In this article, we want to share with you 80 inspirational inner peace quotes.
The modern world takes a heavy toll on all of us. Mental health issues are more common than ever before. Our lunch breaks become shorter, our weekends become extinct, and our vacations become something you put off for your retirement. For most of us feeling stressed, worried, anxious, and confused is the norm. And this is why inner peace has never been more crucial to our lives.
Inner peace is an internalized state of spiritual and mental peace. When the noise in your head becomes quieter, allowing you to see the space between your thoughts – that is inner peace.
Inner peace gives us the silence we need in a world of constant noise. It allows us to open our eyes inside our minds and clearly see the journey of our life.
Here is our collection of 80 inspirational inner peace quotes to help you find yours!
80 Inspirational Inner Peace Quotes
#1
“Do not let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace.” ~ Dalai Lama
#2
“Nothing can disturb your peace of mind unless you allow it to.” ~ Roy T. Bennett
#3
“Never respond to an angry person with a fiery comeback, even if he deserves it…Don’t allow his anger to become your anger.” ~ Bohdi Sanders
#4
“Learning to distance yourself from all the negativity is one of the greatest lessons to achieve inner peace.” ~ Roy T. Bennett
#5
“We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.” ~ Dalai Lama
#6
“The life of inner peace, being harmonious and without stress, is the easiest type of existence.” ~ Norman Vincent Peale
#7
“Nothing external to you has any power over you.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
#8
“Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
#9
“Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.” ~ Thomas Jefferson
#10
“If you are depressed you are living in the past, if you are anxious you are living in the future, if you are at peace, you are living in the present.” ~ Lao Tzu
#11
“Being relaxed, at peace with yourself, confident, emotionally neutral loose, and free-floating — these are the keys to successful performance in almost everything.” ~ Wayne Dyer
#12
“Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
#13
“Inner peace can be reached only when we practice forgiveness. Forgiveness is letting go of the past, and is therefore the means for correcting our misperceptions.” ~ Gerald G. Jampolsky
#14
“Every breath we take, every step we make, can be filled with peace, joy, and serenity.” ~ Thich Nhat Hanh
#15
“Don’t search for anything except peace. Try to calm the mind. Everything else will come on its own.” ~ Baba Hari Das
#16
“Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit. Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever, even if your whole world seems upset.” ~ Saint Francis de Sales
#17
“Peace begins with a smile.” ~ Mother Teresa
#18
“Peace can become a lens through which you see the world. Be it. Live it. Radiate it out. Peace is an inside job.” ~ Wayne Dyer
#19
“Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.” ~ John F. Kennedy
#20
“Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say that I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one. I hope someday you’ll join us and the world will be as one.” ~ John Lennon
#21
“It isn’t enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn’t enough to believe in it. One must work at it.” ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
#22
“You will find peace not by trying to escape your problems, but by confronting them courageously. You will find peace not in denial, but in victory.” ~ J. Donald Walters
#23
“You’ll never find peace of mind until you listen to your heart.” ~ George Michael
#24
“Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.” ~ Ronald Reagan
#25
“Love and peace of mind do protect us. They allow us to overcome the problems that life hands us. They teach us to survive… to live now… to have the courage to confront each day.” ~ Bernie Siegel
#26
“Peace is the result of retraining your mind to process life as it is, rather than as you think it should be.” ~ Wayne Dyer
#27
“No person, no place, and nothing has any power over us, for ‘we’ are the only thinkers in our mind. When we create peace and harmony and balance in our minds, we will find it in our lives.” ~ Louise Hay
#28
“We don’t realize that, somewhere within us all, there does exist a supreme self who is eternally at peace.” ~ Elizabeth Gilbert
#29
“Be still. it takes no effort to be still; it is utterly simple. When your mind is still, you have no name, you have no past, you have no relationships, you have no country, you have no spiritual attainment, you have no lack of spiritual attainment. There is just the presence of beingness with itself.” ~ Gangaji
#30
“You find peace not by rearranging the circumstances of your life, but by realizing who you are at the deepest level.” ~ Eckhart Tolle
#31
“If there’s no inner peace, people can’t give it to you. The husband can’t give it to you. Your children can’t give it to you. You have to give it to you.” ~ Linda Evans
#32
“Inner peace begins the moment you choose not to allow another person or event to control your emotions.” ~ Pema Chodron
#33
“The life of inner peace, being harmonious and without stress, is the easiest type of existence.” ~ Norman Vincent Peale
#34
“If you want peace, stop fighting. If you want peace of mind, stop fighting with your thoughts.” ~ Peter McWilliams
#35
“Chasing after the world brings chaos. Allowing it all to come to me, brings peace.” ~ Zen Gatha
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#36
“When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.” ~ Jimi Hendrix
#37
“But the self-controlled man, moving among objects, with his senses under restraint, and free from both attraction and repulsion, attains peace.” ~ Chinmayananda Saraswati
