Quotes about Inner peace
Often we are so burdened and overwhelmed with other thoughts, images, and concerns that it may take a long time before God's Word has cleared all that away and gets through to us.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
I am a human being, not a human doing. Don't equate your self-worth with how well you do things in life. You aren't what you do. If you are what you do, then when you don't . . , you aren't.
— Wayne Dyer
I release all feelings of worry and guilt. Throughout life, the two most futile emotions are guilt for what has been done and worry about what might be done.
— Wayne Dyer
The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
You're always with yourself, so you might as well enjoy the company.
— Diane von Furstenberg
Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention.
— Abraham Lincoln
Inner conflict and turmoil often result in conflict with others, so we must achieve inner peace to effectively pursue peace with others.
— Jerry Bridges
No. Have it here where it is quiet. You and your quiet, said Brett. What is it men feel about quiet? We like it, said the count. Like you like your noise, my dear.
— Ernest Hemingway
Ultimately, we have just one moral duty: to reclaim large areas of peace in ourselves, more and more peace, and to reflect it toward others. And the more peace there is in us, the more peace there will also be in our troubled world.
— Etty Hillesum
Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest we take between two deep breaths, or the turning inwards in prayer for five short minutes.
— Etty Hillesum
Humility is perfect quietness of heart. It is to expect nothing, to wonder at nothing that is done to me, to feel nothing done against me. It is to be at rest when nobody praises me, and when I am blamed or despised. It is to have a blessed home in the Lord, where I can go in and shut the door, and kneel to my Father in secret, and am at peace as in a deep sea of calmness, when all around and above is trouble.
— Andrew Murray
A wise person seeks to make peace with the truth, especially when it's personal and even when it hurts.
— Andy Andrews