Mental Tranquility Quotes

The mind is essentially a survival machine. Attack and defense against other minds, gathering, storing, and analyzing information - this is what it is good at, but it is not at all creative. All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness.

NOTHING which life has to offer is worth the price of worry

The sole cause of all human misery is the inability of people to sit quietly in their rooms.

We all wish for world peace, but world peace will never be achieved unless we first establish peace within our own minds.

All the unhappiness of men arises from one single fact, that they cannot stay quietly in their own chamber.

Individual Peace paves the way for world peace. The attainment of inner calm is the greatest work you can do for humanity.

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

We know perfectly well that neither love nor peace of mind can be bought with any currency.

We know that we are happy when our mind is peaceful, and unhappy when it is not. It is therefore clear that our happiness depends upon our having a peaceful mind and not on good external conditions. Even if our external conditions are poor, if we maintain a peaceful mind all the time we shall always be happy.

From the most sacred ancient text of Yoga: Oh Krishna, the mind is restless, turbulent, strong, and unyielding. I consider it as difficult to subdue as the wind.

Moderation in people who are contented comes from that calm that good fortune lends to their spirit.

The way to develop inner peace through meditation begins with the recognition that the destroyer of inner peace is not some external foe, but is within us. Therefore, the solution is within us too. However, that inner change does not take place immediately in the way that we switch on a light, but takes weeks, months and years.

Only through kindness and love can peace of mind be achieved.

If one's mind has peace, the whole world will appear peaceful.

A mind that is fast is sick. A mind that is slow is sound. A mind that is still is divine.

Without trust, there can be no tranquil resting of the mind.

There are two kinds of satisfaction or happiness: one mainly through mental peace; another physical comfort

Mastery lies not merely in stilling the mind, but in directing it towards whatever point we desire, in allowing it to be active as far as we wish, in using it to fulfill our purpose, in causing it to be still when we want to still it. He who has come to this has created his heaven within himself; he has no need to wait for a heaven in the hereafter, for he has produced it within his own mind now.

It is within our power not to make a judgement about something, and so not disturb our minds; for nothing in itself possesses the power to form our judgements.

He who has peace of mind disturbs neither himself nor another.

In the final analysis, the hope of every person is simply peace of mind.

You can't take a crash course in serenity.

We have a largely materialistic lifestyle characterized by a materialistic culture. However, this only provides us with temporary, sensory satisfaction, whereas long-term satisfaction is based not on the senses but on the mind. That’s where real tranquility is to be found. And peace of mind turns out to be a significant factor in our physical health too.

The true creativity comes out of sitting silently. When you are so totally quiet that there is no thought, no wave in the ocean of your being, out of this silence comes a different kind of creativity.

Forget things and have a quiet moment.