Inspirational Finding Peace In Busy World Quotes

This post is repost. It was original posted on Jan 2011 here on Motivational Quotes HeadQuarters Site.

Many of our life can be chaotic and stressful at the time. There is a saying: “when it rains, it pours!” and “Misery Loves company”. I am having share of my life issues at the moment that I feel overwhelm despite trying to live calm and simple life. I am sure many of us, have been in situation like this once in our life, sometimes more. I have written about finding ways out of overwhelm and simplifying life before.

Today I want to share how to find peace, with noise and chaos around us and still function. While, I am going through this phase, these quotes have helped me and inspired me and I am sure it will inspire and motivate you as well. We can not change certain aspects of our life but we can change our attitude towards it for positive and upbeat outlook!

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Resource Books to Find Peace in Your Life:

Finding Peace By Jean Vanier: One of our deepest human desires and needs is to live in peace. We all yearn for peace, but what is it exactly? How do we find it, and how can we bring peace to our lives and our communities? Jean Vanier reflects on recent world events, identifying the sources of conflict and fear within and among individuals, communities, and nations that thwart us in our quest for peace.

21 Ways to Finding Peace and Happiness: Overcoming Anxiety, Fear, and Discontentment Every Day by Joyce Meyer: In today’s world, peace is hard to come by. When personal desires are followed, serenity is forfeited. By submitting one’s life to God, a peace-filled life is ensured.

A smile is the beginning of peace.
– Mother Teresa

Whenever you are sincerely pleased, you are nourished.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

End each day with thoughts of peace.  Begin each day with
thoughts of peace.  Continue thinking thoughts of peace
throughout your precious day and happiness will be yours.

Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek but a means by
which we arrive at that goal.
– Martin Luther King, Jr.

When we are present in each moment, the past gently rolls up
behind us and the future slowly unravels before us.
– Rev Richard Levy

Everything you do can be done better from a place of relaxation.
– Stephen C. Paul

Life is lived in the present.  Yesterday is gone.  Tomorrow is
yet to be.  Today is the miracle.

The quieter you become the more you can hear.

He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with
the world.
– Marcus Aurelius

Love the moment and the energy of that moment will spread
beyond all boundaries into blissful, peaceful happiness.

Nothing matters very much and few things matter at all.
– Earl Balfour

Our life is frittered away by detail . . . simplify, simplify.
– Henry David Thoreau

Seize every day as an adventure and your spirit will soar when
you discover the wonderful surprises life has to offer.

True peace is found in this moment. Acceptance is the 1st step
to inner calm.

It isn’t enough to talk about peace, one must believe it.
And it isn’t enough to to believe in it, one must work for it.
– Eleanor Roosevelt

The poor long for riches, the rich long for heaven, but the
wise long for a state of tranquility.
– Swami Rama

There is no greatness where there is not simplicity.
– Leo Tolstoy

Don’t fill your time with worry – fix what you can and let the
rest take care of itself.

Those who are at war with others are not at peace with
themselves.
– William Hazlett

In acceptance, there is peace.

Satisfaction can be found in the simplest tasks.

Make the most of every moment.

Honor the past.
Live in the present.
Create the future.

The thief of the past and the thief of the future, rob us of the joy
of the peace of the present moment.

Peace of mind is attained not by ignoring problems, but by
solving them.
– Raymond Hull

Relaxation comes from letting go of tense thoughts.
– Frances Wilshire

There is time for everything. – Thomas Edison

The past is history. The future is a mystery and this moment is
a gift. That is why this moment is called “the present”.

Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, it empties today
of its strength.
– Corrie Ten Boom

Wherever we are, what we hear is mostly noise. When we ignore
it, it disturbs us. When we listen to it, we find it fascinating.
– John Cage

A soft voice is the sound of peace.

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Yet More Abraham Lincoln Quotes

Abraham Lincoln was US President, leader and very much inspiring person for many. You can more about his life fiction and nonfiction by clicking here. Abraham Lincoln.

