Joseph Cook Quotes

Having failed to conquer myself, my best hope now is to arrange an alliance with myself.

I practice martial arts not to win over other people but to win over my own heart.

Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.

When you acquire enough inner peace and feel really positive about yourself, it's almost impossible for you to be controlled and manipulated by anybody else.

If you are not at peace with yourself then you cannot spread peace.

Authentic happiness is always independent of external conditions. Vigilantly practice polite indifference to that which we can't control. Your happiness can only be found within.

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

Every goal, every action, every thought, every feeling one experiences, whether it be consciously or unconsciously known, is an attempt to increase one's level of peace of mind.

Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace.

I do not ask for any crown But that which all may win; Nor try to conquer any world Except the one within.

Ever since I met Sangram Singh, I am at peace with myself.

We are all on a journey to mastering our inner peace.

Self-denial does not belong to religion as characteristic of it; it belongs to human life; the lower nature must always be denied when you are trying to rise to a higher sphere.

I'm just more content with myself. Like, if I've got something to say, I want to get it off of my chest.

I am very happy Because I have conquered myself And not the world. I am very happy Because I have loved the world And not myself.

Be at peace with yourself first and then you will be able to bring peace to others.

Ego says, "Once everything falls into place, I'll feel peace". Spirit says, "Find your peace, and then everything will fall into place".

Your higher self is always nudging you toward a resolution of the conflicts that you experience in your life, so that you will have room for serenity and harmony.

It is not worth the while to let our imperfections disturb us always. The conscience really does not, and ought not to monopolizethe whole of our lives, any more than the heart or the head. It is as liable to disease as any other part.

The purpose of a spiritual discipline is to give us a way to stop the war, not by our force of will, but organically, through understanding an gradual training.

In the march towards Truth, anger, selfishness, hatred, etc., naturally give way, for otherwise Truth would be impossible to attain. A man who is swayed by passions may have good enough intentions, may be truthful in word, but he will never find the Truth.

I am my own heaven and hell!

Love yourself and be awake- Today, tomorrow, always. First establish yourself in the way, Then teach others, And so defeat sorrow. To straighten the crooked You must first do a harder thing- Straighten yourself. You are your only master. Who else? Subdue yourself, And discover your master.

I have to introduce the part of me that feels like a winner to the part of me convinced I’m a loser, and see if they can’t agree to exist somewhere closer to the middle.

You have to be content with who you are on a day-to-day basis.