Calm Quotes

"Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow."

"Peace begins with a smile."

"Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means."

"If you want peace, stop fighting. If you want peace of mind, stop fighting with your thoughts."

"Nothing can bring you peace but yourself."

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

"Do not let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace."

"Nobody can bring you peace but yourself."

"When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace."

"Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without."

"You find peace not by rearranging the circumstances of your life, but by realizing who you are at the deepest level."

"If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other."

"The life of inner peace, being harmonious and without stress, is the easiest type of existence."

"Peace is always beautiful."

"Set peace of mind as your highest goal, and organize your life around it."

"Inner peace begins the moment you choose not to allow another person or event to control your emotions."

"Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace."

"First keep the peace within yourself, then you can also bring peace to others."

"The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war."

"Peace is not something you wish for. It is something you make, something you do, something you are, and something you give away."

"What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family."

"Patience is the calm acceptance that things can happen in a different order than the one you have in mind."

"Today I choose joy. Today I choose peace. Today I choose me."

"The morning shines forever. Promise yourself to be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind."

"After a storm comes a calm."

"I've had to calm down, I have a kid! It is amazing. It's the best thing ever. Nothing better than it."

"I think of my peace paintings as one long poem, with each painting being a single stanza."

"Beautiful music is the art of the prophets that can calm the agitations of the soul it is one of the most magnificent and delightful presents God has given us."

"There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit and there is no true beauty without the signatures of these graces in the very countenance."

"God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference."

"God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other."

"I think it's naive to pray for world peace if we're not going to change the form in which we live."

"Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace."

"He who has faith has... an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well - even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly."

"Let's drink to the spirit of gallantry and courage that made a strange Heaven out of unbelievable Hell, and let's drink to the hope that one day this country of ours, which we love so much, will find dignity and greatness and peace again."

"Peace comes when you talk to the guy you most hate. And that's where the courage of a leader comes, because when you sit down with your enemy, you as a leader must already have very considerable confidence from your own constituency."

"Let a new earth rise. Let another world be born. Let a bloody peace be written in the sky. Let a second generation full of courage issue forth let a people loving freedom come to growth."

"Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace."

"I inherited that calm from my father, who was a farmer. You sow, you wait for good or bad weather, you harvest, but working is something you always need to do."

"The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books."

"Establishing lasting peace is the work of education all politics can do is keep us out of war."

"Deep experience is never peaceful."

"Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all."

"There are many things that are essential to arriving at true peace of mind, and one of the most important is faith, which cannot be acquired without prayer."

"Although a man may wear fine clothing, if he lives peacefully and is good, self-possessed, has faith and is pure and if he does not hurt any living being, he is a holy man."

"I think if you exercise, your state of mind - my state of mind - is usually more at ease, ready for more mental challenges. Once I get the physical stuff out of the way it always seems like I have more calmness and better self-esteem."

"One of the things I've always enjoyed is moving around and staying fit. Physicality is such a big part of being an actor, but it's also about stillness and silence."

"Forgiveness is not always easy. At times, it feels more painful than the wound we suffered, to forgive the one that inflicted it. And yet, there is no peace without forgiveness."

"When I am able to resist the temptation to judge others, I can see them as teachers of forgiveness in my life, reminding me that I can only have peace of mind when I forgive rather than judge."

"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."