There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, “Truth is the daughter of Time.”
Abraham Lincoln

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
Abraham Lincoln

Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.
Abraham Lincoln

These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert, to fleece the people.
Abraham Lincoln

It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one’s mouth and remove all doubt.
Abraham Lincoln

Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.
Abraham Lincoln

These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.
Abraham Lincoln

Knavery and flattery are blood relations.
Abraham Lincoln

Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln

Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
Abraham Lincoln

That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.
Abraham Lincoln

This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.
Abraham Lincoln

Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.
Abraham Lincoln

The assertion that “all men are created equal” was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use.
Abraham Lincoln

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln

Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.
Abraham Lincoln

The ballot is stronger than the bullet.
Abraham Lincoln

To give victory to the right, not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots only, are necessary.
Abraham Lincoln

The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln

To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.
Abraham Lincoln

The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.
Abraham Lincoln

Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.
Abraham Lincoln

Lets have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.
Abraham Lincoln

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.
Abraham Lincoln

We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.
Abraham Lincoln

The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.
Abraham Lincoln

We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.
Abraham Lincoln

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.
Abraham Lincoln

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More Abraham Lincoln Quotes

Abraham Lincoln was US President, leader and very much inspiring person for many. You can more about his life fiction and nonfiction by clicking here. Abraham Lincoln.

As our case is new, we must think and act anew.
Abraham Lincoln

I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.
Abraham Lincoln

If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
Abraham Lincoln

Avoid popularity if you would have peace.
Abraham Lincoln

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.
Abraham Lincoln

If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.
Abraham Lincoln

Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets.
Abraham Lincoln

I can make more generals, but horses cost money.
Abraham Lincoln

If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
Abraham Lincoln

Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.
Abraham Lincoln

I care not much for a man’s religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.
Abraham Lincoln

If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.
Abraham Lincoln

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren’t very new at all.
Abraham Lincoln

I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end… I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.
Abraham Lincoln

If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it.
Abraham Lincoln

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
Abraham Lincoln

I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
Abraham Lincoln

If you call a tail a leg, how many legs has a dog? Five? No, calling a tail a leg don’t make it a leg.
Abraham Lincoln

Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln

I do the very best I know how – the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.
Abraham Lincoln

Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.
Abraham Lincoln

Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.
Abraham Lincoln

I don’t know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.
Abraham Lincoln

In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong.
Abraham Lincoln

Don’t interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.
Abraham Lincoln

Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God’s side, for God is always right.
Abraham Lincoln

The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.
Abraham Lincoln

In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.
Abraham Lincoln

Some single mind must be master, else there will be no agreement in anything.
Abraham Lincoln

The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.
Abraham Lincoln

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Be Happy, Don’t Worry Quotes

One of the hardest thing for is not to worry, as I tend to worry about many things, some rational and most that are not. Here are some ways I can tell and inspire myself to stop worrying for sometimes so I can be happy and enjoy the moment.

Drag your thoughts away from your troubles… by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it. -Mark Twain

Ask yourself this question:
“Will this matter a year from now?”
-Richard Carlson, writing in Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff

Let us be of good cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which will never happen. -James Russel Lowell

Don’t waste your life in doubts and fears: spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour’s duties will be the best preparation for the hours or ages that follow it.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

If I had my life to live over, I would perhaps have more actual troubles but I’d have fewer imaginary ones. -Don Herold

Today is the tomorrow we worried about yesterday. -Author Unknown

Do not anticipate trouble or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight. ~Benjamin Franklin

Be just, and fear not.
Let all the ends thou aim’st at be thy country’s,
Thy God’s and truth’s.
-William Shakespeare

Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy. ~Leo Buscaglia

Never let life’s hardships disturb you … no one can avoid problems, not even saints or sages.
-Nichiren Daishonen

If you can’t sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It’s the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep. -Dale Carnegie

It is not work that kills men, it is worry. Work is healthy; you can hardly put more on a man than he can bear. But worry is rust upon the blade. It is not movement that destroys the machinery, but friction.
-Henry Ward Beecher

Troubles are a lot like people – they grow bigger if you nurse them. -Author Unknown

Surely there is something in the unruffled calm of nature that overawes our little anxieties and doubts; the sight of the deep-blue sky and the clustering stars above seems to impart a quiet to the mind.
-Jonathan Edwards

Happiness Books To Read:

Happy: Simple Steps to Get the Most Out of Life
Happy for No Reason: 7 Steps to Being Happy from the Inside Out
100 Simple Secrets of Happy People, The: What Scientists Have Learned and How You Can Use It

There are many how to be happy books that also helps worrier like myself. Check out for yourself here.

