Inner peace Quotes

I don't recall having any self-awareness about the intricacy of my stories.

- A. E. van Vogt

After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquility of a political convention.

- Adlai E. Stevenson

The successful entrepreneurs that I see have two characteristics: self-awareness and persistence. They're able to see problems in their companies through their self-awareness and be persistent enough to solve them.

- Alan Schaaf

Periods of tranquility are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

- Alfred North Whitehead

As we all know, there is inner beauty and outer beauty. If we examine inner beauty, to me there is nothing more beautiful than inner peace, in a man or a woman.

- Alice Greczyn

We live in the Facebook era. I think everyone, not just celebrities, have an unprecedented level of self-awareness, of presenting yourself to the world. The truth is, it starts with how you look, and that goes into how you dress.

- Allison Williams

I think my daughters have a pretty healthy self-awareness but I can't speak on their behalf.

- Annie Lennox

Having children, they're not your property. They need to figure out their own views. I think my daughters have a pretty healthy self-awareness, but I can't speak on their behalf.

- Annie Lennox

You have come to a stage where you almost have to work on yourself. You know, on finding some tranquility with which to respond to these things, because I realize that the biggest risk that many of us run is beginning to get inured to the horrors.

- Arundhati Roy

In life, we like tranquility; in books, we love tension.

- Ben Dolnick

Actually, parts of New Zealand remind me of Suffolk. There's not many flat bits, but just the atmosphere there. There's a kind of a core tranquility about it, a kind of assuredness that this is fairly close to approaching the perfect way to be.

- Bernard Hill

You can't be a great comedian without having self-awareness about others or your own faults. You need a strong sense of self and view on the world. That's what great actors have, too.

- Billy Eichner

You know, you do have a self-awareness as an actor.

- Cate Blanchett

It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility; they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

- Charlotte Bronte

It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

- Charlotte Bronte

Among the chartered responsibilities of the federal government were, in those areas where appropriate - such as facilitating interstate commerce - to provide for justice and domestic tranquility, the common defense, and to secure the blessings of liberty.

- Chris Gibson

I try to practice mindfulness at all times, including the times where I'm nervous and I'm stressed.

- Christen Press

If your emotional abilities aren't in hand, if you don't have self-awareness, if you are not able to manage your distressing emotions, if you can't have empathy and have effective relationships, then no matter how smart you are, you are not going to get very far.

- Daniel Goleman

If you are doing mindfulness meditation, you are doing it with your ability to attend to the moment.

- Daniel Goleman

Self-awareness is the ability to take an honest look at your life without any attachment to it being right or wrong, good or bad.

- Debbie Ford

People need to know that they have all the tools within themselves. Self-awareness, which means awareness of their body, awareness of their mental space, awareness of their relationships - not only with each other, but with life and the ecosystem.

- Deepak Chopra

Self-awareness is not just relaxation and not just meditation. It must combine relaxation with activity and dynamism. Technology can aid that.

- Deepak Chopra

Self-awareness is value-free. It isn't scary. It doesn't imply that you will subject yourself to needless pain.

- Deepak Chopra

I dislike the word 'self-help.' Self-awareness, yes, but not self-help.

- Deepak Chopra

It takes a little bit of mindfulness and a little bit of attention to others to be a good listener, which helps cultivate emotional nurturing and engagement.

- Deepak Chopra

To deny that human beings are filled with anti-social passions betrays a denial of reality and a lack of self-awareness. One has to be taught nonsense for a great many formative years to believe it.

- Dennis Prager

My faith helps me understand that circumstances don't dictate my happiness, my inner peace.

- Denzel Washington

The road back from degradation begins with self-awareness - and sometimes, as in 'Phone Booth,' change can begin with a single phone call.

- Elvis Mitchell

I'm a fan of mindfulness, and if colouring in is a way of reaching mindfulness, then I think it's great. But I'm amazed that anyone has the time to do that. I certainly don't.

- Essie Davis

I've always been interested in mindfulness and alternative ways of seeing the world.

- Finn Jones

There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness or death. Any attempt to prove otherwise constitutes unacceptable behavior.

- Fran Lebowitz

Self-awareness is not the same thing as self-approval, any more than imagination is the same thing as day-dreaming.

- Francis Spufford

I like to play the guy that has no self-awareness.

- Fred Willard

A novel is a work of poetry. In order to write it, one must have tranquility of spirit and of impression.

