Quotes About Peace

The ideal of calm exists in a sitting cat.

I can't get around this dilemma: I have a horror of troubles, but they whip me up, they make me talented. Peace and well-being, on the contrary, paralyze me. Either be a nobody, or everlastingly plagued.

At the bottom of all patriotism there is war: that is why I am no patriot.

Wir sind nicht einmal in der Lage, eine Familie zu gründen, geschweige denn, uns mit einer Partei zu identifizieren! [...] Wir wollen keine Gemeinschaft. Wir wollen unsere Ruhe.

In greeting each morning remind yourself of Dadirri by blessing yourself with the following; "Let tiny drops of stillness fall gently through my day".

In times of pain, when the future is too terrifying to contemplate and the past too painful to remember, I have learned to pay attention to right now. The precise moment I was in was always the only safe place for me.

There's this rushing sound, like white noise. The sound of nothing.

Out of the strain of the Doing, Into the peace of the Done.

Siempre he pensado que si hay algo que el Todopoderoso no perdonará a los hombres es que maten en su nombre. No se puede imponer la fe con la fuerza de la sangre derramada. A la fe se ha de llegar a través de la razón.

me parece absurdo que los hombres nos peleemos por creer que el Dios al que rezamos es mejor que el Dios de los otros.

Nunca he permitido que ni la tierra ni la religión marcaran mi identidad. Sólo soy un hombre que quiere vivir en paz, no importa dónde.

Sabes, Ahmed?, me parece absurdo que los hombres nos peleemos por creer que el Dios al que rezamos es mejor que el Dios de los otros.

La culpa no es de quien dispara la bala o coloca el explosivo, la culpa es de quien ha provocado la maldita guerra, de quien no va al frente pero envía los hombres a morir.

Cuánto tiempo tendrá que pasar para que nos perdonemos los unos a los otros?

Neither one of you is going to kill, maim, attack, or even hug the other for at least thirty minutes.

I should love to see a ground-glass blue ocean

Just her and the great outdoors. Gwendolyn Margaret Passmore and a million blades of grass.

And then he made haste out the door, making his way to his greenhouse, where he could be alone with his nonspeaking, nonmisbehaving, nonmeddlesome plants.

It's hard to believe that someone is gone when he looks so normal and at peace.

Her life lacked drama and excitement, but she was content.

Anthony felt a rather easy sense of contentment wash over him.

Right here, right now, in this moment, in this garden, you're perfect.

muttering, "Well, at least he's dead, the vexing thing. It's probably

serene off-white candles