Quotes About Peace

I passed to my room and went to be, and, strange to say, slept without dreaming. despair has it's own calms.

I love the shade and the shadow, and would be alone with my thoughts when I may.

Friend John, it does rejoice me unspeakable that she is no more to be pained, no more to be worried with our terrible things. Though we shall much miss her help, it is better so.

Despair has its own calm.

The very basis of true peace of mind is a benevolent wish to see all the world as happy as one's Self; and from my soul do I pity the selfish churl, who, remembering the little bickerings of anger, envy, and fifty other disagreeables to which frail mortality is subject, would wish to revenge the affront which pride whispers him he has received.

Understanding demands silence.

La comprensión exige silencio.

I've found that it's easier to be pleasant when there's less need to be so.

On nights like this, when he rode out from the dark, silent house to the dark, deserted park, he could forget. He could be nothing but a solitary rider on a fast horse, wind in his face and the world open around him. No walls, no bars, no quiet weeping or screams or death. None of that could catch him. On a night like this, none of it could find him.

Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself.

Give your body and mind to worldly enjoyments, and the world will destroy them both. Devote them to God and his service, and you will enjoy bodily health, peace of mind, and spiritual joy.

SELF-SURRENDER IS THE HIGHEST AND EASIEST method for enlightenment. One who has surrendered himself is always protected by the divine power. One who possesses nothing and has no one to protect him belongs to God and is constantly under the protection of the Divine.

God presents the Sabbath rest as a shelter we can enter. (Hebrews 4:1-11)

Wholeness feels like gratitude. Gratitude that we are safe and happy and together. And for that, I must thank equally the foxes and the weasels, the tigers and the crocodiles. For the peace of the barnyard, I am grateful to the dangers and jaws of the jungle. For the belonging that is home, I can thank, in part, the exile that is travel. Though they seem like opposites, they are more like twins—two halves of a whole.

We live in a cruel world, Isabel, he says, without looking at me. I am only a man, and will not always live up to your expectations. And to me, that is a painful reality. But we must never be cruel to one another. Let there be peace between us.

If a man is as wise as a serpent, he can afford to be as harmless as a dove—Cheyenne

Besides, what more effective way to put every phony "reincarnated messiah" out of business—and believe me, more and more of them will be cropping up as this century progresses—than to say, and mean, "I've stopped looking for Jesus 'out there,' because I have the peace of knowing he's already right here.

beside a waterfall in the unspeakably beautiful gardens of the Hall of Justice, where God and I, eternally connected, are alone together in the peace that only comes from the most exquisite unconditional love

I crawled into his lap, sighing happily when he shifted me into a spot that felt made for me. Every peaceful moment we had with each other was treasured. Gideon deserved the respite, and I longed to be that for him. His lips touched my forehead. "You okay, angel mine?" "I'm in your arms. Life doesn't get better than this.

Today she would like to be alone in the sea: at ease in the water, letting herself go, without anyone calling her from the shore, without spectacular rescues. Simply in the water, with the violent sea she misses because she needs it more and more. Schedules disappeared during those vacations or were so radically modified that the rhythm they marked was almost her own. Lunch was not at one but at three; dinner not at nine but at eleven.

I didn't want any flowers, I only wanted to lie with my hands turned up and be utterly empty. How free it is, you have no idea how free.

Ever since I was small I loved feeling somebody comb my hair. It made me go all sleepy and peaceful.

I want to be able to sleep in an open field, to travel west, to walk freely at night...

If I didn't think, I'd be much happier.