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- Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.
- Og Mandino (1923 - 1996)
- Those who seek consolation in existing churches often pay for their peace of mind with a tacit agreement to ignore a great deal of what is known about the way the world works.
- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, 1990
- Peace of mind is that mental condition in which you have accepted the worst.
- Lin Yutang
- I wish you sunshine on your path and storms to season your journey. I wish you peace in the world in which you live... More I cannot wish you except perhaps love to make all the rest worthwhile.
- Robert A. Ward
- People say to me so often, 'Jane how can you be so peaceful when everywhere around you people want books signed, people are asking these questions and yet you seem peaceful,' and I always answer that it is the peace of the forest that I carry inside.
- Jane Goodall (1934 - )
- One cannot find peace in work or in pleasure, in the world or in a convent, but only in one's soul.
- W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Painted Veil, 1925
- Happiness arises in a state of peace, not of tumult.
- Ann Radcliffe (1764 - 1823), The Mysteries of Udolpho, 1764
- I have seen a peaceful expression turn to anger as fast as a whip cracks, and so the look on the face might mean less than what it seems to be.
- Erica Eisdorfer, The Wet Nurse's Tale, 2009
- I dream of wayward gulls and all landless lovers, rare moments of winter sun, peace, privacy, for everyone.
- William Claire
- There is plenty of peace in any home where the family doesn't make the mistake of trying to get together.
- Kin Hubbard (1868 - 1930)
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