Quotes About Peace

It is so freeing to realize that we don't have anything to prove or to protect. We don't have to fix anything. God doesn't need any help. He did fine before we came along and will do fine long after we're gone. The great thing about being a Christian is that you can forgive, love, and encourage 'em all, and then let God sort it out.

When I was a kid, my mom used to run the vacuum cleaner, and the noise would bother me so much that I would run into the woods to calm down. I feel like that vacuum cleaner has been on since I moved to New York City.

The administration had spent $4.5 billion on the 2001 war in Afghanistan, including $390 million just to replace a bomber, a tanker, two helicopters, and two unmanned aerial vehicles that crashed during operations. Yet the administration would not propose to spend even 10 percent of the war's cost on Afghanistan's recovery or to secure the peace with new Afghan forces.

Buddha is not someone you pray to, or try to get something from. Nor is a buddha someone you bow down to. A buddha is simply a person who is awake—nothing more or less.

It was a lesson I had taken most of my life to learn. Sometimes you have to let things go.

There is only one way to get rid of your enemies, and that is turn them into your friends, and the only way possible to turn them into friends is to love them.

I promise you nothing is as chaotic as it seems. Nothing is worth diminishing your health. Nothing is worth poisoning yourself into stress, anxiety, and fear.

The greatest step towards a life of simplicity is to learn to let go.

You must learn to let go. Release the stress. You were never in control anyway.

Attachment is the still water in which the mosquitoes of stress grow."

Being attached to the problems of yesterday or the insecurities of tomorrow will destroy your today."

Free yourself from the complexities of your life! A life of simplicity and happiness awaits you."

Remember that there is an abundance of happiness that can be found in the smallest of places.

Simplify your life. You don't grow spiritual, you shrink spiritual."

Sometimes silence can be the strongest and most compassionate answer."

Security is a feeling of certainty that everything is OK and that all your basic needs will be provided for

We will only be able to live in harmony with our planet, other species and with each other when we are able to live in harmony with ourselves.

Tell yourself that this is the place you're meant to be, at least for now. Let your present situation be your entire world, at least for now. Then you'll sense something far better than the discord of endless desires: the ease and grace of acceptance and the joy of truly being where you are.

The harder you search for happiness turning the world upside down for a legendary treasure that was never there the more you lose touch with the shining source of peace and joy inside you.

Just for a moment let your mind be quiet and see how fears evaporate see how desires withdraw like the claws of an animal that's no longer threatened.

Some people just never seem to let themselves be happy," the sea hag said. "It's like they fight against their own contentment." Was

Puff, at her desk, happily humming to herself.

Xxx there is a certain kind of peace that you find in the middle of a city when you are the only one on the street, and you can hear your footsteps echo on the dry pavement, xxx

What I see is tellin me this world's gone crazy, but, What is real says God's still on His throne, What I need is to remember one thing, that the Lord of the gentle breeze is Lord of the rough and tumble, and he is the King of the jungle.