If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
-E. Joseph Cossman

I keep the telephone of my mind open to peace, harmony, health, love and abundance. Then, whenever doubt, anxiety or fear try to call me, they keep getting a busy signal – and soon they’ll forget my number. -Edith Armstrong

Imagine every day to be the last of a life surrounded with hopes, cares, anger and fear. The hours that come unexpectedly will be much the more grateful.
-Horace

Nerves provide me with energy. They work for me. It’s when I don’t have them, when I feel at ease, that I get worried. -Mike Nichols

The mind that is anxious about future events is miserable.
-Seneca

I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief…. For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free. -Wendell Berry, “The Peace of Wild Things”

Let us be of good cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those that never happen.
-James Russel Lowell

People gather bundles of sticks to build bridges they never cross. -Author Unknown

Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each.
-Henry David Thoreau

You can’t wring your hands and roll up your sleeves at the same time. -Pat Schroeder

It is the trouble that never comes that causes the loss of sleep.
-Chas. Austin Bates

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
-Elbert Hubbard, The Note Book, 1927

How much pain have cost us the evils that have never happened.
-Thomas Jefferson

Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it gets you nowhere. -Glenn Turner

We also deem those happy, who from the experience of life, have learned to bear its ills and without descanting on their weight.
-Junvenal

People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.
-George Bernard Shaw, “Family Affection,” Parents and Children, 1914

Thus each person by his fears gives wings to rumor, and, without any real source of apprehension, men fear what they themselves have imagined.
-Lucan

Somehow our devils are never quite what we expect when we meet them face to face. -Nelson DeMille

I never think of the future – it comes soon enough.
-Albert Einstein

We experience moments absolutely free from worry. These brief respites are called panic.
-Cullen Hightower

He either fears his fate too much,
Or his deserts are small,
Who dares not put it to the touch
To gain or lose it all.
-Marquis of Montrose

It only seems as if you are doing something when you’re worrying. -Lucy Maud Montgomery

Finding Peace Quotes

We are living too hectic and busy life with constant cell phone, iphones, televisions, computer and other noises in life, peace is something we are craving secretly inside. Slowing down and taking time to smell roses sounds like a wonderful things to do, but many time we have things to do, chore to finish and job to do before next day. While, no one take away the work, take time to read these motivational quotes about finding peace and you may just get a little bit of sanity and peace back. Good luck.

Peace Quotes:

Peace of mind is not a goal I need achieve.  It’s a place inside I never want to leave.  Close my eyes, I still my thoughts and then I say I will choose to live in peace today. – Robert Alan

There is no trust more sacred than the one the world holds with children. There is no duty more important than ensuring that their rights are respected, that their welfare is protected, that their lives are free from fear and want and that they grow up in peace.
– Kofi Annan

As human beings we all want to be happy and free from misery. We have learned that the key to happiness is inner peace. The greatest obstacles to inner peace are disturbing emotions such as anger, attachment, fear and suspicion, while love and compassion and a sense of universal responsibility are the sources of peace and happiness. – Dalai Lama

Peace is a resistance to the terrible satisfactions of war.
-Judith Butler

Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without. – Buddha

Better than a thousand hollow words
Is one word that brings peace.

Better than a thousand hollow verses
Is one verse that brings peace.

Better than a hundred hollow lines
Is one line of the law, bringing peace.

-Gautama Buddha

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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. – St. Francis de Sales

There never was a good war, or a bad peace.
-Benjamin Franklin

Peace of mind is not a goal I need achieve. It’s a place inside I never want to leave. Close my eyes, I still my thoughts and then I say I will choose to live in peace today. – Robert Alan

The only way to abolish war is to make peace heroic.
-James Hinton

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

peacebookThe situation of the world is still like this. People completely identify with one side, one ideology. To understand the suffering and the fear of a citizen of the Soviet Union, we have to become one with him or her. To do so is dangerous — we will be suspected by both sides. But if we don’t do it, if we align ourselves with one side or the other, we will lose our chance to work for peace. Reconciliation is to understand both sides, to go to one side and describe the suffering being endured by the other side, and then to go to the other side and describe the suffering being endured by the first side. Doing only that will be a great help for peace.
-Thich Nhat Hanh, Being Peace

