Quotes About Peace

There are two things that cannot be achieved in life unless you close your eyes a little bit. And that's love and peace. If you want perfection you won't obtain either of them.

Making peace is not a simple endeavor. It is a constant struggle. But its complexity should not overshadow its purpose.

We may soon find that peace is made possible not through negotiation but through innovation.

Whoever of you love life and desire to see many good days, keep your tongue from evil and your lips from telling lies. Seek peace and pursue it.

When Israel was weak, I worked to make her fierce. But once she was strong, I gave my life's efforts to peace.

Peace is a purpose—a goal worthy of the chase, while war is a function—born out of reluctant necessity.

we will need to release terrorists," I wrote one night during the coming drama, "Israel will look like a rag, and even worse, she will be one.

a paz não só é possível, como é inevitável. O otimismo que sinto é função não apenas da minha identidade, mas da História. A História, afinal, é um poderoso antídoto para uma visão cínica do mundo.

Perhaps it is music that will save the world.

Does one really have to fret About enlightenment? No matter what road I travel, I'm going home.

In India, there is a word that means both "cessation" and "satisfaction" as a single linked concept. The word is nirvana.

Each day is peppered with a holy glow.

Often meditation works this way: we measure its value in terms of the suffering that would have happened but didn't—thanks to the fact that we have a practice.

I think it is the responsibility of anyone involved in politics to always think of what Japan can do to contribute more to the peace and stability not just of Japan and the region but of the entire world.

Hitherto, there was a thinking in Japan that it is okay just to look inside Japan in order to secure peace for our own country, not shedding our eyes to the outside world. Of course, this thinking is in the process of changing.

In a world that is deepening its mutual interdependence, inward-focused thinking is no longer able to safeguard the peace of Japan. We will fully defend the lives and assets of our nationals as well as our territory, territorial waters, and territorial airspace in a resolute manner.

I paid a visit to Yasukuni Shrine to pray for the souls of those who had fought for the country and made ultimate sacrifices. I have made a pledge never to wage war again, that we must build a world that is free from the sufferings of the devastation of war.

The famous peace symbol, it is often forgotten, originally came from the semaphore code for N–D, meaning nuclear disarmament.)

If anything interferes with my inner peace, I will walk away. Arguments with family members. All that stuff. None of it matters.

I have continued to come here for that kind of aloneness, so very different from being lonely with someone.

May the stars shine bright above you, May the sun warm you, And the world hold you softly. May your thoughts and needs be as one, For all time

May the stars shine bright above you, May the sun warm you, And the world hold you softly. May your thoughts and needs be as one, For all time, Your joys and conquests as one, In this world and forever. Then all the cats gathered around closer, clowder cats and village cats leaping up on the boulder, purring

Anyway, the thing is that we need to understand that with all — frankly, with all due respect for the requirements of international law, at the end of the day, at the end of the day, a peace process is a political enterprise. And there are things that governments can do and things that they cannot do, because if you do things that leave you without political support, then you can do nothing. You can write poetry, not make peace.

Making peace with suffering shows we have no imagination and little spiritual purpose.