Quotes About Peace

It is very dissipating to be with people too much ... I cannot spare my moonlight and my mountains for the best of man I am likely to get in exchange.

I have come to this hill to see the sun go down, to recover sanity and put myself again in relation with Nature.

How watchful we must be to keep the crystal well that we were made, clear!—that it be not made turbid by our contact with the world, so that it will not reflect objects. What other liberty is there worth having, if we have not freedom and peace in our minds,—if our inmost and most private man is but a sour and turbid pool? Often we are so jarred by chagrins in dealing with the world, that we cannot reflect.

In a pleasant spring morning all men's sins are forgiven.

Os únicos seres felizes no mundo são os que gozam livremente de um vasto horizonte

Nor wars did men molest, When only beechen bowls were in request.

I never found the companion that was so companionable than solitude.

I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual. It is surprising how contented one can be with nothing definite--only a sense of existence.

Não vejo porque um espírito sereno não possa viver com o mesmo contentamento e com pensamentos alegres num asilo ou um palácio

There can be no very black melancholy for him who has his senses still and lives in the midst of nature.

I rejoice that there are owls. Let them do the idiotic and maniacal hooting for men. It

I would rather sit in the open air, for no dust gathers on the grass, unless where man has broken ground.

the very pattering of the drops, and in every sound and sight around my house, an infinite and unaccountable friendliness all at once like an atmosphere sustaining me, as made the fancied advantages of human neighborhood insignificant, and I have never thought of them since.

How, then, could I have a furnished house? I would rather sit in the open air, for no dust gathers on the grass, unless where man has broken ground.

To je bila svetloba, ki si je še trenutke pred tem ne bi mogla predstavljati in tudi zrak je bil tako topel in miren, da bi travnik ne mogel biti bolj nebeški. Ko sva pomislila, da to ni bil osamljen pojav, ki se ne bo zgodil nikoli ve?, temve? da se bo dogajal ve?no, ob nešteto ve?erih, in razsvetljeval ter pomirjal najnovejše otroke, ki bodo hodili tamkaj, se je zdel še veli?astnejši.

I had three pieces of limestone on my desk, but I was terrified to find that they required to be dusted daily, when the furniture of my mind was all undusted still, and I threw them out the window in disgust. How, then, could I have a furnished house? I would rather sit in the open air, for no dust gathers on the grass, unless where man has broken ground.

No encontraréis salud en la sociedad, sino en la naturaleza

I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A

There are none happy in the world but beings who enjoy freely a vast horizon

I doubted if the near neighborhood of man was not essential to a serene and healthy life.

Individuals, like nations, must have suitable broad and natural boundaries, even a considerable neutral ground, between them. I

I have heard it said that one loses a woman by loving her too much, that an affectation of coldness, from time to time, brings better results. And so on. I shall play no such tricks with you … Let love be truly love—that is, let it be peace—or let it not exist at all.

They tell us how much better off economically we all are in war than in peace.

His serenity was but the array of wild flowers niched in his ruin.