"World peace must develop from inner peace. Peace is not the absence of violence; peace is the manifestation of human compassion." 

-Dalai Lama XIV

"Forgiveness is not always easy. At times, it feels more painful than the wound we suffered, to forgive the one that inflicted it. And yet, there is no peace without forgiveness." 

-Marianne Williamson

"When you enter deeply into this moment, you see the nature of reality, and this insight liberates you from suffering and confusion. Peace is already there to some extent: the problem is whether we know how to touch it." 

-Thich Nhat Hanh

"One cannot find peace in work or in pleasure, in the world or in a convent, but only in one's soul." 
-William Somerset Maugham

“When you find peace and quiet in the midst of busyness and clamor, then towns and cities become mountain forests; afflictions are enlightenment, sentient beings realize true awakening.”
-Foyan

"I realized that maybe you can't change the world by your actions alone, but you can change yourself. And when you did, the world around you might also change in the very act of attempting to understand you, just as we all try to understand each other." 
-Dr. John Francis

"Uncertainty is the only certainty there is, and knowing how to live with insecurity is the only security"
-John Allen Paulos

"Intense love does not measure it just gives." 

-Mother Theresa

"The world is like a mirror, you see? Smile, and your friends smile back."
-Zen Proverb

“And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.”
-Thomas Stearns Eliot

“God is a synergetic experience. Science can never reveal it, philosophy can never come to it – only a poetic approach, a very passive, very loving approach, can.” 
-Osho

“A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.” 
-Aesop

"You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child." 
-Dogen Zenji

"Can your solicitude alter the cause or unravel the intricacy of human events?" 
-Hugh Blair

“Feelings, whether of compassion or irritation, should be welcomed, recognized, and treated on an absolutely equal basis; because both are ourselves. The tangerine I am eating is me. The mustard greens I am planting are me. I plant with all my heart and mind. I clean this teapot with the kind of attention I would have were I giving the baby Buddha or Jesus a bath. Nothing should be treated more carefully than anything else. In mindfulness, compassion, irritation, mustard green plant, and teapot are all sacred.”

-Thich Nhat Hanh

"To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one's own in the midst of abundance." 
-Buddha

"Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn." 
-Miguel de Cervantes

"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

“When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure.”

-Peter Marshall 

“I am flawed, if I'm not free.” 

-Rilo Kiley