Quotes About Peace

Under the sky, under the heavens there is but one family.

There is "what is" only when there is no comparing and to live with "what is" is to be peaceful.

Zen insists that the whole trouble is just our failure to realize that there is no problem.

Anxiety. — Anxiety is the gap between the NOW and the THEN. So if you are in the NOW, you can't be anxious, because your excitement flows immediately into ongoing spontaneous activity.

What is true stillness? Stillness in movement.

One of the best lessons you can learn in life is to master how to remain calm. Calm is a super power.

It is better to be a warrior in a garden than a gardener in a war.

It's better to be a warrior in a garden than to be a gardener in a war

Such people, one soldier acidly observed, certainly "would like" to see the Confederacy triumph "and no doubt weary heaven with their prayers for peace and independence." But they prayed at least as fervently "to get through with whole skins and full purses.

Sometimes I think that the only way to unite the nations of the world would be for the earth to be attacked by Mars. We'd all love each other like hell then.

You can't kill your way to security and you can't lead by scaring people.

cause down the shore everything's all right

It would not all be easy sailing from here on, but modern pharmacological medicine gave my father ten extra years of life and a peace he might never have had. He and my mother got to celebrate their fiftieth wedding anniversary. He got to know his grandchildren and we became much closer. He became easier to reach, to know and love.

War as Napoleon knew it just not possible any more. However, we're very unlikely to accept or recognize 'world peace' even when we get it.

Pacifism is the transitory luxury of a people whose security has been earned by the bravery and militarism of earlier generations.

nothing trite in SNCC's founding statement: "Through nonviolence, courage displaces fear; love transforms hate. Acceptance dissipates prejudice, hope ends despair. Peace dominates war, faith reconciles doubt.

love transforms hate. Acceptance dissipates prejudice, hope ends despair. Peace dominates war, faith reconciles doubt.

Ruben liked the shadows. They kept him safe.

Bitterness is the acid that eats its own container.

Forgiveness is the ocean that already surrounds us when we launch our prayers of repentance to God. We do not manufacture the ocean by our repentance; we sail in the peace its boundless waters provide.

But I do like to have peace and quiet for a good hour.

You can never get silence anywhere nowadays, have you noticed?

A belief in immortality not only consoles the individual, but it exerts a powerful influence in bringing peace between individuals. If one actually thinks that man dies as the brute dies, he will yield more easily to the temptation to do injustice to his neighbor when the circumstances are such as to promise security from detection. But if one really expects to meet again, and live eternally with those whom he knows today, he is restrained from evil deeds by the fear of endless remorse.

The ability to forgive is one of man's greatest achievements.