Quotes About Peace

enveloping her in the peace that comes from knowing your own powerlessness.

In a multi-racial society, trust, understanding and tolerance are the cornerstones of peace and order.

Life punishes us for forgetting when we should remember, sleeping when we should be awake. As we sleep – a metaphor for unconscious living and lack of awareness – black snakes of negative, hurtful thoughts and feelings slither into our bodies and our brains, multiply due to our lack of attention, and wreak havoc with our peace. Looking at it another way, we all house black snakes in our bodies and minds that only suffering can bring to consciousness and expel.

Aquel que busca ayuda se convierte en esclavo y el que se da a los demás queda prisionero de su propio afecto, El que acata las reglas de este mundo sufre en consecuencia, pero el que no lo hace se nos presenta como un loco. Donde sea que vivamos y hagamos lo que hagamos, ¿es posible acaso que por un solo instante hallemos cómo descansar nuestro cuerpo y cómo apaciguar nuestro corazón?

Reality depends upon your mind alone.[34] If your mind is not at peace what use are riches?

Idet jeg kender mig selv og verden, har jeg ingen ambitioner og blander mig ikke i verden. Jeg søger kun sindsro og fred og jeg glædes over fravær af sorger.

Men of means have much to fear. Those with none know only bitterness. If you entrust yourself to the care of others you will be owned by them. If you care for others you will be enslaved by your own solicitude. If you conform to the world it will bind you hand and foot. If you do not, then it will think you mad. And so the question, where should we live? And how? Where to find a place to rest a while? And how to bring even short-lived peace to our hearts?

A relationship of peace is a relationship that is more parallel than perpendicular. It is two individuals that move side by side. Rather than two individuals that intersect. A maintenance of individuality and freedom results in the prevalence of peace.

If you are serious about living a peaceful life, drop all matters pertaining to the world, and pursue all matters pertaining to yourself.

Man does not seek world peace. He seeks self-peace.

One can live the whole of his life within it. It is way to accessing the whole of one's genius. It is the way to unending peace. It is the holy grail of human existence.

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

beautiful koi named Big Sneeze told me, "The wisdom we all seek lies within our own hearts. Inner beauty knows no limits, inner peace no boundaries. The lines between human and animal sometimes blur as the soul progresses and realizes its full potential.

Simplicity and serenity are close friends of minimalism.

Intemperance and intolerance serve no one, and hatred guarantees failure.

Intolerance is alien to Hinduism.

I think that quiet lends itself to that kind of in-your-own-head introspection.

We have invented a new human right here - the right to return home after a war.

Learning to meditate is one of my earliest memories. I started when I was maybe three or four. I mean, I didn't know I was meditating. I just thought it was a weird game my dad had invented.

If the U.N. didn't exist, we'd be inventing it right now.

Simply to have peace brings huge investment.

When I am writing, my problems become invisible and I am the same person I always was. All is well. I am as I should be.

He who avoids complaint invites happiness.

Sometimes I would make myself very still and try to imagine myself dead. I tried to invoke the feeling of the very last breath I would take.