nothing trouble you, not even your faults. You must humble yourself and amend them peacefully, without being discouraged or cast down, for God's dwelling is in peace.
~ Margaret Mary Alacoque
When you make peace with yourself, the world will mirror back that same level of peace.
~ Debbie Ford
Nobody can keep on being angry if she looks into the heart of a pansy for a little while.
~ L.M. Montgomery
True and lasting inner peace can never be found in external things. It can only be found within in. And then, once we find and nurture it with ourselves, it radiates outward.
~ Gautama Buddha
Never speak out of anger, Never act out of fear, Never choose from impatience, But wait... and peace will appear.
~ Guy Finley
Lose yourself in nature and find peace
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
When a man has made peace within himself, he will be able to make peace in the whole world.
~ Martin Buber
We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.
~ Dalai Lama XIV
We are never more than one grateful thought away from peace of heart.
~ David Steindl-Rast
Let your modesty be a sufficient incitement, yea, an exhortation to everyone to be at peace on their merely looking at you.
~ Ignatius of Loyola
Rest and be thankful.
~ William Wordsworth
We each need to make peace with our own memories. We have all done things that make us flinch.
~ Surya Das
Where there is peace and meditation, there is neither anxiety nor doubt.
~ Saint Francis de Sales
He who does not desire much more from things than knowledge of them easily makes peace with his soul.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
I had a tough career. I then resolved to find peace. And, I finally found Islam.
~ Nicolas Anelka
Nothing we do has the quickness, the sureness, the deep intelligence living at peace would have.
~ Denise Levertov
Trees give peace to the souls of men.
~ Nora Waln
Peace can be reached through meditation on the knowledge which dreams give. Peace can also be reached through concentration upon that which is dearest to the heart.
~ Patanjali
For the entire Desiderata go to Inspirational Poems page
~ Max Ehrmann
Tragedy stays alive by feeling what's been done to us, while peace comes alive by living with the results.
~ Mark Nepo