Quotes About Peace

Imagine repeating the power words 'love' or 'happiness' for five minutes twice a day for the rest of your life, amazing things could happen.

The peace that resides in you will express itself only when you free all the fears and doubts you have in your mind.

One way you can trace your way back to real and true happiness and joy is through forgiveness.

If we studied the issue of forgiveness with a wider perspective, we are bound to opt for it after all.

Take a walk through the garden of forgiveness and pick a flower of forgiveness for everything you have ever done.

Distancing yourself from some painful event is probably the ignition for the process of forgiveness.

You get used to the brain being squeezed. At nighttime in the darkness of your emptiness, it seems to swell back up and gives you some peace. In the darkness even the pain is not so bad. A bruise heals. (Time is the treatment.) But it's your mind that's tortured. Your thoughts are in turmoil and despair. Feelings of awesome revenge and destruction manifest themselves.

All the resentment that lies in your heart is simply causing damage to you mostly.

My experience of what can happen and what actually happens is a world apart, so stop worrying!

Your forgiveness or failure to forgive simply takes you nearer or further away from your ultimate goal. There are no two ways to deal with it, there is only one.

When you forgive, you are freed from some of the feelings of disapproval and it can contribute to lessening your negative thoughts.

When you forgive, you immerse yourself in healing waters.

The growth and improvement of New York was a wonderful example of the vast and irrevocable benefits reaped by the English empire during the four years when England was at peace and her rivals were at war. Yet in every other English colony, from the Carolinas northward, the immeasurable disasters of the great Algonquin wars set colonial development back by more than thirty years. New York alone was spared. New York alone had Andros.

The mission before us as ambassadors is to assure peace among, as it were, the diplomatic corps of fellow ambassadors. Thus we are to walk in lowliness (humility) and meekness, which foster longsuffering and enable us to forbear one another in love.

We are belabored by the insistence on the part of our politicians, businessmen and military leaders, and the claque of scriveners who serve them, that 'growth' and 'power' are intrinsic goods, of which we can never have enough, or even too much. As if gigantism were an end in itself. As if a commendable rat were a rat twelve hands high at the shoulders — and still growing. As if we could never have peace on this planet until one state dominates all others [Edward Abbey].

Our earth is but a small star in a great universe. Yet of it we can make, if we choose, a pane unvexed by war, untroubled by hunger or fear, undivided by senseless distinctions of race, color, or theory.

For ever... well... it droops the mouth. Till I Look up. There's one blue patch no smoke dares touch. Sky, clear, ineffable, alive with light, Always the same... Before, I never knew Rest and green peace.

Nothing is ever gained by allowing anger to have sway. When under its influence we lose the ability to think clearly and the forceful power that is in calmness. -Laura Ingalls Wilder: As A Farm Woman Thinks (3) (November 15, 1921).

Anger is a destroying force. What all the world needs is its opposite-- an uplifting power. -Laura Ingalls Wilder, As A Farm Woman Thinks (3) (November 1,1921).

Death is Peaceful, Life is Harder

We were probably as happy as anyone can be in our world.

If there is a God, the phrase that must disgust him is "holy war".

without fear, we'd have no need for religion or war.

Ted, calm down—