Quotes About Peace

I use the word to mean a natural state of peace and clarity.

As I often say, if you argue with reality, you lose—but only 100 percent of the time.

Forgiveness is discovering that what you thought happened, didn't—that there was never anything to forgive

You can argue with the way things are. You'll lose, but only 100% of the time.

Whose business are my children? Their business! When we're mentally out of our children's business, we have a shot at happiness, and so do they, because finally there's an example in the house.

A certain peace had come over me. I was discovering that time, long-term time made of days, weeks and months, and not of horrific moments as before, was operating in my favor. Nothing else was, but that didn't worry me. Time was enough. I clung on to time, and consequently to learning, the only human activity that makes time our ally.

Hati yang penuh dengan kebencian tidak akan pernah mengenal kata puas. Kebencian adalah bara api kejam yang menghabiskan energi orang yang menghidupinya.

Fanatics on both sides,' old Ryprose said gloomily. 'And all we poor ordinary folk in the middle. Sometimes I fear they will bring death to us all.

And if you can't shape your life the way you want, at least try as much as you can not to degrade it by too much contact with the world, by too much activity and talk. Try not to degrade it by dragging it along, taking it around and exposing it so often to the daily silliness of social events and parties, until it comes to seem a boring hanger-on.

Transcendental Meditation

It's every individual's responsibility to find his own peace – you can't expect any sort of retribution, or believe that it will be delivered some day.

Peace is a product of both patience and persistence.

Worry in the dark can make it even darker.

When you're alone, it's easier, she said a little wistfully. You can do what you want. You don't have to go home.

I have this theory: If you forgive someone, they can't hurt you anymore.

there was no anger in his voice,no disappointment even.

So for a while, they sat peacefully in the swamp, listening to Mrs. Starch hum while the little panther slurped happily and the emerald leaves overhead shimmered and shook in the sunlight.

Wouldn't it be a treat, Chaz thought, to have just one goddamn day when nobody fucked with my head?

The vista from atop the poinciana was timeless and serene—a long string of egrets crossing the distant 'glades; a squadron of white pelicans circling a nearby bay; a pair of ospreys hovering kitelike above a tidal creek. It was a perfect picture and a perfect silence.

Radiance unrelenting— no peace, no shadow, no shelter now—

National boundaries are not evident when we view the Earth from space. Fanatical ethnic or religious or national chauvinisms are a little difficult to maintain when we see our planet as a fragile blue crescent fading to become an inconspicuous point of light against the bastion and citadel of the stars.

For me, the most ironic token of [the first human moon landing] is the plaque signed by President Richard M. Nixon that Apollo 11 took to the moon. It reads: We came in peace for all Mankind. As the United States was dropping 7 ½ megatons of conventional explosives on small nations in Southeast Asia, we congratulated ourselves on our humanity. We would harm no one on a lifeless rock.

An organism at war with itself is doomed.

If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another.