Quotes About Peace

The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.

I try to plant peace if I do not want discord; to plant loyalty and honesty if I want to avoid betrayal and lies.

Thus we lived through a major war. The questions in the ghettos was, can we make it through a minor peace?

Not every negative situation can be solved with a threat of violence. Trust you brain to suggest a solution, then have the courage to follow through.

Fall gently, snowflakes Cover me with white Cold icy kisses and Let me rest tonight.

You cannot be consistently fair or just or kind or generous or loving without courage. It is time for you to decide privately, secretly, in your own place inside yourselves, what you will do. You have to come to peace with a peaceful heart.

I hoped the memory of that morning would never leave me. Sunlight was itself still young, and the day had none of the insistence maturity would bring it in a few hours. In my robe and barefoot in the backyard, under cover of going to see about my new beans, I gave myself up to the gentle warmth and thanked God that no matter what evil I had done in my life He had allowed me to live to see this day.

It's one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody.

Peace means when there is conflict, use our common sense and our compassion to consider rest of humanity, our human brothers and sisters.

In our joy, we think we hear a whisper. At first it is too soft. Then only half heard. We listen carefully as it gathers strength. We hear a sweetness. The word is Peace. It is loud now. Louder than the explosion of bombs.

Your smile, delicate rumor of peace.

In the evening, when we were alone like that, Uncle Willie didn't stutter or shake or give any indication that he had an affliction. It seemed that the peace of a day's ending was an assurance that the covenant God made with children, Negroes and the crippled was still in effect.

If I interrupted violence, by all means I'll step back. Always nice to see bloodshed first thing in the a.m.

Learn to relax.

he'd know that I think that . . . well, that bending an enemy's will through military force is the absolute last way a nation ought to go about solving their problems.

What's wrong? Nothing, I said. Because nothing was wrong. For the first time in my entire life, it seemed, everything was suddenly, fantastically right.

Maybe this is how wars get started, because someone tells someone else to shut up, and then no one will apologize.

Gina, I noticed, slipped automatically into the front passenger seat. Apparently, she didn't believe that when Sleepy had told us all to shut up, he meant her, too, since she went, How about we stop somewhere for ice cream on the way home? She was trying, I knew, to get me to not be mad at her. As if a chocolate-dipped twist would help. Actually, it sort of would, now that I thought about it.

She frowned at him. 'You are in love with solitude.' 'Is there a better cure for the world than solitude?

I guess there was a war going on somewhere in the world that night but it wasn't one that could touch us.

If every person living strove to create something beautiful, mightn't we brighten the world enough so that all could see the path to peace?

There is only one rule about violence. Do whatever you must do to make it stop.

There are a lot of things a person with two hands couldn't steal, Eddis said. So? If it's impossible to steal them with two hands, it's no more impossible to steal them with one. Steal peace, Eugenides. Steal me some time.

Irene- Don't call me that. You were the princess Irene the first time we met. It means 'peace', Attolia said. What name could be more inappropriate? That I be named Helen? Eddis suggested. The hard lines in Attolia's face eased, and she smiled. Eddis was a far cry from the woman whose beauty had started a war.