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 Jampolsky

Blessed are the peacemakers; for they shall be called the children of God.
-Yeshua (Jesus Christ)

Acceptance of others, their looks, their behaviors, their beliefs, bring you an inner peace and tranquillity — instead of anger and resentment. – Unknown

Maybe tomorrow when He looks down
Every green field and every town
All of his children every nation
There’ll be peace and good, brotherhood…
Crystal blue persuasion
-Tommy James

We can only help make our lives and our world more peaceful, when we ourselves feel peace. Peace already exists within each of us, if we only allow ourselves to feel its comfort. Peace of mind begins when we stop thinking about how far we have to go, or how hard the road has been, and just let ourselves feel peace. Peace of mind gives us the strength to keep trying and keep walking along the path that we KNOW is right for our lives. – Robert Alan

I do not want the peace that passeth understanding. I want the understanding which bringeth peace.
-Helen Keller, as quoted in Henry More

Meditation is not a way to enlightenment, Nor is it a method of achieving anything at all. It is peace itself. It is the actualization of wisdom, The ultimate truth of the oneness of all things. – Dogen

True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.
-Martin Luther King, Jr.

A quiet mind is all you need. All else will happen rightly, once your mind is quiet. As the sun on rising makes the world active, so does self-awareness affect changes in the mind. In the light of calm and steady self-awareness inner energies wake up and work miracles without effort on your part. – Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

All we are saying is give peace a chance.
-John Lennon in “Give Peace A Chance”

When the restless activity of your mind slows down, when your thoughts stop rushing like waves on a windy day, then you will start getting glimpses of the sweet taste of inner peace. – Remez Sasson

Peace Finding Books:

Finding Peace By Jean Vanier: One of our deepest human desires and needs is to live in peace. We all yearn for peace, but what is it exactly? How do we find it, and how can we bring peace to our lives and our communities? Jean Vanier reflects on recent world events, identifying the sources of conflict and fear within and among individuals, communities, and nations that thwart us in our quest for peace.

21 Ways to Finding Peace and Happiness: Overcoming Anxiety, Fear, and Discontentment Every Day by Joyce Meyer: In today’s world, peace is hard to come by. When personal desires are followed, serenity is forfeited. By submitting one’s life to God, a peace-filled life is ensured.

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Motivational Quotes From Dalai Lama

Motivational and inspirational quotes from wise man Dalai Lama, He simply amazes me with his wisdom and his teaching about peace and contentedness. Dalai Lama is one of wisest leader who inspires many of us to live better.

My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.
~ Dalai Lama

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
~ Dalai Lama

We humans have existed in our present form for about a hundred thousand years. I believe that if during this time the human mind had been primarily controlled by anger and hatred, our overall population would have decreased. But today, despite all our wars, we find that the human population is greater than ever. This clearly indicates to me that love and compassion predominate in the world. And this is why unpleasant events are “news”; compassionate activities are so much a part of daily life that they are taken for granted and , therefore, largely ignored. – Dalai Lama

I myself feel, and also tell other Buddhists that the question of Nirvana will come later.
There is not much hurry. -Dalai Lama

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.- Dalai Lama

If in day to day life you lead a good life, honesty, with love, with compassion, with less selfishness, then automatically it will lead to Nirvana. – Dalai Lama

If the love within your mind is lost and you see other beings as enemies, then no matter how much knowledge or education or material comfort you have, only suffering and confusion will ensue. – Dalai Lama

True compassion is not just an emotional response but a firm commitment founded on reason. – Dalai Lama

If the love within your mind is lost and you see other beings as enemies, then no matter how much knowledge or education or material comfort you have, only suffering and confusion will ensue.
~ Dalai Lama

A truly compassionate attitude toward others does not change even if they behave negatively or hurt you.~ Dalai Lama

Sleep is the best meditation.
~ Dalai Lama

Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive. -Dalai Lama

Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend – or a meaningful day.
~ Dalai Lama

Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can’t help them, at least don’t hurt them.
~ Dalai Lama