- Fyodor Dostoevsky

I really explored self-awareness and emotions through 'Green Lantern.' It might sound goofy, but I do believe that emotions have power. We're all driven by something, and most of that is emotional reaction. For me, it was about recognizing my self-awareness.

- Geoff Johns

The mind's first step to self-awareness must be through the body.

- George A. Sheehan

I'm pretty much done with mindfulness. I'm just going to start paying attention.

- Gina Barreca

Mindfulness can help people of any age. That's because we become what we think.

- Goldie Hawn

Hospice is such a tremendous thing. Patients seem to reach an inner peace.

- Harmon Killebrew

Mindfulness means being aware of how you're deploying your attention and making decisions about it, and not letting the tweet or the buzzing of your BlackBerry call your attention.

- Howard Rheingold

Now painting is different. It's something recollected in tranquility.

- Jack Levine

I quite like to sing, actually - just belting out numbers with my guitar. I find that it's a form of tranquility.

- Jack O'Connell

Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.

- James Thurber

Look at the evidence and to be willing to question your own truths, and to be willing to scrutinize things that you hold dearly because that way, that transparency, that self-awareness, will protect you from ever becoming somebody that whose beliefs somehow make them have myopic vision about what could be.

- Jason Silva

I think that what I have been truly searching for as a person, as a writer, as a thinker, as a daughter, is freedom. That is my mission. A sense of liberty, the liberty that comes not only from self-awareness but also from letting go of many things. Many things that weigh us down.

- Jhumpa Lahiri

One of the great things about children is that they have no other concern than to be simply interested in things. It is considered by some the height of mindfulness to approach the world afresh like a child.

- John Dickerson

One of the reasons I'm an interesting person to be married to is my intensely late-blooming self-awareness.

- John Ortberg

Mindfulness is often spoken of as the heart of Buddhist meditation. It's not about Buddhism, but about paying attention. That's what all meditation is, no matter what tradition or particular technique is used.

- Jon Kabat-Zinn

Writing can be an incredible mindfulness practice.

- Jon Kabat-Zinn

When I first started making music, I didn't really know what I was doing. I just wanted to write songs. I didn't have a concept. I didn't think it through. I was just flailing around doing what comes naturally. It took me a really long time to step back and deal with what I was doing with any kind of perspective or self-awareness.

- Juliana Hatfield

From taking photographs of George and Charlotte, I have been struck by the wonderful lack of self-consciousness that you see in photographs of children, without the self-awareness that adults generally feel.

- Kate Middleton

Buddhist mindfulness is about the present, but I also think it's about being real. Being awake to everything. Feeling like nothing can hurt you if you can look it straight on.

- Krista Tippett

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

- Kwame Nkrumah

People should accept being single, because those are the moments you can really focus on yourself, and learning who you are. Then when you get in a relationship, you will be stronger and have a little bit more self-awareness, self-love, and the other ingredients for a healthy relationship.

- Lauren London

I'm passionate about speaking out against bullying and speaking up for self-awareness with young people and body-image issues and self-esteem issues.

- Lily Collins

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

Every time I rap about being a big girl in a small world, it's doing a couple things: it's empowering my self-awareness, my body image, and it's also making the statement that we are all bigger than this; we're a part of something bigger than this, and we should live in each moment knowing that.

- Lizzo

What I'm very concerned about is how do we bolster our self-awareness as humans, as biological organisms?

- Mae Jemison

Self-awareness is not self-centeredness, and spirituality is not narcissism. 'Know thyself' is not a narcissistic pursuit.

- Marianne Williamson

I'm not dieting anymore. I want to eat what my body is asking of me. Just listen to your body in general - it's all self-awareness.

- Mary Lambert

The joy of being a consumer is that it doesn't require thought, responsibility, self-awareness or shame: All you have to do is obey the first urge that gurgles up from your stomach. And then obey the next. And the next. And the next.

- Matt Taibbi

The case for exploiting animals for food, clothing and entertainment often relies on our superior intelligence, language and self-awareness: the rights of the superior being trump those of the inferior.

- Michael Shermer

Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.

- Michel de Montaigne

Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace.

- Mike Ditka

What I'm trying to do is maintain some mindfulness about being popular - I wasn't so great at that last time around.

- Mike Posner

Yeah, it's disturbing when someone has no self-awareness.

- Mike White

I really love yoga. I love the mindfulness of it, where not only are you exercising your body, but you're also building that mind/body connection as far as being aware of every movement - what your body's doing, how your body's feeling.

