Quotes About Peace

Words can be the tonic that kills regrets before they have a chance to grow.

There's never a better time to be that person than when you're in a relationship that you want to become a source of peace and productivity rather than anger and regret.

true peace is found in the heart that carefully remains in God's daily provision and love.

It would be time for you to start drawing up peace treaties with your former enemies.

Imagine yourself being happy, unburdened, and filled with joy. That is how God wants you to be. 'Give all your worries and cares to God, for he cares about.' (1 Peter 5:7 NLT).

Making peace with someone is not a goal. It's a journey.

In truth, Lincoln tried not to carry personal resentments. "A man has not time to spend half his life in quarrels," he said.

Gandhi insisted upon returning love for hatred and respect for contempt.

Just let go of all the rest of the day, now. Let all of your worries roll off your shoulders; let's just enjoy being home in the body for the next hour and a half.

For the sake of God, boy, let go of all this obsessive worry and fretting. You are powerless over such a mess." (Quote from Father Bede)

A central pillar of his later teaching was that fearlessness is a prerequisite for nonviolence.

He began to practice the mantra, chanting Rama, Rama, Rama over and over again to himself—both aloud and silently. The mantra eased his fear—

Gandhi: The Essential Writings. Oxford University Press: London, 2008

He who devotes himself" M. K. Gandhi. Non-Violent Resistance Satyagraha. Dover Publications: Mineola, New York, 2001

Eknath Easwaran. Gandhi the Man. Nilgiri Press: Novales, California, 1997

Louis Fischer. Gandhi: His Life and Message for the World. Signet Classics: New York, 2010

It's a wonderful phrase. Gandhi's meaning was simple: Only the human being who acts in a way that is empty of self can be the instrument of Soul Force. And it is only Soul Force that can establish a harmonious world. Human beings alone are helpless to resolve conflicts without it.

But ahimsa is more than just the absence of violence: It is the presence of justice and of love. Gandhi always made it perfectly clear that "the satyagrahi's object is to convert, not to coerce, the wrongdoer.

Free from self-will, aggressiveness, arrogance, anger, and the lust to possess people or things, he is at peace with himself and others and enters into the unitive state. United with Brahman, ever joyful, beyond the reach of desire and sorrow, he has

Sometimes, the most profound of awakenings come wrapped in the quietest of moments.

I was calm, no one wants the kind of calm I was.

We know how to win wars. We must learn now to win peace...

Star Trek] It has given us a legacy-a message-man can create a future worth living for.... a future that is full of optimism, hope, excitement, and challenge. A future that proudly proclaims man's ability to survive in peace and reach for the stars as his reward. ... We have its legacy...all we have to do is use it.

Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.