Here are some of our favorite quotes to inspire living intentionally and with peace. What’s your favorite?
1. You cannot control the results, only your actions.
-Allan Lokos
2. The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mood of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change, for happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up.
– Charles Morgan
3. The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order.
-Henry Miller
4. The object of living is work, experience, happiness.
-Henry Ford
5. Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart.
-Carl Jung
6. I’ve learned that making a living is not the same thing as making a life.
-Maya Angelou
7. No one ever finds life worth living – one has to make it worth living.
-Winston Churchill
8. Living in a constant chase after gain compels people to expend their spirit to the point of exhaustion.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
9. Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand-and melting like a snowflake…
-Francis Bacon
10. We cannot live pleasantly without living wisely and nobly and righteously.
-Epicurus
11. Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?’
-Martin Luther King Jr.
12.Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.
-Brenden Francis
13. Consciousness is only possible through change; change is only possible through movement.
-Aldous Huxley
14. Do everything with a mind that lets go. Do not expect praise or reward.
-Achaan Chah
15. Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it.
– Buddha
16. As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
-Goethe
17. We are never more discontented with others than when we are discontented with ourselves.
-Henri Frederic Arnier
18. Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
-Leonardo da Vinci
19. The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.
-Henry David Thoreau
20. The point of life is happiness.
-The Dalai Lama
21. It is better to live in peace than in bitterness and strife.
-Confucius
22. We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.
-Thornton Wilder
23. Be happy in the moment – that’s enough. Each moment is all we need – not more.
-Mother Teresa
24. Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.
-William Hazlett
25. Without vision, we perish.
-Proverbs
26. The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it.
-Richard Bach
27. You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.
-Mary Oliver
28. If you are anxious you are living in the future. If you are at peace, you are living in the present.
-Lao Tzu
29. Peace is every step.
-Thich Nhat Hahn
30. Let him that would move the world first move himself.
-Socrates
31. Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit. Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever, even if your whole world seems upset.
-Saint Francis de Sales
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