- Miranda Rae Mayo

A really useful quality to have as an actor is a lack of self-awareness. I try and get into the character's thinking, and some of them just aren't really that bothered about how they come across or aware of how they come across.

- Monica Dolan

The Nation of Islam's main focus was teaching black pride and self-awareness. Why should we keep trying to force ourselves into white restaurants and schools when white people didn't want us? Why not clean up our own neighborhoods and schools instead of trying to move out of them and into white people's neighborhoods?

- Muhammad Ali

I have inner peace; I have accomplished a great deal.

- Neil Sedaka

If every day you practice walking and sitting meditation and generate the energy of mindfulness and concentration and peace, you are a cell in the body of the new Buddha. This is not a dream but is possible today and tomorrow.

- Nhat Hanh

Mindfulness practices enhance the connection between our body, our mind and everything else that is around us. Mindful living is the key to understanding our struggles with weight and to empowering us to control our weight.

- Nhat Hanh

Mindfulness helps you go home to the present. And every time you go there and recognize a condition of happiness that you have, happiness comes.

- Nhat Hanh

With mindfulness, you can establish yourself in the present in order to touch the wonders of life that are available in that moment.

- Nhat Hanh

A degree of self-awareness is extremely valuable... I hope I have that going forward.

- Nick McDonell

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

- Norman Vincent Peale

Mindfulness is natural when you do not need to think about minor daily problems like making a living!

- Om Malik

The characters I've played that I like the most are people that have a lot of obstacles. They have a lot of bad things going on. They're seeking to do something good amidst all the detritus around them, and they're aware of how badly they've screwed it up. That kind of self-awareness is tragic.

- Paul Sparks

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

While the lab plays an enormous role, research is also influenced by inner peace of mind and one's family environment, depending on what stage of one's life and career a scientist is at.

- Peter Agre

If you think about what you do, if you become self-conscious about it, you've got to be very careful. Because I really like to write without self-awareness of what I'm doing.

- Peter Morgan

I am sustained by the tranquility of an upright and loyal heart.

- Peter Stuyvesant

I admire the fact that the central core of Buddhist teaching involves mindfulness and loving kindness and compassion.

- Ron Reagan

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

The fact that one can lose one's sense of self in an ocean of tranquility does not mean that one's consciousness is immaterial or that it presided over the birth of the universe.

- Sam Harris

I consider Ahmedabad lucky for me in many ways, as the city gives me inner peace.

- Sangram Singh

Motion is tranquility.

- Stirling Moss

Movement is tranquility.

- Stirling Moss

The real spiritual progress of the aspirant is measured by the extent to which he achieves inner tranquility.

- Swami Sivananda

Is it possible to have negative self-awareness?

- T. J. Miller

Self-awareness is something that we actually actively avoid.

- Ted Dwane

Self-awareness is one of the biggest enemies to creativity.

- Ted Dwane

Mindfulness helps you go home to the present. And every time you go there and recognize a condition of happiness that you have, happiness comes.

- Thich Nhat Hanh

When you look at the sun during your walking meditation, the mindfulness of the body helps you to see that the sun is in you; without the sun there is no life at all and suddenly you get in touch with the sun in a different way.

- Thich Nhat Hanh

You practice mindfulness, on the one hand, to be calm and peaceful. On the other hand, as you practice mindfulness and live a life of peace, you inspire hope for a future of peace.

- Thich Nhat Hanh

Great tranquility of heart is his who cares for neither praise nor blame.

- Thomas a Kempis

It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.

- Thomas Jefferson

Mindfulness helps you to be where you are when you're there. When I'm interacting with constituents who are suffering, that matters.

- Tim Ryan

The mindfulness revolution is not quite as dramatic as the moon shot or the civil rights movement, but I believe, in the long run, it can have just as great an impact.

- Tim Ryan

What bothers me is the lack of self-awareness. I don't know if I have ever met a group less self-aware than political reporters.

- Tucker Carlson

One think that you notice about anyone that gets up on stage is that they don't really have a lot of self-awareness. It's kind of a trait that performers don't have because you just kinda just have to let go and do whatever you want to do on stage.

- Tyler Joseph

You do indeed have a past, but not now! And, yes, you have a future, but not now! You can consume your now with thoughts of 'then' and 'maybe,' but that will keep you from the inner peace you could experience.

- Wayne Dyer

I am a glutton for tranquility.

- Wole Soyinka