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"You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf." - Jon Kabat-Zinn

Desiderata

"If it is peace you want, seek to change yourself, not other people. It is easier to protect your feet with slippers than to carpet the whole of the earth." - Anthony De Mello

"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

When you eat, eat. When you sleep, sleep. - Buddha

Our future circumstances and our future peace of mind will be, in part, a result of the decisions we take today."

"My greatest wealth is the deep stillness in which I strive and grow and win what the world cannot take from me with fire and sword." - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

There is strength, not weakness, in peace.

Keeping a sense of balance in our lives is part of what keeps us grounded in the face of adversity and strengthens our peaceful core.

"Be" peaceful now. See how, by focusing on it as desired way of being, you can alter your mindset.

"... we have the choice - to contribute to peace or not. It is up to each one of us, each individual, to generate strength through peace, to instigate peace, to choose peaceful means over conflict or quarrel."

"There is peace even in the storm." - Vincent Van Gogh

Peace of mind is not the absence of conflict in life, but the ability to cope with it.

'The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.'
RUSSELL