Inner peace isn’t just a state of mind but a genuine key for a meaningful life.
It’s the mental and emotional stillness that comes with understanding yourself, even amid the chaos and stress of the outside world. This inner calm enables us to navigate life’s complexities with clarity and courage — fostering resilience and empathy along the way.
At Good Good Good, our mission is to help people feel more hopeful and do more good. In our work sharing positive news, we’ve found that it’s impossible to feel hopeful simply by ignoring the bad in the world. You have to fully feel the heartbreak to be able to feel a sense of genuine hope and relief.
Similarly, finding inner peace isn’t about avoiding challenges — but rather, facing them head-on with a calm mind and a resilient spirit.
When we are at peace internally, our actions reflect this tranquility — influencing our relationships, work, and even our contributions to global peace and well-being.
Throughout history, spiritual leaders, philosophers, and trailblazers from diverse walks of life have shed light on the path to inner peace.
Their words serve as both comfort and a call-to-action — nudging us toward a deeper understanding of ourselves and the world.
We’ve curated some of the most profound quotes about inner peace to guide you in your own journey toward finding it.
Whether you’re struggling with life’s ups and downs or are seeking to fill the world with a bit more peace — may these quotes offer timeless wisdom that can help bring serenity to your soul.
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The Best Peace Quotes
Famous Quotes
“Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.”
— Martin Luther King Jr.
“Peace begins with a smile.”
— Mother Teresa
“You find peace not by rearranging the circumstances of your life, but by realizing who you are at the deepest level.”
— Eckhart Tolle
“Better than a thousand hollow words is one word that brings peace.”
— Buddha
“There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.”
— Edith Wharton
“Peace is the opposite of dreaming. It’s built slowly and surely through brutal compromises and tiny victories that you don’t even see. It’s a messy business, bringing peace into the world.”
— Bono
“Do your little bit of good where you are; it’s those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.”
— Desmond Tutu
“I still believe that peace and plenty and happiness can be worked out some way. I am a fool.”
— Kurt Vonnegut
“There is peace even in the storm.”
— Vincent van Gogh
“Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say that I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one. I hope someday you’ll join us and the world will be as one.”
— John Lennon, Imagine
“Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.”
— Amelia Earhart
“You cannot find peace by avoiding life.”
— Michael Cunningham, The Hours
Inner Peace Quotes
“Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
“World peace must develop from inner peace. Peace is not just mere absence of violence. Peace is, I think, the manifestation of human compassion.”
— The Dalai Lama
“A quiet conscience makes one strong!”
— Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
“Not one of us can rest, be happy, be at home, be at peace with ourselves, until we end hatred and division.”
— John Lewis
“You should feel beautiful and you should feel safe. What you surround yourself with should bring you peace of mind and peace of spirit.”
— Stacy London
“Don’t search for anything except peace. Try to calm the mind. Everything else will come on its own.”
— Baba Hari Das
“Peace of mind for five minutes, that’s what I crave.”
— Alanis Morissette
“Do not let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace.”
— The Dalai Lama
“I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart. I am. I am. I am.”
— Sylvia Plath
“If you are depressed you are living in the past if you are anxious you are living in the future, if you are at peace, you are living in the present.”
— Lao Tzu
Short Peace Quotes
“Every breath we take, every step we make, can be filled with peace, joy and serenity.”
— Thich Nhat Hanh
“Peace is the only battle worth waging.”
— Albert Camus
“The more we sweat in peace, the less we bleed in war.”
— Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
“That’s all nonviolence is — organized love.”
— Joan Baez
“Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.”
— Albert Einstein
“Peace is liberty in tranquility.”
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Run to the rescue with love, and peace will follow.”
— River Phoenix
“Whatever peace I know rests in the natural world, in feeling myself a part of it, even in a small way.”
— May Sarton
“When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.”
— Jimi Hendrix
“An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.”
— Mahatma Gandhi
“Peace is our gift to each other.”
— Elie Wiesel
“We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.”
— Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
More Quotes & Captions About Peace & Serenity
“If there is righteousness in the heart, there will be beauty in the character. If there is beauty in the character, there will be harmony in the home. If there is harmony in the home, there will be order in the nations. When there is order in the nations, there will peace in the world.”
— Confucius
“Until we have the courage to recognize cruelty for what it is — whether its victim is human or animal — we cannot expect things to be much better in this world… We cannot have peace among men whose hearts delight in killing any living creature.”
— Rachel Carson
“We can’t just hope for a brighter day, we have to work for a brighter day. Love too often gets buried in a world of hurt and fear. And we have to work to dig it out so we can share it with our family, our friends, and our neighbors.”
— Dolly Parton
“Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can quietly become a power no government can suppress, a power than can transform the world.”
— Howard Zinn
“If you don’t know the guy on the other side of the world, love him anyway because he’s just like you. He has the same dreams, the same hopes and fears. It’s one world, pal. We’re all neighbors.”
— Frank Sinatra
“I believe we are here on the planet Earth to live, grow up and do what we can to make this world a better place for all people to enjoy freedom.”
— Rosa Parks
“The Art of Peace functions everywhere on earth, in realms ranging from the vastness of space down to the tiniest plants and animals. The life force is all-pervasive and its strength boundless. The Art of Peace allows us to perceive and tap into that tremendous reserve of universal energy.”
— Morihei Ueshiba
“Peace cannot exist without justice, justice cannot exist without fairness, fairness cannot exist without development, development cannot exist without democracy, democracy cannot exist without respect for the identity and worth of cultures and peoples.”
— Rigoberta Menchu, Nobel Peace Prize laureate
“Peace comes from being able to contribute the best that we have, and all that we are, toward creating a world that supports everyone. But it is also securing the space for others to contribute the best that they have and all that they are.”
— Hafsat Abiola
“We who in engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive.”
— Martin Luther King Jr.
“Dogs are our link to paradise. They don’t know evil or jealousy or discontent. To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring — it was peace.”
— Milan Kundera, Unbearable Lightness of Being
“Don’t wait for a better world. Start now to create a world of harmony and peace. It is up to you, and it always has been. You may even find the solution at the end of your fork.”
— Sharon Gannon
“Peace is not something you wish for, it is something you make, something you are, something you do and something you give away.”
— Robert Fulghum
“Every person needs to take one day away. A day in which one consciously separates the past from the future. Jobs, family, employers, and friends can exist one day without any one of us, and if our egos permit us to confess, they could exist eternally in our absence. Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for. Each of us needs to withdraw from the cares which will not withdraw from us.”
— Maya Angelou, Wouldn’t Take Nothing for My Journey Now
“We are either going to have a future where women lead the way to make peace with the Earth or we are not going to have a human future at all.”
— Vandana Shiva
“If people want to protest, to get out there and express themselves, as long as they do it peacefully, they should be encouraged to do so.”
— Keith Ellison
“Peace is always beautiful.”
— Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass
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