Jules Verne Quotes

This world of ours has everything save and except one thing: peace. And this peace has to start from within. If I have peace of mind, then only can I be of help to you. If you have peace of mind, then only can you be of help to me.

Happiness is excitement that has found a settling down place, but there is always a little corner that keeps flapping around.

If you scramble about in search of inner peace, you will lose your inner peace.

I need to just find my own peace.

A mind that is characterized by unrest will not be tranquil even in the presence of great calm.

Be still, and the world is bound to turn herself inside out to entertain you. Everywhere you look, joyful noise is clanging to drown out quiet desperation.

since God has appointed one remedy for all the evils in the world and that is a contented spirit.

Ketut, why is life all crazy like this?" I asked my medicine man the next day...So what can we do about the craziness of the world?" Nothing." Ketut laughed, but with a dose of kindness. "This is nature of world. This is destiny. Worry about your craziness only-make you in peace.

If we are at peace with God and our own conscience, what enemy among men need we fear?

It is only through meditation that we can get lasting peace, divine peace. If we meditate soulfully in the morning and receive peace for only one minute, that one minute of peace will permeate our whole day. And when we have a meditation of the highest order, then we really get abiding peace, light and delight. We need meditation because we want to grow in light and fulfill ourselves in light. If this is our aspiration, if this is our thirst, then meditation is the only way.

A crowd is not necessarily company, but neither need it necessarily prevent thought or disturb peace of mind.

To have a mind full of peace, merely fill it full of peace. It's as simple as that.

It is better to die of hunger having lived without grief and fear, than to live with a troubled spirit, amid abundance

No price is too great to pay for inner peace.

"Serenity" is the flavor of meditation.

The same hot lightning that burns your blood with passion–– cools your fears with peace.

I'll give you everything I've got for a little peace of mind

He enjoys that perfect peace, that peace beyond all understanding, which comes to its maximum only to the man who has given up golf.

Anxiety is the poison of human life; the parent of many sins and of more miseries. In a world where everything is doubtful, and where we may be disappointed, and be blessed in disappointment, why this restless stir and commotion of mind? Can it alter the cause, or unravel the mystery of human events?

When I find my focus and keep my balance- I find that all is right with my world.

In this moment that blooms and fades as it passes, he is enough, and all is well in the world.

All I want is to have my peace of mind...

No one can achieve Serenity until the glare of passion is past the meridian.

Enough of this wretched life and murmuring and apish tricks. Why art thou disturbed? What is there new in this? What unsettles thee? Is it the form of the thing? Look at it. Or is it the matter? Look at it. But besides these there is nothing. Towards the gods, then, now become at last more simple and better. It is the same whether we examine these things for a hundred years or three.