#38
“Don’t try to force anything. Let life be a deep let-go. God opens millions of flowers every day without forcing their buds.” ~ Osho
#39
“Learn to calm down the winds of your mind, and you will enjoy great inner peace.” ~ Remez Sasson
#40
“The mind can go in a thousand directions, but on this beautiful path, I walk in peace. With each step, the wind blows. With each step, a flower blooms.” ~ Thich Nhat Hanh
#41
“Feelings are just visitors; let them come and go.” ~ Mooji
#42
“If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having.” ~ Henry Miller
#43
“When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.” ~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
#44
“Ego says – Once everything falls into place, I’ll feel inner peace. Spirit says – Find your inner peace and then everything will fall into place.” ~ Marianne Williamson
#45
”Just slow down. Slow down your speech. Slow down your breathing. Slow down your walking. Slow down your eating. And let this slower, steadier pace perfume your mind. Just slow down.” ~ Doko
#46
“There will be calmness, tranquility, when one is free from external objects and is not perturbed.” ~ Bruce Lee
#47
“Remember the entrance to the sanctuary is inside you.” ~ Rumi
#48
“Meditation is not a way of making your mind quiet. It is a way of entering into the quiet that is already there – buried under the 50,000 thoughts the average person thinks every day.” ~ Deepak Chopra
#49
“When we understand clearly that inner peace is the real source of happiness, and how, through spiritual practice, we can experience progressively deeper levels of inner peace, we will develop tremendous enthusiasm to practice.” ~ Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
#50
“Fearlessness presupposes calmness and peace of mind.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
#51
“Compassion, tolerance, forgiveness and a sense of self-discipline are qualities that help us lead our daily lives with a calm mind.” ~ Dalai Lama
#52
“Look at a tree, a flower, a plant. Let your awareness rest upon it. How still they are, how deeply rooted in being. Allow nature to teach you stillness.” ~ Eckhart Tolle
#53
“When you’ve seen beyond yourself, then you may find, peace of mind is waiting there.” ~ George Harrison
#54
”The universe is not outside of you. Look inside yourself, everything that you want, you already are.” ~ Rumi
#55
“Anything is possible when you have inner peace.” ~ Anonymous
#56
“Accept what is. Heal and achieve inner peace.” ~ Sonia Ricotti
#57
“Peace of mind is that mental condition in which you have accepted the worst.” ~ Lin Yutang
#58
“No price is too great to pay for inner peace.” ~ Sri Chinmoy
#59
“Respect yourself enough to say – I deserve inner peace – and walk away from people and things that prevent you from attaining it.” ~ Jerico Silvers
#60
“Your inner peace is the greatest and most valuable treasure that you can discover.” ~ Akin Olokun
#61
“Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace.” ~ Robert J. Sawyer
#62
“Happiness is the new rich. Inner peace is the new success. Health is the new wealth. Kindness is the new cool.” ~ Anonymous
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#63
“You are the sky. Everything else is just the weather.” ~ Pema Chodron
#64
“All the things that truly matter, beauty, love, creativity, joy, and inner peace arise from beyond the mind.” ~ Eckhart Tolle
#65
“Inner peace can be seen as the ultimate benefit of practicing patience.” ~ Allan Lokos
#66
“Open your heart and invite God into every circumstance because when God enters the scene, miracles happen.” ~ Anonymous
#67
“To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life – bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live, then, only then, can you begin to find inner peace.” ~ Peace Pilgrim
#68
“When your life is governed by the Divine nature instead of the self-centered nature you will find inner peace.” ~ Anonymous
#69
“Without inner peace, outer peace is impossible.” ~ Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
#70
“Inner peace is priceless as it sprinkles everything you do with joy.” ~ Roz Fruchtman
#71
“Happiness doesn’t come from attaining luxuries. It comes from attaining inner peace.” ~ Anonymous
#72
“If it costs your inner peace, it is too expensive.” ~ Anonymous
#73
“Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace.” ~ Mike Ditka
#74
“There is a criterion by which you can judge whether the thoughts you are thinking and the things you are doing are right for you. The criterion is: Have they brought you inner peace?” ~ Peace Pilgrim
#75
“Possession of material riches, without inner peace, is like dying of thirst while bathing in a lake.” ~ Anonymous
#76
“A compassionate state of mind brings inner peace, and therefore a healthier body.” ~ Dalai Lama
#77
“Listen to the inner light; it will guide you. Listen to inner peace; it will feed you. Listen to inner love; it will transform you, it will divinize you, it will immortalize you.” ~ Sri Chinmoy
#78
“In this life, we are in a constant search for inner peace. We long for it in all aspects of our lives, both personally and professionally. The truth is that we cannot have inner peace without balance. It seems that having too much or too little of anything completely throws off our balance, therefore limiting our inner peace.” ~ Raheem DeVaughn
#79
“For me, it is essential to have the inner peace and serenity of prayer in order to listen to the silence of God, which speaks to us, in our personal life and the history of our times, of the power of love.” ~ Adolfo Perez Esquivel
#80
“When you make genuine contact with your inner Spirit, there is an inner joy, an inner peace, that takes over.” ~ Michael Bernard Beckwith
We hope you are inspired by these inner peace quotes as much as we are!