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Calm mind brings inner strength and self-confidence.

— Dalai Lama

You have power over your mind — not outside events. Realise this, and you will find strength.

— Marcus Aurelius

Remember, when life's path is steep, to keep your mind even.

— Horace

War does not determine who is right — only who is left.

— Bertrand Russell

He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Sleep is the best meditation.

— Dalai Lama

If a problem is fixable, if a situation is such that you can do something about it, then there is no need to worry.

— Dalai Lama

Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.

— Buddha

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.

— Mother Teresa

To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.

— Winston Churchill

A happy life consists in tranquillity of mind.

— Cicero

Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.

— Albert Einstein

Seek not that the things which happen should happen as you wish; but wish the things which happen to be as they are.

— Epictetus

Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.

— Buddha

With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things.

— William Wordsworth

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.

— Buddha

I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.

— Epictetus

Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.

— Buddha

The ballot is stronger than the bullet.

— Abraham Lincoln

To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.

— Lao Tzu

When the soul lies down in that grass, the world is too full to talk about.

— Rumi

Peace in the heart is the natural state of the soul.

— Buddha

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