Peace Quotes

Your own Self-realization is the greatest service you can render the world.

Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.

Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.

Peace at home, peace in the world.

All real living is meeting.

The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.

The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.

The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.

Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.

To understand the immeasurable, the mind must be extraordinarily quiet, still.

Why fear when I am here?

The best fighter is never angry.

The birds have vanished into the sky, and now the last cloud drains away.

We sit together, the mountain and I, until only the mountain remains.

Accept everything just the way it is.

Be detached from desire your whole life long.

Resentment and complaint are appropriate neither for oneself nor others.

An old silent pond — A frog jumps into the pond — Splash! Silence again.

The temple bell stops — but the sound keeps coming out of the flowers.

Enlightenment is like the moon reflected on the water.

They say doing nothing is very difficult. You never know when you're finished.

Smile, breathe and go slowly.

The present moment is the only time over which we have dominion.

Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.

Peace is present right here and now, in ourselves and in everything we do and see.

Breathing in, I calm my body. Breathing out, I smile.

Ah! There is nothing like staying at home, for real comfort.

I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.

There is a pleasure in the pathless woods.

The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tune without the words - and never stops at all.

You have power over your mind — not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.

Silence is a source of great strength.

Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky.

Do your work, then step back. The only path to serenity.

True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.

We prefer self-government with danger to servitude in tranquility.

Flow with whatever may happen, and let your mind be free: stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate.

When we plant trees, we plant the seeds of peace and hope.

The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes within the souls of people when they realize their relationship, their oneness, with the universe and all its powers.

I wish I could show you, when you are lonely or in darkness, the astonishing light of your own being.

To establish a heart for Heaven and Earth, to secure a destiny for the people, to carry on the lost teachings of the sages, to open peace for all generations to come.

My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.

Silence is the absolute poise or balance of body, mind, and spirit.

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.

Listen more often to things than to beings.

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.

All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.

Face it, accept it, deal with it, let it go.

All problems of existence are essentially problems of harmony.

Live quietly in the moment and see the beauty of all before you. The future will take care of itself.

Let nothing disturb you, let nothing frighten you. All things pass away; God never changes.

On the empty mountain no one is seen, but the sound of voices is heard.

Remember that sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck.

I pluck chrysanthemums beneath the eastern hedge, and gaze at ease at the southern mountains.

Silence is also conversation.

All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well.

There is nothing you can see that is not a flower; there is nothing you can think that is not the moon.

If you want to travel the Way of Buddhas and Zen masters, then expect nothing, seek nothing, and grasp nothing.

Meditation in the midst of activity is a thousand times superior to meditation in stillness.

Peace is not an absence of war; it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

The thief left it behind — the moon at my window.

There is surely nothing other than the single purpose of the present moment.

Deeper and deeper I go, into the green mountains.

Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves.

The longest journey is the journey inwards.

Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.

Letting go gives us freedom, and freedom is the only condition for happiness.

If you let go a little, you will have a little peace. If you let go a lot, you will have a lot of peace. If you let go completely, you will have complete peace.

Do not try to become anything. Do not make yourself into anything. Do not be a meditator. Do not become enlightened. When you sit, let it be. When you walk, let it be. Grasp at nothing. Resist nothing.

If the problem can be solved, why worry? If the problem cannot be solved, worrying will do no good.

You will find rest from vain fancies if you perform every act in life as though it were your last.

When you engage in fulfilling the needs of others, your own needs are fulfilled as a by-product.

Don't demand that things happen as you wish, but wish that they happen as they do happen, and you will go on well.

Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.

Imagine all the people living life in peace.

There is a place where the sidewalk ends and before the street begins.

I have come not to teach but to awaken. Understand therefore that I lay down no precepts.

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

World peace must develop from inner peace.

Conflict cannot survive without your participation.

Any person capable of angering you becomes your master; he can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him.

When I am silent, I have thunder hidden inside.

You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.

Talent is formed in stillness, character in the world.

We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.

Happiness depends on leisure; for we are busy to have leisure, and make war to live in peace.

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.

Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.

Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.

Calm mind brings inner strength and self-confidence, so that's very important for good health.

Peace is the result of retraining your mind to process life as it is, rather than as you think it should be.

Every breath we take, every step we make, can be filled with peace, joy and serenity.

An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.

We don't make mistakes, just happy little accidents.

Sleep is the best meditation.

When the choice is to be right or to be kind, always make the choice that brings peace.

Do not seek to have events happen as you want them to, but instead want them to happen as they do happen, and your life will go well.

How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.

Don't do any task in order to get it over with. Resolve to do each job in a relaxed way, with all your attention.

The present moment is the only moment available to us, and it is the door to all moments.

Control thy passions lest they take vengeance on thee.

Silence is the language of God, all else is poor translation.

Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.

Breathing in, I calm body and mind. Breathing out, I smile.

He is the happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.

Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that caused it.

We make war that we may live in peace.

Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs.