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Quotes about peace, calm and a quiet mind. This hand-picked collection brings together 30 of the finest peace quotes ever written — from Epictetus, Buddha, Rumi and other great voices. Tap Copy on any quote to save or share it.

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

Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.

Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I will meet you there.

— Rumi

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

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

— Buddha

Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.

— Ernest Hemingway

I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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

— Horace

Confine yourself to the present.

— Marcus Aurelius

In summer, the song sings itself — and so does the heart that is at peace.

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

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Your calm mind is the ultimate weapon against your challenges. Relax this weekend.

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

— Rumi

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.

— Lao Tzu

No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.

— Virginia Woolf

In peace, sons bury their fathers. In war, fathers bury their sons.

The ballot is stronger than the bullet.

— Abraham Lincoln

Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.

— Buddha

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

— Winston Churchill

Peace is not the absence of war, but the presence of justice.

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

— Buddha

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

— Bertrand Russell

Animals are born who they are, accept it, and that is that. They live with greater peace than people do.

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

Anger or hatred is like a fisherman's hook. It is very important for us to ensure that we are not caught by it.

— Dalai Lama

Calm mind brings inner strength and self-confidence.

— Dalai Lama

Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.

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