It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.
~ Dalai Lama

All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.
~ Dalai Lama

Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.
~ Dalai Lama

True compassion is universal in scope. It is accompanied by a feeling of responsibility. – Dalai Lama

Under the bright sun, many of us are gathered together with different languages, different styles of dress, even different faiths. However, all of us are the same in being humans, and we all uniquely have the thought of “I,” and we´re all the same in wanting happiness and in wanting to avoid suffering. -Dalai Lama

We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.
~ Dalai Lama

Whether one believes in a religion or not, and whether one believes in rebirth or not, there isn’t anyone who doesn’t appreciate kindness and compassion.
~ Dalai Lama

When we are young and again when we are old, we depend heavily on the affection of others. Between these stages we usually feel that we can do everything without help from others and that other people’s affection is simply not important. But at this stage I think it is very important to keep deep human affection.
~ Dalai Lama

It is necessary to help others, not only in our prayers, but in our daily lives. If we find we cannot help others, the least we can do is to desist from harming them.
~ Dalai Lama

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness. ~ Dalai Lama

I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.
~ Dalai Lama

Whether someone believes something or not, believer or non-believer, as long as you are a member of the human family, you need warm human feeling, warmhearted feeling. The question of world peace, the question of family peace, the question of peace between wife and husband, or peace between parents and children, everything is dependent on that feeling of love and warmheartedness. -Dalai Lama

If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.
~ Dalai Lama

The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness.
~ Dalai Lama

In the practice of tolerance, one’s enemy is the best teacher.
~ Dalai Lama

Today, more than ever before, life must be characterized by a sense of Universal responsibility, not only nation to nation and human to human, but also human to other forms of life.
~ Dalai Lama

Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.
~ Dalai Lama

A truly compassionate attitude toward others does not change even if they behave negatively or hurt you. -Dalai Lama

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Wisdom Quotes From Mother Teresa

Here are some inspirational and motivational quotes by very inspirational Lady herself, Mother Teresa!

We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.
~ Mother Teresa

I want you to be concerned about your next door neighbor. Do you know your next door neighbor?
~ Mother Teresa

Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.
~ Mother Teresa

It is not the magnitude of our actions but the amount of love that is put into them that matters.
~ Mother Teresa

Do not think that love, in order to be genuine, has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired.
~ Mother Teresa

God doesn’t require us to succeed; he only requires that you try.
~ Mother Teresa

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do… but how much love we put in that action.
~ Mother Teresa

Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.
~ Mother Teresa

I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.
~ Mother Teresa

Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.
~ Mother Teresa

Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus.
~ Mother Teresa

Sweetest Lord, make me appreciative of the dignity of my high vocation, and its many responsibilities. Never permit me to disgrace it by giving way to coldness, unkindness, or impatience.
~ Mother Teresa

Good works are links that form a chain of love.
~ Mother Teresa

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
~ Mother Teresa

Intense love does not measure, it just gives.
~ Mother Teresa

The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.
~ Mother Teresa

I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter to the world.
~ Mother Teresa

In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love.
~ Mother Teresa

There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in – that we do it to God, to Christ, and that’s why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.
~ Mother Teresa

Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God – the rest will be given.
~ Mother Teresa

We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.
~ Mother Teresa

The success of love is in the loving – it is not in the result of loving. Of course it is natural in love to want the best for the other person, but whether it turns out that way or not does not determine the value of what we have done.
~ Mother Teresa

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature – trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence… We need silence to be able to touch souls.
~ Mother Teresa

If we want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.
~ Mother Teresa

Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.
~ Mother Teresa

The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted.
~ Mother Teresa
I do not pray for success, I ask for faithfulness.
~ Mother Teresa

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Quotes By Gandhi: Wisdom Mahama Gandhi Sayings

Mohandas Gandhi was one of the wisest man and man about Peace. Even Martin Luther King was influenced by his philosophy and life when he started his civil freedom for black in USA. Here are some inspirational and motivational quotes by Gandhi that will inspire and uplift your life.

Seven social sins: politics without principles, wealth without work, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity, and worship without sacrifice.

Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.-Mahatma Gandhi
Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.Satyagraha Leaflet No. 13

I came to the conclusion long ago … that all religions were true and also that all had some error in them, and whilst I hold by my own, I should hold others as dear as Hinduism. So we can only pray, if we are Hindus, not that a Christian should become a Hindu … But our innermost prayer should be a Hindu should be a better Hindu, a Muslim a better Muslim, a Christian a better Christian. -Young India (19 January 1928)

I’m a lover of my own liberty, and so I would do nothing to restrict yours. I simply want to please my own conscience, which is God.

  • Young India (21 January 1927)

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

A good person will resist an evil system with his whole soul. Disobedience of the laws of an evil state is therefore a duty.

“Hate the sin and not the sinner” is a precept which, though easy enough to understand, is rarely practiced, and that is why the poison of hatred spreads in the world.

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Selfishness is blind.

Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.

Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed.

Unless discipline is rooted in nonviolence, it might prove a source of infinite mischief.

Civil disobedience is the assertion of a right which law should give but which it denies.

Non-cooperation and civil disobedience are different but branches of the same tree call Satyagraha (truth-force).

Non-cooperation is a measure of discipline and sacrifice, and it demands respect for the opposite views.

Gandhi_South-AfricaIf we are to reach real peace in this world and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with children; and if they will grow up in their natural innocence, we won’t have to struggle, we won’t have to pass fruitless idle resolutions. But we shall go from love to love and peace to peace, until at last all the corners of the world are covered with that peace and love for which, consciously or unconsciously, the whole world is hungering.

True discipline gives enthusiastic obedience to instructions even though they don not satisfy the reason.

One who uses coercion is guilty of deliberate violence. Coercion is inhuman.

Evolution of democracy is not possible if we are not prepared to hear the other side.

Conscience is the ripe fruit of strictest discipline.

Corruption and hypocrisy ought not to be inevitable products of democracy, as they undoubtedly are today.

Unless discipline is rooted in nonviolence, it might prove a source of infinite mischief.

Faith gains in strength only when people are willing to lay down their lives for it.

Even as a tree has a single trunk but many branches and leaves, there is one religion -human religion- but any number of faiths.

Fasting is an institution as old as Adam. It has been resorted to for self-purification or for some ends, noble as well as ignoble.

Fear is not a disease of the body, fear kills the soul.

Where there is fear, there is not religion.

Freedom is like birth. Till we are fully free, we are slaves.

Freedom received through the efforts of others, however benevolent, cannot be retained when such effort is withdrawn.

Justice does not help those who slumber but helps only those who are vigilant.

Independence means voluntary restraints and discipline, voluntary acceptance of the rule of law.

Today machinery merely helps a few to ride on the backs of millions.

To observe morality is to attain mastery over our mind and our passions.

Truth and nonviolence demand that no human being may debar himself from serving any other human being, no matter how sinful he may be.

Peace will not come out of a clash of arms but out of justice lived and done by unarmed nations in the face of odds.

What I object to is the craze for machinery, not machinery as such.

Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.

My patriotism is not an exclusive thing. It is all-embracing and I should reject that patriotism which sought to mount the distress or exploitation of other nationalities.

Passive resistance is a method of securing rights by personal suffering; it is the reverse of resistance by arms.

It is my firm conviction that if the State supressed capitalism by violence, it will be caught in the coils of violence itself, and will fail to develop non-violence at any time. The State represents violence in a concentrated and organized form. The individual has a soul, but as the State is a soulless machine, it can never be weaned from violence to which it owes its very existence.

Sorrow and suffering make for character if they are voluntarily borne, but not if they are imposed.
If your heart acquires strength, you will be able to remove blemishes from others without thinking evil of them.

It can be easily demonstrated that destruction of the capitalist must mean destruction in the end of the worker and as no human being is so bad as to be beyond redemption, no human being is so perfect as to warrant his destroying him whom he wrongly considers to be wholly evil.

Truth, which is permanent, eludes the historian of events. Truth transcends history.

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Peace Quotes

Here are some quotes about peace, finding peace in our life.

