Quotes About Peace

Not everything has to be political. You want to heal America? Shut the fuck up for a while.

As we're taught in the Twelve Steps, the chief activator of our defects has been self-centered fear. Mainly fear that we would lose something we already possessed or that we would fail to get something we demanded. Living on the basis of unsatisfied demands, we obviously were in a state of continual disturbance and frustration. Therefore, we are taught, there will be no peace unless we are able to reduce these demands.

How come we play war and not peace? Too few role models.

I think nighttime is dark so you can imagine your fears with less distraction.

There are few things less comforting than a tiger who's been up too late.

I like these cold, gray winter days. Days like these let you savor a bad mood.

Tennis is a perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquility.

But having sailed some time ago Into the quiet cardigan harbour of my life," (42)

As I sat in the hotel room, I realized that in fact I had left my heavenly Father again. By allowing myself to become anxious, I had run off from His comforting Presence. When would I learn that I cannot worry and trust God at the same time! I relaxed in my chair and felt at peace again. "Oh, thank You, Father," I said weeping in relief. "Please forgive me for stepping away from You. You are here, You are in that hall. I'll be all right.

By allowing myself to become anxious, I had run off from His comforting Presence. When would I learn that I cannot worry and trust God at the same time! I relaxed in my chair and felt at peace again.

All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit quiet in a room alone.

And is it not obvious that, just as it is a crime to disturb the peace when truth reigns, it is also a crime to remain at peace when the truth is being destroyed?

Men seek rest in a struggle against difficulties; and when they have conquered these, rest becomes insufferable.

All human evil comes from a single cause, man's inability to sit still in a room.

All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.

All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.

All of human unhappiness comes from one single thing: not knowing how to remain at rest in a room.

I have discovered that all the unhappiness of men arises from one single fact, that they cannot stay quietly in their own chamber.

I have often said that the sole cause of man's unhappiness is that he does not know how to stay quietly in his room.

They prefer death to peace, others prefer death to war. Any opinion can be preferred to life, which it seems so natural to love dearly.

We seek rest in a struggle against some obstacles. And when we have overcome these, rest proves unbearable because of the boredom it produces...

If our state were really happy, we should not need to take our minds off it in order to make ourselves happy.

I have often said the soul cause of man's unhappiness is that he does not know how to stay quietly in a room. (Page 32)

We must sit by these rivers, not under or in them, but above, not standing upright, but sitting down, so that we remain humble by sitting, and safe by remaining above.