Quotes About Peace

Peace is not only the absence of conflict but the presence of Love.

All that matters is not remote from where the Buddha sits.

What did Shakespeare say? Or little lives are rounded with a sleep.

La mente puesta en la carne es muerte, pero la mente puesta en el espíritu es vida y paz.

Andrew, who, in the wry of certain gods, couldn't care less about human squabblings; who literally fails to understand them. There are all these fruits, there's water and sky, there's enough for everyone, what could you possibly have to argue about?

Peace was not the absence of conflict; it was having the courage to face the conflict and make the right choices.

Don't let it worry you,' she said. 'And don't worry about tomorrow morning. Go your way. Everything is just as it should be. Good night, my darling boy.

I should say that happiness is being where one is and not wanting to be anywhere else.

Who can free himself from achievementAnd from fame,Descend and be lostAmid the masses of men?He will flow like the Tao, unseen.Such is the perfect man: His boat is empty.

Anyway, you couldn't use standard methods to date the doom; might as well say that Vietnam was where the Trail of Tears was headed all along, the turnaround point where it would touch and come back to form a containing perimeter; might just as well lay it on the proto-Gringos who found the New England woods too raw and empty for their peace and filled them up with their own imported devils.

An ethnic minority can live in peace with an ethnic majority as long as the majority does not use its preponderance to turn the institutions of the state into an instrument of ethnic favoritism or ethnic justice.

The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting. —Sun-tzu

And sometimes, when a lot has happened in your life, much of it inexplicable, silence is what you need to say the most.

It takes thousands of bullets to kill an army but one to end a war.

Don't stay with someone who drives you crazy. Find someone who keeps you sane.

One evening, after he'd read a piece about yet another savagery in Bosnia, I saw there were tears in his eyes. 'Don't it ever stop?' he said. 'I can mind Father telling that there'd be no more wars, not after his one. It shames me. It shames all of us. What's the good in reading, if that's all there is to read about?

When people make wars, they make refugees.

As he did so, he held out his other hand in a gesture of friendship and reconciliation, a smile lighting he worn face. 'In an hour, maybe, or two,' he said, 'we will be trying our best again each other to kill. God only knows why we do it, and I think he has maybe forgotten why. Goodbye Welshman. We have shown them, haven't we? We have shown them that any problem can be solved between people if only they can trust each other. That is all it needs, no?

our home should be an oasis of peace and harmony for us in a troubled world

Death, I discovered that day, is not frightening, because it is utterly still. And it is still because death, when it comes, is always over. There's only terror in it if you fear it and ever since my first death, Wes' death, I have never feared it. It is simply the end of a story, and if you've loved the story then it is sad. And sometimes, as it was with Wes, it is an agony of sadness.

Why does this war have to destroy anything and everything that's fine and beautiful?

Death, I discovered that day, is not frightening, because it is utterly still.

You know it is the most relaxed thing when you when you sit with a best friend and you know there is nothing you have to tell him to empty your mind. We just stayed there together, silent in the dusk like this, and we were quite happy.

To rest was to receive all aspects of the world without judgement.