Let us love the world to peace.  ~Quoted in The Angels’ Little Instruction Book by Eileen Elias Freeman

You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist. –Indira Gandhi

I take it that what all men are really after is some form of, perhaps only some formula of, peace. – James Conrad

Freedom from desire leads to inner peace.-Lao Tse

Whenever you are sincerely pleased, you are nourished. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

The pacifist’s task today is to find a method of helping and healing which provides a revolutionary constructive substitute for war. –Vera Brittain

We have all taken risks in the making of war. Isn’t it time that we should take risks to secure peace? – J. Ramsay MacDonald

A smile is the beginning of peace. – Mother Teresa

Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding. –Albert Einstein

Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal. –Martin Luther King, Jr.

I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it. ~Dwight Eisenhower

End each day with thoughts of peace. Begin each day with
thoughts of peace. Continue thinking thoughts of peace
throughout your precious day and happiness will be yours. –Unknown

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

If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.- Mohandas Gandhi

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

An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind. –Mahatma Gandhi

Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war. -Winston Churchill

Avoid popularity if you would have peace. –Abraham Lincoln

A people free to choose will always choose peace. – Ronald Reagan

I would rather have peace in the world than be President. –Harry S. Truman

You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don’t ever count on having both at once. –Robert A. Heinlein

We have all taken risks in the making of war. Isn’t it time that we should take risks to secure peace? ~J.Ramsay MacDonald

The happiness and peace attained by those satisfied by the nectar of spiritual tranquillity is not attained by greedy persons restlessly moving here and there. –Chanakya

Although a soldier by profession, I have never felt any sort of fondness for war, and I have never advocated it, except as a means of peace. –Ulysses S. Grant

True peace is found in this moment. Acceptance is the 1st step to inner calm. –Unknown

Let loose of what you can’t control. Serenity will be yours. – Unknown

The poor long for riches, the rich long for heaven, but the
wise long for a state of tranquility. – Swami Rama

In the name of peace
They waged the wars
Ain’t they got no shame –Nikki Giovanni

He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with
the world. – Marcus Aurelius

Peace, above all things, is to be desired, but blood must sometimes be spilled to obtain it on equable and lasting terms. –Andrew Jackson

If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots. ~Napoleon Bonaparte

The more we sweat in peace the less we bleed in war. ~Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit

If man does find the solution for world peace it will be the most revolutionary reversal of his record we have ever known. –George C. Marshall

Top 5 Must Read Books On Peace: How To Find Peace

Freedom from desire leads to inner peace.
– Lao Tse

For all of our lives, we feel something is missing and we chase our dream to make money, fall in love, get a college education, get married, buy house, have kids and so on and yet something remains unfulfilled in many people. That something is peace or we can say mental peace that comes with time.

What Does Peace Mean to You?

Peace is kind of inner sense calm where nothing from outwardly bothers you and you are at peace with your self and world. Peaceful heart should be free from worries, jealousy and boosting. It is inner calm and balance where nothing is overly sad or overly happy. That is what it means to me, while I am long way from achieving this feat, I am trying.

When I gave up my six figure job over 7 years ago, I had thought it was a beginning of my journey to find meaningful purpose and peace within myself. I have read many books, visited websites, attended a few talks and I found some great gems and some that were not worth my time.

I want to share top peace related books for those you might be interested, as not all books are created equally and some books can change your life and belief system in good way and some you wished you can get your wasted time back.

Here are my top peace related books, so you do not have to do trial and error to find motivational reading.

Top 5 Must Read Books on Peace:

This list is based on what I have read out of thousands of books that I have read. I am book worm and love reading in my spare time. I happen to be very fast reader too, so sometimes I have to and like to re-read books that are truly inspiring. This list is in random order;

1. 10 Secrets for Success and Inner Peace

This book has written by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer, who has written many books on self development, and has appeared in many television and radio shows such as The Today Show, The Tonight Show, and Oprah. I usually stay away from trendy things so I had not read any of his books, until a friend of gave me her copy to read it. It is simply great and shares 10 (not so much) secrets to have inner peace.

The book is about 158 pages, that reveals 10 basic steps or principles of changing the perception or outlook in our life. It is simple, although it is about peace, happiness comes along with it. Some of the secret focuses on having an open mind, avoiding weak thoughts, attach to nothing and gaining wisdom to forget your own history, treat yourself as you like to be and so on. I like how the each chapter he starts with simple yet profound quotes that makes a perfect sense.

