Quotes About Peace

Our science has become terrible, our research dangerous, our findings deadly. We physicists have to make peace with reality. Reality is not as strong as we are. We will ruin reality.

It is inhuman to continue a war which could easily be ended.

It was not delight, not wonder that arose among us, it was the peace of heaven. A thousand times have I said it to her and to myself: the most beautiful is also the most sacred. And such was everything in her. Like her singing, even so was her life.

in the union of nature, loyalty is no dream! We part only to be more intimately at one, more divinely at peace with all, with each other. We die so as to live.

The secret of living in peace with all people lies in the art of understanding each one by his own individuality.

Here the ways of men part: if you wish to strive for peace of soul and pleasure, then believe; if you wish to be a devotee of truth, then inquire

Spengler] made peace with contemporary Germany, not with the Nazis, for I know of no one who hated them as he did, on lying down, in sleeping, and in rising up!

Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.

Friedrich von Logau

We just need to feel we know, or we can't rest. And yet much of life is unknowable and will remain so. Lots

If we can all agree that none of us really knows what God actually is, maybe we can stop fighting about what we imagine God to be.

The only way I know of to get in touch with what God wants is to be very, very, very quiet.

As the French philosopher Blaise Pascal famously said, "All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone." It's a shame that simply being quiet is so difficult for us.

Even if the whole world is nothing but a bunch of jerks doing all kinds of jerk-type things, there is still liberation in simply not being a jerk.

I sincerely believe that someday the world will be a place of peace and plenty because all human beings will have learned to save the world from themselves.

People always get worried about whether they're doing zazen right. But basically if you're doing it at all, you're probably doing it right — even if your thoughts won't stop, even if you're sleepy or irritable, even if it just feels boring.

She loved most being in the woods with the diffused light and the quiet there. Such a stillness, with just the pecking of ground birds and forest animals, the flutter of wings, the occasional skittering of squirrels playing up and down a tree. The silent, imperceptible unfurling of spring buds into blossom. She felt comfortable there. As if nothing could be unnatural in that place, within but apart from the world.

Whereas all her life her mother had more often than not been in conflict not only with others but with herself, her own circumstances, angry about one thing or another, mostly dissatisfied and even resentful of her lot in life, now she seemed to have let that go. But in its stead, there appeared to be nothing. As if she had finally fully burned her ability to care about anything in the long-stoked fire of her discontent. And now she was empty.

Why worry when you have nothing to fear. Why fear when no one else worries.

The solution typically lies in the stillness at the base of mind within that shadowy place most refuse to look.

Never throw the first punch. If you have to throw the second, try to make sure they don't get up for a third.

Joy was more than just an absence of discomfort.

Sometimes Vin imagined she was like the ash, or the wind, or the mist itself. A thing without thought, capable of simply being, not thinking, caring, or hurting. Then she could be...free.

What wonders could be achieved, what progress could be made, if mankind were to permanently set aside its squabblings and join together?