This book is easy read in one lazy afternoon and shows many ways to bring peace, positivity and happiness all in rolled in one. One issue I have with this book is that Dr. Dyer does not show how to change certain behavior, I think he assumes that reader already knows how to do it. Being happy or bringing peaceful mind is certainly long journey that can not be achieved in one day. This book sure bring one step closer to finding inner peace.

2. How to Stop Worrying and Start Living (Revised Edition)

This is amazing book by my favorite author Dale Carnegie. I had first read it in teen years but easily forgotten in my busy teen life. It was not until, I took a Dale Carnegie leadership Workshop early in my career and then I begin co-teaching the workshop as an assistant, I truly realize how powerful this book and its message is.

You may think this is worry book, why it is in peace section? Without letting go of worry, we can not be at peace and believe me after reading and re-reading this book again, you will find peace as you let go of some of silly concerns and worries that we all tend to have.

Book begins with  “Those who don’t know how to fight worry, die young.” If you have read How to Win friends by Dale you will know, this book has same good old common sense, interviews with famous people, heartfelt advice and solutions. He does not teach you, he makes you feel like we are learning together, without making you feel guilty and silly over our worries and concern. This book is must for many home library, it is in mine.(Amzn.)

3. Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life

This is written by Thich Nhat Hanh, whom I had not known much about until I started reading Zen Habits. He recommended this book, so I had to go get and read it. This book really spoke to my inner calm and encouraged mental inner peace. We are looking for peace and happiness outward, no wonder we do not find it. Peace and happiness comes from within us, once we remove the clutter from our life, and mind.

Modern living has made us lose touch with our true self and peace within us. Thich Nhat Hanh is Zen Master, author and spiritual master who shows us how every moment can be turned in positive instead of annoying one. For him a ringing phone can be a signal to call us back to our true selves. According to him even dirty dishes, traffic lights are process to keep our conscious to stay alive to present reality. So, next time, you are stuck at red light, sit back and smile….One thing I like about this book’s method is, that process starts where-ever you might be, if I am with a toddler in kitchen, I can still get deep meditative presence and I like that. He also shows, how to increase awareness through conscious breathing which is huge step towards inner joy. World around has its beauty and its horrors but we can still find stillness and peace, this book makes me optimistic and it will do similar thing to you. (Amzn.)

  4. World Peace Diet: Eating for Spiritual Health and Social Harmony

Why food book in peace section? It is because it is true that we are what we eat, really! Food is our most intimate and telling connection both with the living natural order, being compassionate with earth and with our living cultural heritage . By eating the plants and animals of our earth, we literally incorporate these principles.

Doctor Will Tuttle’s World Peace Diet is unlike any other “diet book” that you will ever read. Diet Books such as Dr. Atkins, The South Beach Diet attempt to give the reader guidance on how to lose weight. However, they fail to spell out the psychological health, ethical, environmental, and spiritual implications of their guidance. The World Peace Diet suggests how we as a species might move our consciousness forward so that we can be more free, more intelligent, more loving, and happier in the choices we make.  Make peace with earth and our body and eat diet that is good for us, earth and other living beings so that we can be in harmony and at peace.

5. Peace of Mind: Healing of Broken Lives

This book was strongly recommended by elderly uncle about 2 years ago, when we were without any income and little P was having lot of health and breathing issues. Trying to find silver lining between unemployment and sick child was tough to say the least. At the moment, I could not see how any reading will help someone in my situation and I sure did. I wished I had read it sooner.

Peace of Mind spiritual healing is based on the premise that no one can be truly healthy unless their mind, body and psyche are indeed operating in one sympathetic unit. This book promotes that it is not enough to alleviate physical symptoms of illness or injury; to be completely healed one must also address the mental and spiritual symptoms as well. This is great book for depression, mental well being. Even though I do not believe in black magic, spiritual attacks, evil eyes, and curses, this book also touches upon these topics as well.

I have tackled depression and anxiety both and now I know that to live a healthy life, stress free, we need to keep the body and spirit in sync. This book  offers a simple guide to achieving peace and tranquility for the soul in a step by step guide: Signs – Diagnosis, Healing – Treatment, Protection and Purification.

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